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In the latest of his 70th birthday albums Nelson Freire turns to Chopin. The programme is Chopin public and private, one-half concerto, one-half solo works. The Piano Concerto No. 2 is at its best ...

November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...

Cecile Licad with PPO under Olivier Ochanine. A timely fundraiser for the projects of the Philippine-Italian Association. Last Tuesday, three days before her Chopin No. 1 and 2 concert (Oct. 27) at ...

LENOX — Two outstanding Romantic piano concertos are being featured this weekend at Tanglewood: the Piano Concerto No. 2 of Frédéric Chopin, at 8 p.m., July 22, and the Second Piano Concerto of ...

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, ...

Pianist Jan Simon is the soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony in the Piano Concerto No. 2, by Chopin. Vladimir Valek is the conductor. And after the Chopin, Fred takes a look at some recent emails ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 5 January 2015. Join John Brunning on Classic FM Drive after 6pm each weekday to hear a track from this album. The pianist Nelson Freire turned 70 in October 2014 and ...

Building a Library: Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor. Frédéric Chopin composed this glorious concerto in 1829 when he was 20 and before he ...

Frédéric Chopin was born 215 years ago, and it is amazing how Cecile Licad connected with the Polish composer’s music as though she had known him all her life. Understandably, some orchestras have ...

Yang told reporters later that day he felt the same way as after any other performance. "It's always a kind of relief. I try to remember only the good moments and quickly forget what could have gone ...

Most musicians who talk about a favorite composer do so in present tense, e.g., “Mozart does this”; “Beethoven writes like that.” When pianist Ingrid Fliter speaks of Frederic Chopin, you’d swear she ...