A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin ’s Prelude, Op.28, No.15, ...
Chinese pianist Yifan Wu, who advanced on Sunday to the third stage of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano ...
Chopin completed his Preludes Op 28 in 1838, during a visit to Majorca that ended up in disaster. In addition to bleak lodgings and no access to a decent piano, the bad weather aggravated Chopin’s ...
For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grzędziński away from the front line and ...
Forty pianists, including four Poles, have advanced to the second stage of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano ...
British pianist Jacky Zhang opened the second stage of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Thursday ...
High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Wanda Landowska with the piano made by Juan Bauza for Frédéric Chopin(Alexander Binder (c.1914)) ...
Then the not so good: Paul Kildea, ruffler of feathers during his brief Wigmore regency and in his sometimes speculative Britten biography, rushing and mumbling his way through excerpts from his new ...
It’s possible that more people might have come to great music through Chopin than from any other composer. It’s equally likely they came to Chopin through his 24 piano preludes, the ultimate in ...
It is no coincidence that these two Chopin recitals arrive on each other’s heels. The prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition, held every five years, has just crowned its latest winner in ...