Though not the most imaginative take on the 21 nocturnes, the French pianist captures Chopin’s music as it was conceived on a superb-sounding 1836 Pleyel Chopin composed 21 nocturnes, 18 of which were ...

Frédéric Chopin passed away more than 160 years ago -- sufficiently long ago that today all of his compositions belong to the public domain. Yet, despite this, if you wanted to make a movie with ...

Waltzes, Movements: No. 1 in E flat, Op. 18 Artur Pizarro, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Waltzes, Movements: No. 2 in A flat, Op. 34/1 Artur Pizarro, Piano Fryderyk ...

FORT WORTH — Every so often a concert feels particularly special, one you’re grateful to be experiencing. That’s how it was with pianist Piers Lane’s recital Saturday night at Texas Christian ...

Following universal praise for her EMI Classics debut album of Chopin piano works, Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter has recorded the composer’s complete waltzes for release as the music world prepares ...

The mazurka, a traditional Polish dance, acts as a siren to Poles far and wide. Janina Fialkowska, born in Canada but half-Polish, says that in playing the mazurkas of Chopin she has been afforded “a ...

Waltzes, Movements: No. 1 in E flat, Op. 18 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Vladimir Feltsman, Musician, Piano Waltzes, Movements: No. 2 in A flat, Op. 34/1 Fryderyk Chopin ...

On April 11, 2025, Hyperion Records will re-release Sir Stephen Hough’s complete Chopin Waltzes, now featuring Sir Stephen’s new recording of Chopin’s Waltz in A minor (Valse). This previously unheard ...

Monday 1 August: Pianist Stephen Hough is one of the world’s most celebrated soloists – and, for many years, he’s recorded for the Hyperion label. For his latest Hyperion disc, Hough focuses on the ...

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.

Though she won the hugely prestigious Gilmore award for pianists in 2006, and was part of the BBC's New Generation Artists scheme until this year, Ingrid Fliter is still not widely known in this ...