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 ...

In a review earlier this week, I wrote, “They will never stop coming, these excellent young performers—these pianists, violinists, et al. Never. There will never be a shortage of them.” The occasion ...

Two internationally acclaimed veteran pianists, well known for many splendid recordings on compact disc, performed on consecutive evenings at Victoria Concert Hall over the weekend. The first was ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Little music so combines poetry and mystery with the most formidable technical challenges as Chopin's Etudes, the two sets of 12 studies ...

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 ...

Filip Lech, Culture.pl’s music journalist and editor, and Iza Smelczyńska, musicologist and improviser, discuss the first round of the Chopin Competition.

For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grzędziński away from the front line and ...

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First Decca studio album of 20-year-old pianist released on April 19; Lim to kick off national recital tour in June When practicing for the recording of his first solo album, “Chopin Etudes,” which ...

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own,” Oscar Wilde. Born exactly 200 years ago, on 1 March 1810 ...