CD review: Chopin, the Complete Preludes By Joshua Kosman, Retired Classical Music Critic May 4, 2008 cd cover Ran on: 05-04-2008 Deutsche Grammophon ...

Here's how it works: If the project successfully meets its fundraising goal ($75,000 by Sunday, October 20), it will hire musicians (some of the best Chopin pianists in the world) to record and ...

The Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter was born to play Chopin. He is the composer with whom her name is most closely associated, and this second CD for EMI is devoted entirely to his works, in ...

Here are all sixteen volumes in the Chopin: The Complete Works collection: Vol. 1 - Awakening Vol. 2 - Hats Off Vol. 3 - Musical Genius Vol. 4 - My Own Ideal Vol. 5 - Dreams & Dances Vol. 6 - High ...

Brian Ganz is preparing to climb a musical Mt. Everest. He wants to perform all 250 keyboard-based works of Frederic Chopin. He’s in no hurry, though. “This will probably take the bette… ...

Familiar Nocturnes come across as fresh, spontaneous inventions when Louis Lortie plays them on his new album Chopin: Piano Works Vol 2, writes Geoffrey Norris.

Three years ago, Warren Mailley-Smith became the first British pianist to memorise Chopin’s complete works for solo piano, for one concert series. Here’s how he did it. These add up to a beautiful – ...

He plays selections of the mazurkas, interspersing them with three works conceived in contrasting veins: the B minor Scherzo Op20, the C minor Nocturne Op48 No1 and the extended Polonaise ...

Ganz calls these etudes Chopin's “virtuosic summit.” “Chopin's 250 or so works are almost without question the most beloved ever composed for the piano,” Ganz said.

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 ...