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Etude in E minor, Op. 25 No. 5

18343 min

This guide follows Chopin’s Etude in E minor, Op. 25 No. 5 (1834) in one part.

Recording: Evgeny Kissin (piano) (2009)

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0:02–3:25

A: the right-hand melody is spiked with semitone clashes in a bouncing dotted rhythm, over wide leaping arpeggios in the left hand. B: the clashes disappear. In E major and marked (more slowly), the right hand plays arpeggios with double notes while the left hand sings a sustained tune. The music grows tense, then calms before the . A, once more: the first music comes back and drives to a that ends in E major.

  1. A
  2. B

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