back from the piano

playlist:
Chopin - Ballade no. 3 in Ab
Haydn - Fantasia in C
Beethoven - Sonata (the Pathetique, can't rmb no. what)
Franck - Prelude, Chorale et Fugue

a rather incoherent programme, i just picked up whatever suited my mood. no gershwin today, no granados either. too happy. the first two weren't really in keeping with my mood, but the last two are.

i wikipediaed the ballade for fun, it turns out it has some ridiculous programme lol. a soppy love ballade with a happy ending. wtflol

the franck is 20 minutes distilled hate (it's supposed to be lots slower than 20 minutes but i just let rip with the anger). i don't think it has a programme, unlike the chopin. the prelude is kind of like meditations on angst, the chorale is more pensive meditating on how life really sucks bad, and it leads into the fugue which is full-blown fuck-you-world hatred, boiling rage and world-weary angst. the ending is just brilliant... showers of arpeggiated chords and octaves in the bass, like shaking your fist at the world.

no brahms though, couldn't summon up the angst to do brahms as well.