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 ...

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho became the first South Korean to win First Prize at the Warsaw International Chopin Competition in 2015. Following that award, he immediately recorded Chopin’s First Piano ...

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 music world has been awash with 200th anniversary celebrations of Frederic Chopin’s birth, but surely none as free-wheeling as Sunday’s night’s marathon at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park ...

A humble piano that birthed some of composer Frédèric Chopin’s greatest pieces is the peg for a meditation on romanticism in this beguiling study. Composer and pianist Kildea (Benjamin Britten) ...

The second Nashville International Chopin Piano Competition hosted 40 pianists from over 20 countries. Guangbin Wang, a 23-year-old blind pianist from China, won first place in the Artist category.

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I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...

Music City isn't just the home of country music, but is also a hub for some of today's most talented and well-respected classical musicians and classically-trained performers. Surprisingly, though, ...

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 ...

The Chopin Competition is an astonishing feat of athleticism showcasing the finest piano players in the world Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include ...