More Chopin? The bicentenary year has opened up the floodgates of Chopin recordings, but this one highlights the poetic sensibility of the French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie. It is the first volume ...

For example, the B major Nocturne, Op 32 No 1, nonchalantly slips right into Op 9 No 3 in the same key. One doesn’t have to study music theory to aurally sense the subtle unity of key relationships ...

'I'm not going to gamble the happiness I have with you for a chance at happiness with someone else - what's the point?' Ollie and Laura have been together for three years, and are one pack of reduced ...

Ten works revealing the paradox of Chopin: a composer outwardly delicate, inwardly steely; rooted in Polish dance rhythms, ...

Celebrated Russian pianist, Andrei Gavrilov, performs a recital of Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes at the 2006 Lucerne Festival, Switzerland.

From Etudes to Nocturnes – here’s the very best of Frédéric Chopin, 19th-century piano virtuoso and leading figure of the Romantic era. Frédéric Chopin is almost exclusively associated with the king ...

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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 between ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...