VEGANGELICA

Chopin's Etude Opus 25 no. 11 does remind me of some very icy winter walks through blizzards.

The piece starts off quiet and cool like a still winter afternoon, the calm before the storm. Then a BLAST of winter wind arrives, carrying snow down from the sky, which is what I imagine when I hear the motif of rapidly descending notes repeated often throughout the piece.

The etude also feels powerful and unnerving to me, like the winter wind, with the notes occasionally rapidly rising or falling to give the feeling of a chaotic flurry as the wind hits you from several directions in quick succession.

Not knowing many of Chopin's pieces, I cheated by listening first to this youtube video... YouTube - The very best of Chopin ... to use it to identify some of his pieces with which I am not familiar but that I wanted to hear in their entirety after getting just a taste. One of them turned out to be...

Chopin's "Waterfall" Etude Op. 10, no. 1. played by Ashkenazy
I like the strong, determined low sound of the left hand contrasting but harmonizing with the fast, light, fluttering notes of the right, combining to make the song sound both sweet and majestic to me:

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