Chopin: Piano Sonatas No. 1 in C minor, Op.4; No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35; No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Cyprien Katsaris, piano (Sony). Though lacking the Olympian authority of Artur Rubinstein, Cyprien ...

Chopin completed his Preludes Op 28 in 1838, during a visit to Majorca that ended up in disaster. In addition to bleak lodgings and no access to a decent piano, the bad weather aggravated Chopin’s ...

Allyson Devenish compares recordings of Chopin's Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor and chooses her favourite. Chopin's final piano sonata was composed in 1844 and dedicated to Countess Émilie de Perthuis.

The main prize at the recent 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition was won by Cho Seong-Jin. The 21-year-old musician comes from the Republic of Korea and is a student of Michel Béroff ...

Characteristically, Lugansky imbues this Chopin recital with concentrated thought. Not for him any gratuitous pyrotechnics. Fleet, limpid passage-work, powerful drama and pianistic weight are ...

The CDs likely to be released in this, Chopin’s bicentenary year can hardly fail to be weighted in favour of his solo piano music, since that is the area to which he devoted the bulk of his creative ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu of Canada was named early Thursday as the winner of the 40,000-euro ($45,000) first prize in the 18th Frederic Chopin international piano competition, a ...

In 1960, an 18-year-old Italian pianist, the youngest contestant, won the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw. “That boy,” the revered pianist Arthur ...

Explore Michal Kwiecinski's film "Chopin, a Sonata in Paris," depicting the musician's struggles with fame and tuberculosis ...

Chopin completed his Preludes Op 28 in 1838, during a visit to Majorca that ended up in disaster. In addition to bleak lodgings and no access to a decent piano, the bad weather aggravated Chopin’s ...