Ballade No. 3 in A-flat, Op. 47

The third of Chopin’s four Ballades for the piano has been called “probably the only 19th century ballade with a happy ending (as well as being the only ballade of Chopin’s that ends on a major chord).”
But there’s quite a journey it takes before that happy resolution, both in the literary [...]

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Ballade in G minor, Op. 23 (1836)

In the previous post we discussed an all-time Chopin favorite, the Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9, No. 2. What then, is left to say about another Chopin classic – this Ballade in G minor?Plenty, it would appear. There’s an extremely technical description in the La Folia online music reveiew by Beth Levin:
…..A rhythm of [...]

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