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

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.

Part of Reflections From the Keyboard. Pianist, teacher and author David Dubal hosts a weekly exploration of classical music's piano greats.

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 ...

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, ...

Alexewicz is one of four Polish contestants who have qualified to the second stage. During his performance on Thursday, he played all 24 preludes from Opus 28. Reflecting on how his interpretation of ...

Chopin is never far from the center of the piano world, but he seems to be picking up some unusually eloquent champions lately. To a list that includes the Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, who makes ...

Peter Collins, a New Orleans-born pianist and music professor at Missouri State University, will present a free concert on Sunday afternoon featuring selected works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude ...

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 ...