The Study (or Etude) In E Op.10 No.3, written in 1832, has become perhaps the most popular of all Chopin's 'Studies'. Whether called 'Tristesse' or 'How Deep Is The Night?', it has been recorded countless times by popsingers and groups over the last forty years. It is nevertheless a study in legato playing, in subtly graded dynamics and in constant changes of tempo which take rubato to its furthest limits. This piece is a perfectminiature worthy of a serious place in any pia...