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 ...

(4) Ballades Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Lise de la Salle, Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Lise de la Salle, Piano Staatskapelle Dresden Fabio Luisi, Conductor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer ...

The final round of this year's contest will feature 11 participants: Piotr Alexewicz (Poland), Kevin Chen (Canada), David Khrikuli (Georgia), Shiori Kuwahara (Japan), Tianyou Li (China), Eric Lu ...

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 ...

Um manifestante executou um insólito concerto de piano, alternando Chopin, o hino nacional da Ucrânia e "Let it be", dos Beatles, em uma das barricadas erguidas nos protestos antigovernamenais em Kiev ...

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, ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Antoni Wit, Conductor Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Eldar Nebolsin, Piano Fantasia on Polish Airs Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra ...

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 ...