In my 2021 Gramophone Chopin Competition blog, I wrote the following about Hyu’s older sibling Hyuk Lee: ‘Everything Lee plays sounds the same. He doesn’t make magic. He doesn’t make waves, nor take ...

Expressive asynchrony, a vestige of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century "melodic rubato," occurs when notationally solid chords are either arpeggiated or performed with a slight desynchronization ...

Gramophone is a Media Partner of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. You can follow the competition by watching the live stream at chopincompetition.pl - and visit us every day ...

"Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music," by Paul Kildea. W.W. Norton, 368 pages. $27.95. Even those who are not musically inclined will find themselves reading this book ...

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.