Pianist Rafal Blechacz's victory at the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (the first Polish performer to take the prize in 30 years) aroused plenty of interest in this young virtuoso.

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 ...

But the concert’s climax came with the complete Chopin Preludes, Andsnes offering a deeply fascinating performance that felt like an honest outpouring from the composer’s conflicted heart, busy mind ...

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

Chopin's 24 Preludes are universally recognized as some of the composer's most characteristic works. Not only are they quintessential of his style, but are also deeply tied with upheavals in Chopin's ...

In the winter of 1838-39, Chopin and his lover George Sand set off to the Balearic Islands to escape the Parisian winter. Chopin took with him the partially completed manuscript of his Preludes, plus ...

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 ...

Like others, I tend to repeat stories, but I figure it’s okay if they’re good ones. Let me quote a story I told in a September 2019 review: In the summer of 2012, I was driving from Ann Arbor, ...

Since his last Schubert Club solo recital in 2006, Norway’s Leif Ove Andsnes has emerged as one of the 21st century’s premier pianists. So it’s no surprise that St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater was ...