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

Lisiecki has been exciting both Canadian and international audiences since the age of nine. Twelve years later, the pianist has amassed a wealth of recognition and honours — including playing for ...

Born 200 years ago on March 1, Frédéric Chopin was an archetypal Romantic artist -- uncompromising and doomed. The Pole's subtle touch at the piano mystified some yet made others swoon (not just young ...

8 February: CD of the Week is Jonathan Plowright's new release, Hommage à Chopin. This new release from British pianist Jonathan Plowright, in Chopin's bicentennial year, features music inspired by ...

This is an imaginative way of marking Chopin’s bicentenary without adding to the already amply stocked CD catalogue of his own works. Jonathan Plowright provides a fascinating conspectus of how Chopin ...

Although you wouldn't know it from musical programming around here, 2010 marks the bicentenary of both Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann. Even the record industry hasn't paid much attention to ...

Monday 1 August: Pianist Stephen Hough is one of the world’s most celebrated soloists – and, for many years, he’s recorded for the Hyperion label. For his latest Hyperion disc, Hough focuses on the ...

Characteristically, Lugansky imbues this Chopin recital with concentrated thought. Not for him any gratuitous pyrotechnics. Fleet, limpid passage-work, powerful drama and pianistic weight are ...