Frédéric Chopin wrote some of the most famous piano music ever, but where should you start? Our handy guide will show you what to listen out for and what to go for next. Chopin and the piano go ...

The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

Most pianists, amateur or professional, have some Chopin in their repertoire. As one very much of the former variety, I went along to the UK’s first Chopin piano weekend – and here’s what I learned.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 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 ...

“Funnily enough, I never played Chopin as a student,” he says on the phone from London. “I didn’t understand the music, I didn’t like it … I was playing lots of Bach and lots of 20th century, those ...

"For nearly 100 years the competition has not only shaped the history of global piano music but has also been Poland's trademark in culture,' Cienkowska told reporters in Warsaw on Tuesday. "We are ...

Then the not so good: Paul Kildea, ruffler of feathers during his brief Wigmore regency and in his sometimes speculative Britten biography, rushing and mumbling his way through excerpts from his new ...

“Dearly beloved father; it would be easier for me to express my feelings in musical phrases...” —Seven-year-old Chopin in a letter to his father. The name of Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) needs no ...

It's the season of giving in Nashville, Tennessee, and the inaugural Piano Rainbow Initiative is in-tune with the times. The musical initiative, a sister project of Music City Chopin, is gifting 10 ...

This October, renowned Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino will step on Poland’s Warsaw Philharmonic Hall stage in the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition. Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino performs ...

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