F. Chopin Scherzo, 2 Op. 31 in B flat minor. Valentina Lisitsa

The work was composed and published between 1835 and 1837, and was dedicated to Countess Adèle Fürstenstein. As pianist David Dubal has written, Robert Schumann compared this scherzo to a Byronic poem, so overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and And according to Wilhelm von Lenz, a pupil of Chopin, the composer said that the renowned sotto voce opening was a question and the second phrase the answer: For Chopin it was never questioning enough, never soft enough, never vaulted (tombe) enough. It must be a Dubal wrote that critic James Huneker exults : What masterly writing, and it lies in the very heart of the piano A hundred generations may not improve on these pages As per Wiki article on this work