Behind the scenes notes. 8th day Chopin Piano Competition. On Friday, October 10th, the second day of the second stage of the ...

For the first time ever the complete set of Chopins Etudes on Video See and listen to the work which is justly considered the ultimate in difficulty both musically and technically Chopins 24 Etudes ...

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

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 ...

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 = ...

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, No.

The idea of late style in creative works has long fascinated critics. Commentators have noted that for many artists and thinkers — from Beethoven to Einstein — the most groundbreaking, innovative, and ...

“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel.” It has been almost 175 years since Frederic Chopin’s soul was snatched away into the ether by tuberculosis at the age of 39. However, the complexity ...