The Art of the Nocturne

And I then: “Someone frames upon the keys
That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our own vacuity.”
She then: “Does this refer to me?”
“Oh no, it is I who am inane.”
-- TS Eliot

John Field, Irish composer and pianist
Father of the Nocturne
(26 July, 1782 - 23 January, 1837)
This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-28-2007
Bart van Oort, piano
Nocturne No. 6 in F Major (Field)