How did Chopin's three sets of Études become one of the piano repertoire's most enduring and defining works? Find out with our handy guide… Chopin's reputation for piano composition is pretty ...
etudes, pieces that are monuments of technical razzle dazzle, is youthful vanity. The motivation for 40-year-old Louis Lortie to do the same is less obvious. “It’s a very old motivation, a youthful ...
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.
Internationally acclaimed Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to the Etudes of Chopin: music written to take pianists to the extremes of virtuosity while enchanting listeners ...
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Seulki Susie Yoo, DMA, is an internationally recognized pianist, whose interpretation is distinct in Romanticism music in the 19th ...
In March, Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki released Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra, his fourth album for Deutsche Grammophon. It's a collection of lesser-known repertoire, some of it entering the ...
Written in 1916, Twelve Etudes for piano Op. 33 are one of the first products of Szymanowski's post-1915 interest in absolute music and in rigorous forms. Like in Fryderyk Chopin's etudes, each piece ...
Internationally acclaimed Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to the Etudes of Chopin: music written to take pianists to the extremes of virtuosity while enchanting listeners ...