Good Company with Canadian guitarist Drew Henderson and violinist Dr. Clara Haneul Yoon perform Nocturne in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849). This comes via Henderson’s YouTube channel (go subscribe).
Beautiful performance and arrangement with an interesting by effective inner section turned into a guitar cadenza. Composed in 1830 when Chopin was about 20 years old, the Nocturne in C-sharp minor is a lyrical and deeply expressive work dedicated to his sister Ludwika. It remained unpublished during his lifetime and was published posthumously, more than twenty years after his death. Here’s some of the YouTube description from Henderson:
The arrangement is inspired by Nathan Milstein’s version for violin and piano. The arrangement is pretty close to the original composition, except with a cadenza in place of a slightly quirky section in the middle. As a duo we are always concerned with balancing the parts where possible, so the cadenza migrated from the violin to the guitar, and we extended it – thank you to Clara for encouraging me to do that!
