"Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music," by Paul Kildea. W.W. Norton, 368 pages. $27.95. Even those who are not musically inclined will find themselves reading this book ...

It is no coincidence that these two Chopin recitals arrive on each other’s heels. The prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition, held every five years, has just crowned its latest winner in ...

Pianist Rafal Blechacz's victory at the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (the first Polish performer to take the prize in 30 years) aroused plenty of interest in this young virtuoso.

The International Chopin Piano Competition is entering its final round, with performances that attract millions of viewers.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Wanda Landowska with the piano made by Juan Bauza for Frédéric Chopin(Alexander Binder (c.1914)) ...

High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...

In the winter of 1838-39, Chopin and his lover George Sand set off to the Balearic Islands to escape the Parisian winter. Chopin took with him the partially completed manuscript of his Preludes, plus ...

Like others, I tend to repeat stories, but I figure it’s okay if they’re good ones. Let me quote a story I told in a September 2019 review: In the summer of 2012, I was driving from Ann Arbor, ...

The midnight hour was fast approaching in Munich, Germany, but acclaimed pianist Alice Sara Ott was wide awake throughout a recent late-night phone interview. She spoke animatedly about music, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Following his “consistently impressive” (Gramophone) traversal of Mozart's ...