In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...

The last piano on which Frederic Chopin played and composed in Paris is being renovated by a U.S. expert who is giving it back its original mid-19th century characteristics. Paul McNulty is spending ...

Evgeny Rivkin, professor of piano at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will perform a solo recital of works from Chopin, Debussy and Haydn when the Thursday Scholarship Series makes its 2017 debut in ...

HERE is an absolute blinder from ICA Classics, featuring the great pianist Claudio Arrau playing Chopin's First Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Fourth with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, now ...

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 ...

Explorations deep into the language of music. There’s a lot that’s Bach, and a lot that’s not. Hosted by Sherry Gendleman and Anthony Bonet. Emanuel Ax Grande Valse Brillante in A minor Op. 34, No. 2 ...

An alternative version of Chopin’s famously morose piano work, but less solemn and more… trippy. The famous third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.2 actually began life as a ‘Funeral March’, or ...

American pianist Eric Lu won the top prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, the contest's Polish organisers said Tuesday. The competition -- held every five years in Frederic ...

Canadian classical pianist Bruce Xiaoyu Liu was awarded first prize in the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. — © Chopin Institute Canadian ...

An Italian airport, a piano, a Chopin Waltz, and a glimpse of an incredible young talent. Most of us charge through airports in a stress – overpriced coffee in one hand, a pile of passports, boarding ...

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 ...