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My Review - Movie - “ Desire for Love " about Chopin

We have been curious to see the movie “ Desire for Love“ about Chopin and finally we watched it last weekend. This story is about the relationship between Frederic Chopin and George Sand and her children. The title “ Desire for love “ exactly fits with the story. This is not a full bio about Chopin’s life and his music, ( although the soundtrack is absolutely awesome, with masterful performances of Chopin’s music by top pianists ), but mainly focuses on Chopin’s life after he met George Sand and their relationship. But Ray and I both actually really enjoyed it and watched it three times already. It’s impossible to show all the details of Chopin’s life, and even his relationship with George Sand within 2 hours. For casting, we both thought all the casts they used for this movie was good with great acting, except for Franz Liszt. And this is my only Con for this movie is that the actor they used to play Franz Liszt did not fit him at all. IMO, his image doesn’t fit with

Feeling so happy - While listening to Chopin

  Happiness.     There is a famous quote which said     “ Happiness is within “ by …Martin Yan “  Happiness is a choice “ by Barry Kaufmann   I agree with these quotes.   I can be happy without doing anything, and getting happiness from my imagination.    And there is also happiness we can naturally feel when doing something we love. Surrounded by all my favorites makes me extremely happy.     One of them is listening to the beautiful sounds of music.    For this month so far, I’m crazy about another Frederic Chopin’s music again !      There are several new music I discovered from compositions which Chopin created when he was a teenager. Especially, this CD, ( the image below)    “ Chopin Complete Piano Music * Volume 15 “ with pianist Idil Biret ,  and the “ Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Robert Schakowsky ".      These are Chopin compositions when he was 18.  It’s unbelievable he created these amazing compositions when he was only 18 !  My favo

Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin’s friendship - Part 2

Continued from “ Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin’s friendship Part 1”. On 26th of April, 1841 Chopin gave another concert in Salle Pleyel in Paris on which Liszt wrote a long review , published in the Revue et Gazette Muscale, that left itself open to varying interpretations. While Liszt expressed his admiration for his fellow artist, Chopin and his circle of friends, and his family members, were upset about some parts of his review. They were upset by the fact that Liszt did not praise Chopin as a composer, and failed entirely to mention the opus 38 Ballad in F major , opus 40 Polonaise in A major , and opus 39 Scherzo in C sharp minor , all of which Chopin had performed as part of the program. At the same time, Lisztomania was spreading like wildfire. Wherever he performed, audiences were awestruck by Liszt’s breathtaking virtuosity and style, and the audiences reveled and raved, quite beside themselves with wonder and enthusiasm. Very few artists are able to

Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin’s friendship Part 1

Frederyk Chopin   I’m a long time fan of Chopin’s music since when I was a teenager. Started loving his music from hearing his Polonaise , then Noctunes , Etudes … Frederyk Chopin I was using one of Chopin’s Nocturnes as my background music for my answering machine when I was in my 20s. In Japan, many of his music is famous and used in many TV dramas, commercials, movies, and mostly wealthy bourgeois family scenes. My image of many of Chopin ’s music that I’ve listened to is of a cozy, bourgeois world. From almost all his music I’ve ever heard, I often pictured an elegant, wealthy family’s world or a story about a family who are living in a luxury antique style house. Many of Mozart ’s music reminds me of a social life in an older generation, a story about bourgeois world in a gorgeous luxury palace. For Liszt ’s music, his music is very variety, ranging from an image of a sweet passionate love story for couples, all the way to nightmare horror story type of mu

My favorite composers of the 19th century - Liszt, Chopin, Saint Saens, Tchaikovsky, Massenet

5 Music Virtuosos of the 19th century Franz Liszt ( 1811 - 1886) Frederic Chopin ( 1810 - 1849) Pyotr Tchaikovsky ( 1840-1893) Camille Saint- Saens, ( 1835 - 1921) Jules Massenet ( 1842 - 1912 ) Since we found this amazing site, http://tchaikovsky-research.net/ which has so many information about not only, Pyotr Tchaikovsky ,  but many other people who were around him in that generation, I’ve been even more into the 19th century ’s, my favorite composers. Tchaikovsky seems like really a perfectionist, analyzing music and many other things and people,  and there are thousands of his private letters which he wrote to a wealthy widow named Nadezdha von Meck who admired him and his music so much. He might not have imagined that his private letters to her would one day be open to public viewing in the future. I feel like becoming a gossip woman when I started reading them,  but it ’s so interesting to know, as he is one of my favorite co