This is one of Chopin's most mournful works has lived long in the memory thanks to Jack Nicholson, or all people. When you think of Chopin, you don't necessarily think of incurable sadness and ...

Ingrid Fliter began her association with Linn with an impressive pairing of the two Chopin piano concertos. This disc of solo Chopin, built around the 24 Preludes, isn’t quite on the same level, ...

All pianists want to tackle Chopin’s 24 Preludes. Two sets arrived together: Yundi’s, coupled with two other preludes; and Nelson Goerner’s, with Polonaise Op 44, Berceuse Op 57 and Barcarolle Op 60.

Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island– and dream discs –recordings that would have gone to the top of the charts if only the ...

Alexewicz is one of four Polish contestants who have qualified to the second stage. During his performance on Thursday, he played all 24 preludes from Opus 28. Reflecting on how his interpretation of ...

Introduction and Variations on a Theme from Héro Dong Hyek Lim, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Berceuse Dong Hyek Lim, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Barcarolle Dong Hyek Lim, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, ...

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 ...

Sonata for Piano No. 2, 'Sonata-fantasy' Daniil Trifonov, Piano Alexander Scriabin, Composer Sonata for Piano Franz Liszt, Composer Daniil Trifonov, Piano (24) Preludes Daniil Trifonov, Piano Fryderyk ...

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.