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, ...

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 ...

Frederic Chopin began composing his 27 piano etudes when he was 19 years old. They are technical exercises, systematically moving from one petrifying set of challenges to the next. Of course, when ...

Listening to pianist Jocelyn Swigger's new album The Complete Chopin Études isn't like hearing these famous pieces for the first time again. But it is sure to give listeners a fresh perspective on ...

It was May of 1829 and Frederic Chopin was 19 when he went to hear the great Niccolo Paganini perform his first concert in Warsaw. He was called "a wizard, " "the devil incarnate," "super-human," "a ...

Pianist Lim Yunchan swept the three most prestigious categories at the BBC Music Magazine Awards in London -- recording of the year, newcomer of the year and the instrumental award -- all for his ...