Frédéric Chopin wrote some of the most famous piano music ever, but where should you start? Our handy guide will show you what to listen out for and what to go for next. Chopin and the piano go ...

The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

Most pianists, amateur or professional, have some Chopin in their repertoire. As one very much of the former variety, I went along to the UK’s first Chopin piano weekend – and here’s what I learned.

Though not the most imaginative take on the 21 nocturnes, the French pianist captures Chopin’s music as it was conceived on a superb-sounding 1836 Pleyel Chopin composed 21 nocturnes, 18 of which were ...

The Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition is one of the oldest and most prestigious music competitions in the world. It is also among the group of few monographic piano competitions ...

Moments when sound is absent are filled with flow and breath. I am still searching for ways to convey music more beautifully.

The last piano on which Frederic Chopin played and composed in Paris is being renovated by a U.S. expert who is giving it back its original mid-19th century characteristics. Paul McNulty is spending ...

"For nearly 100 years the competition has not only shaped the history of global piano music but has also been Poland's trademark in culture,' Cienkowska told reporters in Warsaw on Tuesday. "We are ...

“Funnily enough, I never played Chopin as a student,” he says on the phone from London. “I didn’t understand the music, I didn’t like it … I was playing lots of Bach and lots of 20th century, those ...

“Dearly beloved father; it would be easier for me to express my feelings in musical phrases...” —Seven-year-old Chopin in a letter to his father. The name of Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) needs no ...

This October, renowned Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino will step on Poland’s Warsaw Philharmonic Hall stage in the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition. Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino performs ...