The very cold and gray weather like winter has really set in has given me a powerful hankerin' for some Chopin. I have four sets by different piano players including Alicia del la Rocha, Horowitz (of course, how could you not), Ivan Moravec (the guy that the Chopin lovers really love) and Krystian Zimerman (my fav). Once I start playing the Chopin it can go on for days, the nocturnes into the mazurkas, waltzes, polonaises and études. His output was mighty and the depth of his emotion truly limitless. Yet despite the intense emotion (or perhaps because of it) the beauty of the notes and spaces between the notes is so simple and delicate.
