Chopin’s Nocturne No. 7, in C-sharp minor, begins with a low, ashen sound: a prowling arpeggio in the left hand, consisting only of C-sharps and G-sharps. It’s a hollowed-out harmony, in limbo ...

Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes for the piano are probably one of the romantic period's best-known relics. Pianists live and die today by their ability to tackle the core repertoire, and the Nocturnes are ...

Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin For this rising artist, Chopin’s 21 nocturnes are “pieces I play for myself.” A new recording will bring them to an audience.

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 utterly revolutionized what was possible on the piano. I used to love listening to his Etudes -- I admired the way they combine physical challenges at the keyboard with melting lyrical ...

The Polish composer wrote more or less exclusively for the piano, building up a repertoire of 234 solo piano pieces – and British pianist Warren Mailley-Smith memorised them all for an impressive ...

L'album Chopin: Complete Preludes, Impromptus and Nocturnes for Piano de Frédéric Chopin : extraits, infos, charts, titres, écouter et télécharger.

Chopin and the piano go together like peas in a pod. But where do you start with the composer who not only wrote the most famous piano music of all time, ... He wrote over 230 pieces for the piano, ...

Chopin traveled to Majorca for rest but upon arriving could not find a piano. He finally settled for a local craftsman’s pianino, hauled up the mountainside in a cart drawn by mules.