People have been singing ballads since the beginning of human history, and poets have been writing them for almost that long. But it took Frederic Chopin to turn the ballad (or ballade, as he called ...

Frederic Chopin (1810–1849) composed almost exclusively for the piano. Every work written by this Polish-born son of a French father and Polish mother featured the piano in some way. It was presented ...

The Four Ballades, composed between 1831 and 1842, are perhaps the most perfect examples of Chopin's instinctive sense of musical shape and tonal organisation. The sheer technical finesse of his piano ...

Nocturnes, Movements: No. 4 in F, Op. 15/1 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano Nocturnes, Movements: No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48/1 Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer ...

Even now, performances of the masterpieces of the 19th-century piano repertoire on keyboards of the composer’s time are not exactly commonplace, and when Cyril Huvé made his recordings of Chopin’s ...

This epic Chopin ballade takes its time to get going, but once it does you'll be completely swept along. Chopin initially composed his set of one-movement ballades between 1831 and 1842, and quickly ...

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 ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Gianandrea Noseda London Symphony Orchestra Seong-Jin Cho, Piano (4) Ballades Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Seong-Jin Cho, Piano It is ...

This resource comprises a complete Sibelius Score for Frederic Chopin’s Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Opus 38 for piano, currently on the AQA A Level Music specification as part of Strand C, the Piano ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How did Chopin play the piano? A veil of mystery will always stand between us and composers who lived before ...