To hear one of Chopin’s four ballades in a recital is thrilling. To hear all four is, well, almost unheard of. Which is why the audience at Sunday’s Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Piano and Friends ...

Frédéric Chopin wrote almost exclusively for solo piano, so the duty of commemorating his bicentennial locally has fallen to Portland's premier presenter of piano music, Portland Piano International.

Chopin’s music is a staple of the piano repertoire, studied earnestly by aspiring players and performed by almost every recitalist. It is rare, however, to encounter an all-Chopin program that ...

A balladeer is someone who tells a story in song, so you’d expect something called a ’ballade’ to be something like a story in notes. But Chopin left no clue about what stories had in mind - so ...

Henry, whose engagements have ranged from solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Wigmore Hall to collaborations with the Atlanta Symphony and the Pacifica Quartet, set the pace early.

"While I get to play music from many different eras, Chopin remains at the heart of my concert life," says Charles Richard-Hamelin, who has just released Ballades & Impromptus, his third all-Chopin ...

, an internationally known pianist who has performed solo recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London and the Kennedy Center in Washington, will perform Sunday, March 9, at the , ...

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 ...

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 ...