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Updated: May 5, 2025
In a few weeks you will receive a Ballade, a Polonaise, and a Scherzo. Until now I have not yet received any letters from my parents. I embrace you. Sometimes I have Arabian balls, African sun, and always before my eyes the Mediterranean Sea. I do not know when I shall be back, perhaps as late as May, perhaps even later. Madame Sand to Madame Marliani; Valdemosa, January 15, 1839:
The critic tries to analyse the master's style of execution a "mode" in which "delicacy, picturesqueness, elegance, and humour are blended so as to produce that rare thing, a new delight" pointing out his peculiar fingering, treatment of scale and shake, tempo rubato, &c. Along with other compositions of his, Chopin played on this occasion his Scherzo in B flat and his Etude in C sharp minor.
Scherzo, Adagio, and Finale of the Sonata in G minor, for piano and violoncello, composed by M. Chopin, and performed by the author and M. Franchomme. Air nouveau from Robert le Diable, composed by M. Meyerbeer, sung by M. Roger. Preludes, | | Mazurkas, | composed and performed by M. Chopin. | Valse, | Accompanists: MM. Aulary and de Garaude.
The trio opens with fire, the scherzo is fanciful, and the adagio charming, while the finale is cheerful to loveliness. It might figure occasionally on the programmes of our chamber music concerts, despite its youthful puerility. There remain the two concertos, which I do not intend discussing fully.
Among the numbers were a Beethoven sonata, entire; Chopin's Ballade in A flat major; Cesar Franck, Prelude, Fugue and Variations; a Mozart Fantaisie; Grieg Concerto, first movement; Weber's Concertstück, and Chopin's Scherzo in E. The recital was most instructive from an educational point of view.
And so the return to the vigorous rough dance is the more refreshing. The merry mood yields to a darker temper. "Wild" the strings rush in angry fugue on their rapid phrase; the quaint theme is torn to shreds, recalling the fierce tempest of earlier symphony. But the first sad note of the Scherzo is in the recitative of horn, after the lull.
Dull brooding chords bring a sombre play of the awing phrase, over a faint rocking motion, clashing in bold harmony, while the horns surge in broader melody. The climactic clash ends in a last verse of the opening phrase, as of primal, religious chant. II. Scherzo.
There are three great divisions, of which the first comprises a Funeral March, and an untitled Allegro in vehement motion. The second division has merely the single movement, Scherzo. In the third are an Adagietto and a Rondo Finale. Funeral March.
Of a sudden, after a lull, falls again the tinkle of sacred chimes, with a verse each of the two main melodies. The Scherzo begins with a Saltarello humor, as of airy faun, with a skipping theme ever accompanied by a lower running phrase and a prancing trip of strings, with a refrain, too, of chirruping woodwind. Later the skipping phrase gains a melodic cadence.
Thane's fingers moved with scherzo speed as he fed twelve adjustments to the fire control. He let go with everything they had on the port side, and switched off the guns, in preparation for the shummer. It came almost simultaneously, and the pirate disappeared as they went into the hyper-space of the warp-line. There was no time to see if any damage had been done.
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