Pianist Dubravka Tomsic plays a pair of Chopin Etudes, from her = concert at this summer's Rockport Festival in Massachusetts. The Etude = in F minor, Op. 10, No. 25. And the Etude in C minor, Op. 25, ...
Chopin’s etudes are a kind of finishing school for pianists. Learning to play them at all gives a performer technique enough to handle most difficulties; learning to play them well leaves one with a ...
Every great pianist learns the Chopin etudes and many pianists venture to play a few of them in public. But it is the rare keyboard athlete who dares to play them all in one sitting and before a live ...
WARSAW — Nearly two centuries after his birth, Frederic Chopin remains a remarkably potent artistic force in Poland’s capital, his age-old music inspiring perpetually new waves of creativity and ...
Ewan Hastie, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022, returns to perform at the 2024 final with Zoe Rahman and Sophie Alloway—2024, BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024 ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith The Chopin bicentennial has brought an expected rush of celebrations, but for some performers this music is seldom out of ...