Listening once more to Arrau’s Liszt is to recollect those many occasions in the concert hall when he seemed like Atlas holding aloft the universe‚ absorbed in a gargantuan feat that left his audience ...

In a lifetime of listening to piano music, I don't think I've heard accounts of Chopin's Barcarolle or Schumann's Blumenstⁿck as laboured as those offered on Friday night. Tempos were slow. The ...

Celebrate the end of the week with a pre-dinner (6.30pm) or post-dinner (9pm) performance of Chopin, complete with a complimentary champagne reception (served from 30mins before) Set in the exclusive ...

An album of American pianist Eric Lu, the winner of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, has been ...

V ous pianistes, nous vous envions Chopin. » Ce cri du cœur vient d’un des plus grands chefs d’orchestre de tous les temps, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Il explique clairement la profonde admiration d’un des ...

Ce terme ne nous est pas complètement étranger, et pourtant, sait-on vraiment ce qu’est une barcarolle ? Alors, barcarolle avec 1 ou 2 L, c’est selon, et si ça vous dit quelque chose, c’est sans doute ...

To mark his 75th birthday Maurizio Pollini has turned to the late works of Chopin. Of course, “late” Chopin is still only the composer in his 30s, but music like the last mazurkas does seem to be ...

Stephen Plaistow recalls the illustrious recorded history of Chopin's oeuvre and offers a personal view of some of the most famous pianists In the years since Chopin died perceptions of him have, of ...

For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered. Earlier this year, Robinson McClellan, a curator at The Morgan Library and ...

Yang, who closed the second stage of the competition, described the programme as highly demanding. While not fully satisfied with his performance, he said he was glad to have expressed what he felt on ...