Chopin Prelude 28.4 "Suffocation"

[tiago3m]

Hi, I'd love to hear your opinion on my Chopin Prelude nº4 interpretation. Is one of my favorites

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Thanks

[birba]

"Suffocation"?  Where the .... do these titles come from?!
Nice playing, though.

[j_menz]

"Suffocation"?  Where the .... do these titles come from?!

In this instance, Hans von Bulow.

[birba]

OMG!

[j_menz]

OMG!

Now you know why Cosima left. 

[tiago3m]

Yes! Hans von Bülow. You see in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludes_(Chopin)

Thank you "birba".

Cosima? I don't understand

[virtuoso80]

I can't tell you how much I hate these names people apply to these pieces. They make amazing profound music into one-dimensional expressions of frivolity. For example, I've always loved Etude Op. 10, No. 4, and when I first heard 'baby tigers playing', or whatever somebody wanted to attach to it, I thought, "how disgustingly limiting."

[tiago3m]

I agree with you. But sometimes I like those names. At other times I hate them. The names given by Hans von Bülow allowed me to look at some preludes from a new perspective. But yes, 'baby tigers playing' for this study is a sad idea.

I liked "suffocating". Any feeling in all its fullness becomes suffocating when I hear this prelude.

[birba]

Yes! Hans von Bülow. You see in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludes_(Chopin)

Thank you "birba".

Cosima? I don't understand

I didn't understand at first because i thought he meant costicina!  Cosima was an illigitimate daughter of liszt who married bulow.   She left him for wagner.  Can't say i blame her...