The Pianism on Instagram: "Des Abends (1838) in D-flat Major (In the evening), here played in 1967 by Vladimir Ashkenazy, is Schumann’s closest piece to a Chopin Nocturne, and especially the Nocturne in D-flat Major Op. 27, No. 2 (1835) with the same kind of mood and character. In 1850, Liszt would take Chopin’s Op. 27 No. 2 as his model for a nocturnal piece, the Consolation No. 3 in… D-flat Major. Schumann indicated « Sehr innig zu spielen », meaning « to be played very intimately ». Des Abend