November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...

In the latest of his 70th birthday albums Nelson Freire turns to Chopin. The programme is Chopin public and private, one-half concerto, one-half solo works. The Piano Concerto No. 2 is at its best ...

LENOX — Two outstanding Romantic piano concertos are being featured this weekend at Tanglewood: the Piano Concerto No. 2 of Frédéric Chopin, at 8 p.m., July 22, and the Second Piano Concerto of ...

Many great composers go through periods of significant self-doubt and introspection – particularly when embarking on a major new work. For Chopin, though, there was a sense of abandonment – naïvety, ...

The veteran Brazilian virtuoso Nelson Freire crowns his 70th birthday year with the latest in three new releases from Decca, a Chopin collection that culminates in a beautifully controlled account of ...

Pianist Jan Simon is the soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony in the Piano Concerto No. 2, by Chopin. Vladimir Valek is the conductor. And after the Chopin, Fred takes a look at some recent emails ...

When you don't have an orchestra to accompany you, so you just play the whole thing yourself... This pianist learnt every orchestral part of a Chopin concerto, so he could accompany his own ...

Yeol Eum Son performs Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland, alongside Tasmanian composer Maria Grenfells' Tarraleah and Mendelssohn's iconic ...

My immediate reaction to the opening track – the first of the Four Scherzos – was ‘fast, furious, fantastic fingers, with very little breathing space for any question-and-answer phrasing’. The opening ...

Building a Library: Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor. Frédéric Chopin composed this glorious concerto in 1829 when he was 20 and before he ...

MANILA — Internationally acclaimed pianist Cecile Licad will return to the Manila Metropolitan Theater on Sept. 24 for a concert with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) under music director ...