Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island. Now, Mikhail ...

High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...

Chopin completed his Preludes Op 28 in 1838, during a visit to Majorca that ended up in disaster. In addition to bleak lodgings and no access to a decent piano, the bad weather aggravated Chopin’s ...

Surely there were some proud Norwegian Americans in the crowd, prepared to celebrate the music of Andsnes’ homeland with sonatas by composers of the 19th century (Edvard Grieg) and the 20th (the ...

24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor, Presto 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, Lento 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 14 in E-Flat Minor, Allegro 24 ...

Alexewicz is one of four Polish contestants who have qualified to the second stage. During his performance on Thursday, he played all 24 preludes from Opus 28. Reflecting on how his interpretation of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Wanda Landowska with the piano made by Juan Bauza for Frédéric Chopin(Alexander Binder (c.1914)) ...

Then the not so good: Paul Kildea, ruffler of feathers during his brief Wigmore regency and in his sometimes speculative Britten biography, rushing and mumbling his way through excerpts from his new ...

The coming days feature each of the 18th Chopin Competition’s semi-finalists in an uninterrupted 55-minute recital. Their programmes must include the following: a complete set of Mazurkas (either Op ...

It is no coincidence that these two Chopin recitals arrive on each other’s heels. The prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition, held every five years, has just crowned its latest winner in ...

From Etudes to Nocturnes – here’s the very best of Frédéric Chopin, 19th-century piano virtuoso and leading figure of the Romantic era. Frédéric Chopin is almost exclusively associated with the king ...