Certain types of figurations presage the fully formed Chopin soon destined to emerge on the scene and change the course of piano music for ever. Yet if one slipped the Minuetto into an early Schubert ...

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.

Since his last Schubert Club solo recital in 2006, Norway’s Leif Ove Andsnes has emerged as one of the 21st century’s premier pianists. So it’s no surprise that St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chopin's ground-breaking series of 24 piano Preludes performed at the Edinburgh International Festival by Ryan Wang plus music from Shostakovich for Shakespeare's Hamlet. Show more More specially ...

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 ...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), whose 200th anniversary it is this year, is the overwhelming favorite composer for the piano. He possessed the most subtle intuitions and fathomed the mysteries of the ...