Monday, October 02, 2006

Chopin's Prelude No. 15 in D Flat Major ("Raindrop")

If the first movement of Beethoven's deathless Piano Sonata No. 14 (otherwise known as the Moonlight Sonata) is most suited to soundtrack those long, dark, lonely, desolate nights of the soul, then Chopin's Prelude No. 15 in D Flat Major is most suitable for those long, grey, rainy autumn afternoons, when optimism is a mere fancy, and the anticipation is that of a resigned variety.

Appropriately titled the "Raindrop" prelude, this short movemment, played Sostenuto, is a evenly paced prelude that, however, brims with an understated sense of menace that lurks just beneath the surface. Decidedly melancholy and intentionally colourless, the Prelude No. 15 in D Flat Major is the perfect musical equivalent of dreary weather.

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