Remarkably, this is the only piece of Chopin solo piano music that has been a permanent fixture of the Classic FM Hall of Fame since its inception in 1996. As with the concertos, this particular ...

More Chopin? The bicentenary year has opened up the floodgates of Chopin recordings, but this one highlights the poetic sensibility of the French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie. It is the first volume ...

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 ...

Chopin’s Nocturne No. 7, in C-sharp minor, begins with a low, ashen sound: a prowling arpeggio in the left hand, consisting only of C-sharps and G-sharps. It’s a hollowed-out harmony, in limbo between ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...

Brandon Taylor Q&A: “My theme tune is Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major. It’s melancholy and very gay” The author on Northrop Frye, the joy of drafts, and the dubious enterprise of idolising political ...

Preparing today’s Chopin Talk segment prevented me from hearing this morning’s first five participants in real time, although I managed to catch the rest in person. I’m grateful to The Chopin ...