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You didn't
like my interpretation.
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-We all have our own.
-Exactly. I want to know yours.
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-You're cross.
-No, I'm upset. You won't tell me your idea
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of this prelude.
-All right, if you insist.
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Your technique wasn't at all bad
though you might have taken
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more interest
in Cortot's fingering.
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But let's just talk
about the conception.
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Chopin was emotional,
but not mawkish.
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Feeling is very far
from sentimentality.
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The prelude tells
of pain, not reverie.
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You have to be calm,
clear and harsh.
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Take the first bars now.
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It hurts, but
he doesn't show it.
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Then a short relief.
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But it evaporates at once,
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and the pain is the same.
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Total restraint the whole time.
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Chopin was proud, passionate,
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tormented and very manly.
He wasn't a mawkish old woman.
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This prelude must be
made to sound almost ugly.
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It is never ingratiating.
It should sound wrong.
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You have to battle your way
through it and emerge triumphant.
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Like this.