Bergman: Chopin is emotional but not mawkish. Pain not reverie. You have to be calm, clean and harsh.
肖邦是情感丰富却非多愁善感的。悲伤却不想入非非。你弹奏时必须镇定,干净却严厉的。
It hurts, but he doesn't show it. Then a short relief, but it evaporates at once, and the pain is the same. Total restraint whole time. Chopin was proud, passionate tormented and very manly. He wan't a mawkish old woman. This prelude must be made to sound almost ugly, it is never ingratiating. It should sound wrong. You have to battle your way, through it and merge triumphant.