Saturday song #3

Cosy up this weekend with a smattering of Bergman-related musical entertainment! Every Saturday, we offer up a new song that relates to Bergman in some interesting manner. Over time, we plan on building up a pretty-little playlist suitable for any occasion, aptly entitled The Original Ingmar Bergman Spotify Playlist. (For more on Bergman and music, click here.)

Saturday song #3 is:

Frédéric Chopin,Prelude No 2 in A minor, Op. 20, No 2 (Roland Pöntinen, 24 Preludes).

Anyone who has seen Autumn Sonata recalls the terrific scene when Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann sit before the piano playing four hands. 'Disregarding the purely technical – which wasn't half bad – considering that you could have very well paid a tiny bit more attention to proper fingering, as this informs your understanding, but in any case. Let us speak instead of your interpretation. Chopin was an emotional character, Eva, but he was not sentimental. There lies an abyss between emotions and sentimentality.' Just what would Charlotte have thought of Roland Pöntinen's fingering?