Twenty year old Rafal Blechacz (RAF-aw (l) BLEH- (h)aatch) is the newly crowned winner of the 2005 Warsaw Chopin Competition. We hear him play Debussy's "Estampes," followed by the Etude, Op. 10, No.
This is one of Chopin's most mournful works has lived long in the memory thanks to Jack Nicholson, or all people. When you think of Chopin, you don't necessarily think of incurable sadness and ...
It seems counterintuitive to hold a solo piano recital in an orchestra hall. There’s something distinctly imbalanced in having the more than 1,000 patrons in attendance at Symphony Center’s Orchestra ...
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 ...
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 ...
Young Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki delighted the audience at The Society of the Four Arts with an all-Chopin recital on Sunday. Lisiecki, who has had an international career since he signed a ...
Pianist Brian Ganz played the sixth concert of his decade-long survey of the works of Chopin at Strathmore on Saturday night, presented by the National Philharmonic. His partner for the evening was ...
Twenty-seven-year-old Eric Lu won the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (ph) on Tuesday in Warsaw, Poland. It's the first time an American has taken top honors at the competition since ...