I retired 4 years ago ... I started learning classical piano pieces 3 years ago [View all]

Starting with the 1st movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

It was so ambitious, it took 9 months to figure out the first page, then another 4 months to learn the remaining 3 pages

After rooting about for a new piece to learn, I finally ran into Chopin, whom I have never knowingly heard (I now realize I heard alot of his stuff without knowing it)

I started with Prelude #15, the so called 'Raindrop Prelude', and then proceeded to learn #'s 2, 4, 6, 7 and 20

While learning these pieces, I of course finally encountered Yuja Wang ... She's an absolute marvel

Here she plays all the 24 preludes as a cycle ... Like Bach, the works cover all major and minor scales