Individually and collectively, the Chopin etudes represent a formidable mountain that several famous pianists have refrained from climbing. In his new Grammy-nominated album of the Opp. 10 and 25, ...

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 ...

If you say you want a revolution, look no farther than pianist Andre Watts. Before he tackles Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto this hour, Watts plays snippets of that 1800s revolutionary composer, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Yunchan Lim took first prize in the Van Cliburn Competition in 2022 he was the youngest ever winner at ...

Concert pianist, Warren Mailley-Smith, recently became the first British pianist to perform the complete works of Chopin in one series of concerts, from memory. He continues his successful monthly ...

Nor could jury members avoid reckoning with Kevin Chen’s freakish virtuosity in the Chopin Etudes Op. 10, musical considerations aside. Although I don’t find Miyu Shindo’s artistry particularly ...

Frederic Chopin began composing his 27 piano etudes when he was 19 years old. They are technical exercises, systematically moving from one petrifying set of challenges to the next. Of course, when ...

Every great pianist learns the Chopin etudes and many pianists venture to play a few of them in public. But it is the rare keyboard athlete who dares to play them all in one sitting and before a live ...