Radio 3's Chopin Experience was a weekend of programmes dedicated to Chopin, exploring his life and times, the enduring popularity of his music, and his musical legacy. Who was Chopin? Listen to ...

American Eric Lu is the newest winner of the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland.

Since the pandemic began, playwright-pianist-performer Hershey Felder has been using his time off the road turning many of his well-traveled solo plays about famous composers into increasingly ...

An alternative version of Chopin’s famously morose piano work, but less solemn and more… trippy. The famous third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.2 actually began life as a ‘Funeral March’, or ...

If you're talking funeral music, no one did it quite like Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer born 200 years ago Monday. Chances are, you've heard snippets of his musical evocation of doom and gloom ...

Documentary which follows young pianist James Rhodes on a journey to Warsaw, Paris and London to discover the women whose voices had such a powerful influence on Chopin. Show more Documentary about ...

Chopin, who wrote mostly piano solos, died aged 39 in France in 1849. A new piece of music believed to be by the Polish composer Frederic Chopin has been discovered nearly 200 years after it was ...

Tsarist Russia berated it as subversive, Nazi Germany banned it outright and to this day, for Poles, the cascading notes of Frederic Chopin still symbolise their country's long struggle for ...