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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First-stage auditions continued on the third day of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, with seventeen contestants performing their recitals consisting of an etude, a nocturne, ...

Technical brilliance and polished playing from pianist Lang Lang, in his latest album of Chopin. Album of the Week, 15 October 2012 Chopin's masterful Etudes are packed full of character, charm, and ...

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 ...

In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...