How did Chopin's three sets of Études become one of the piano repertoire's most enduring and defining works? Find out with our handy guide… Chopin's reputation for piano composition is pretty ...

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 two sets of Études invested the didactic keyboard study with unparalleled artistry and musical substance. Jed Distler considers a selection of the finest recordings from the past 90 years ...

Frederic Chopin didn't write much music for orchestra, and all but a couple of his pieces have piano in them. But later this hour we'll hear his first Piano Concerto. Here's a piano warm-up. The Etude ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Yunchan Lim took first prize in the Van Cliburn Competition in 2022 he was the youngest ever winner at ...

If you say you want a revolution, look no farther than pianist Andre Watts. Before he tackles Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto this hour, Watts plays snippets of that 1800s revolutionary composer, ...