One of the slurs beginning in A on the 4th beat of the bar is probably inaccurate; in spite of the fact that in this section of the recitative not all slurs of the R.H. are repeated in the L.H., it does not seem that Chopin would like to have different slurs in each hand in the same fragment. Taking into account the fact that in a similar situation two bars later Chopin led both slurs to the culminant note at the beginning of the bar, in the main text we suggest extending the slur of the R.H. In the editions the slur of the L.H. was shortened and, moreover, on the 2nd beat of the bar only the demisemiquaver group was embraced with a slur and a similar slur was added in the L.H.
If in bar 53 the version with harmonic accompaniment was chosen, one of the versions with a slur only in the R.H. is to be selected here.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: Inaccuracies in GE, GE revisions
notation: Slurs