Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor

Track: Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor

This is the discussion thread for Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor (Lento con gran espressione) — ask anything here as you work through it.

This Track walks through the opening chord voicing, the singing main theme and its ornaments (trills, grace notes, written rubato), the stormy middle section with its mazurka-like turn, and the ornamented return and coda.

This piece lives and dies on rubato and voicing — if you're wrestling with how much freedom to take in a phrase, how to bring out the melody over the accompaniment, or how to approach the grace notes and trills, this is the place to ask.

Picking this one back up after a break? Tell us which section you stalled on — the middle section trips up a lot of people, and it's an easy thing to get unstuck on with the right nudge.