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12 Etudes, Op. 25 : Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind" by Vladimir Ashkenazy album cover

12 Etudes, Op. 25 : Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind"

by Vladimir Ashkenazy

About This Song

About "12 Etudes, Op. 25 : Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind"" by Vladimir Ashkenazy

Ashkenazy's fingers summon a gale: Chopin's 'Winter Wind' étude becomes a blizzard of chromatic runs, each note a shard of ice. Beneath the virtuosic flurry lies a desolate tenderness—calm at the eye of a storm that never stops howling.