Ever since Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in June 2022, the piano grapevine has been buzzing with news of his prowess. Audiences in Fort Worth were blown ...

If you say you want a revolution, look no farther than = pianist Andre Watts. Before he tackles Rachmaninoff's second piano = concerto this hour, Watts plays snippets of that 1800s revolutionary = ...

Chopin’s two sets of Études invested the didactic keyboard study with unparalleled artistry and musical substance. Jed Distler considers a selection of the finest recordings from the past 90 years ...

Chopin’s etudes are a kind of finishing school for pianists. Learning to play them at all gives a performer technique enough to handle most difficulties; learning to play them well leaves one with a ...

Le 13 avril 2020, la pianiste russe Zlata Chochieva s'est produite sur les planches du pavillon Schinkel de Berlin. Le concert s'ouvre avec les Romances sans paroles, op 67 (no 5 et no 2) de ...

Internationally acclaimed Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to the Etudes of Chopin: music written to take pianists to the extremes of virtuosity while enchanting listeners ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Yunchan Lim took first prize in the Van Cliburn Competition in 2022 he was the youngest ever winner at ...

It was May of 1829 and Frederic Chopin was 19 when he went to hear the great Niccolo Paganini perform his first concert in Warsaw. He was called "a wizard, " "the devil incarnate," "super-human," "a ...

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