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Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22 : Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Variation No. 13 Largo by Daniil Trifonov album cover

Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22 : Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Variation No. 13 Largo

by Daniil Trifonov

About This Song

About "Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22 : Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Variation No. 13 Largo" by Daniil Trifonov

Variation 13's Largo is a slow snowfall of sound, each note a heavy flake drifting into silence. Trifonov draws out a profound melancholy, the theme's ghost lingering in the bass like a memory that refuses to thaw, creating a tension between stillness and the ache of something lost.