The title of this glorious concerto is another example of musical cataloguing triumphing over historical fact. Far from being Chopin’s first piano concerto, this is actually his second. It was ...
I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...
In the latest of his 70th birthday albums Nelson Freire turns to Chopin. The programme is Chopin public and private, one-half concerto, one-half solo works. The Piano Concerto No. 2 is at its best ...
November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...
Japan's Miyu Shindo, one of the finalists in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, has said she was drawn to the Piano Concerto in E minor as she loves the many colours and ...
(Die) Heimkehr aus der Fremde, "Son and Stranger", Movements: Overture Martin Yates Royal Northern Sinfonia Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Martin Yates, Conductor ...
Many great composers go through periods of significant self-doubt and introspection – particularly when embarking on a major new work. For Chopin, though, there was a sense of abandonment – naïvety, ...
Wow! What does a reissue of a 1978 LP (lasting only 43 minutes) of a much recorded concerto have to offer? But the pianist is the maverick Grigory Sokolov, who has recently become the connoisseur’s ...
A year on from winning the International Chopin Piano Competition Seong-Jin Cho from South Korea continues to play to his strengths. In Chopin’s glittering and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 1, the E ...
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