No.3 in A-flat major from 'Trois Nouvelles Etudes'. Today is day 12 of learning it from scratch.

Hi all, tempted to choose both the Scherzo 2 and Ballade 1, pieces that I've worked on a long time ago, and only been brushing up again recently. 

Due to work demands, my time spent on the piano has been very sporadic, but still necessary to keep those musical dreams and passions alive. :) So in recently exploring the intriguing AI Pathways in Tonebase, I'm excited to see how this journey will unfold a month or two later!

Fantaisie, op.49, f minor.  In my mind, this is an underrated and underplayed masterpiece.  I'VE certainly underplayed it, so now's the time to make amends.  It contains a lot of magic.

I am driven to Chopin's Em, Op. 28, No.4.  When I hear this piece, I think of a man who had emphysema.  His lungs whistled as they struggled to breathe and his heart was beating irregularly.  As I listened, rather horrified because I could do nothing, nothing was synchronized, nothing was regular.   It seemed his heart and lungs wanted to get along with each other, but the lungs could not keep up, throwing the heart into a frenzy, hoping the lungs would kick in.  Death neared.  For me, the treble line sounds like his respiration, and the bass clef represents his heart.  Given Chopin’s medical problems, I wonder if this piece doesn’t represent what he was medically experiencing.  I always think of this man when I play this piece.  He had full awareness of what his heart and lungs were doing, with a wish to live and a wish to die, as the panic set in. 

I think the piece needs to be played to produce as much dissonance as possible.    

If we're permitted to pick a piece that's not on the initial list, I'd like to do Op. 10 No. 4. I can play through it, but it needs a lot more speed and accuracy. I want to use it to help practice maintaining a good hand position, particularly for my left hand.