Chopin Prelude 4

To conclude this trip down prelude memory lane (at least for the time being), here is the veeery first piece I worked on with Don Betts. I’ve actually hardly played this one since that first year of lessons, but I found it came back quickly. Is playing a piece like riding a bicycle? Maybe a little. Frédéric Chopin ▶️ Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 (in E minor) Paul Cantrell, piano ⬇️ Download audio file for Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 (in E minor) (2:41 / 3.7 M) Don always gives this one to his beginner students. At the time, although I’d had piano lessons for many years as a child, and had recently played piano in a dixie band, I was still really a beginner in many ways. I’d brought Louis Lortie’s recording of the Chopin études (or more accurately, stolen it from my parents), and as I fell in love with Chopin, I began to think that taking piano lessons might not be such a bad thing. So I signed up, Don gave me this piece, and now here I am, quitting my job to noodle around with the piano all day. I realize just now as I write this that my first lesson with Don would have been ten years ago this month. Gosh.