E natural. All knowing ears will be cocked to know whether you play correctly e natural or the erroneous e-flat. (Paraphrased from Ernest Hutcheson)
Dear Orlando: It's a C-minor chord. There no possible doubt about it.
: - E natural: Rubinstein, Cortot, Pollini, Perlemuter;
Btw what follows this chord is surely not an a-flat, but a D7 chord.
We have an a flat octave followed by an a flat chord in the RH with an e flat playd with the thumb, so possibly a flat second inversion, anyway the chord that follows this is D flat. So we have C minor - Aflat major - Dflat major. Unless you have a good explenation my blood pressure is going to go up.
The chord you are describing is the 1st beat of the 2nd measure. Get your facts right.
Cortot is my favorite Chopin player, so you can emagin that i have him playing the preludes on a CD, am 100% sure he plays a C minor chord (...)(...) can anyone provide us with a Rubenstine or pollini recording please?
WAW, just heard the Cortot interpretation, and he plays C major (...)(...) I think i will go and jump of a tall building.