Frédéric Chopin is known as the 'Poet of the Piano'.From his delicate music such as nocturnes and preludes,a 'quiet and ...

Certain musical works speak of their time in a timeless fashion. Think of the heady Romanticism of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” or the naive musical picture-making of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” ...

Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island– and dream discs –recordings that would have gone to the top of the charts if only the ...

Ingrid Fliter began her association with Linn with an impressive pairing of the two Chopin piano concertos. This disc of solo Chopin, built around the 24 Preludes, isn’t quite on the same level, ...

All pianists want to tackle Chopin’s 24 Preludes. Two sets arrived together: Yundi’s, coupled with two other preludes; and Nelson Goerner’s, with Polonaise Op 44, Berceuse Op 57 and Barcarolle Op 60.

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High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...