Going track-by-track, in 50 words or less, through all 15 of E.L. James' favorite classical music.
Today...Chopin, "Largo" from Prelude #4 in E Minor.
What to say about the most famously sad piano piece of all time? Von Bülow nicknamed it "suffocation." Chopin requested it for his own funeral. Gainsbourg's covered it, even Nicholson's played it. And the pianist heard here, Samson François, had a heart attack on stage. Grey enough? 'Natch.
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