The appearance of the sixteenth Prelude brings a new transgression, a new ‘irruption’ of music of a different character. The presto con fuoco at which the B flat minor Prelude speeds along strikes a wild and predatory tone, characteristic of a surrealistic ballade.Huneker calls this Prelude ‘the boldest of the set’. Barely a couple of months later, similar music would enter the doppio movimento in the first movement of the B flat minor Sonata.Author: Mieczysław TomaszewskiA series of programmes entitled ‘Fryderyk Chopin's Complete Works’Polish Radio 2