On the third instalment of his Chopin series, Louis Lortie precedes what is a strikingly powerful account of the Third Sonata with a series of nocturnes and impromptus. He has taken particular care ...

Chopin was born 200 years ago on Monday, but it’s a tricky anniversary to celebrate. His oeuvre, almost exclusively for piano, offers little scope for repackaging. There is nothing to be dug up or ...

Nocturnes, Movements: No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48/1 Vesselin Stanev, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Nocturnes, Movements: No. 14 in F sharp minor, Op. 48/2 Vesselin ...

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 ...

Following recitals of Beethoven’s piano sonatas in 2017, pianist Paik Kun-woo has taken up a new challenge this year -- studying the world of Chopin through his nocturnes. On Tuesday, Paik released a ...

Nelson Goerner’s recent performance of Skryabin’s Piano Concerto at the BBC Proms is fresh in the memory, as indeed is this all-Chopin recital he gave at London’s Wigmore Hall last autumn. Goerner, in ...

Japanese pianist and composer Leiki Ueda has discovered a resemblance between a soaring melody in a Chopin nocturne, and the Disney theme to Winnie the Pooh. At one of the melodic climaxes of the ...

Though the multinational labels apparently remain intent on signing up more young pianists who might sell discs as much on their looks as on their talent, it is good to see that the recording career ...

A sticker on the cover notes that in this two-CD set "the greatest of all living Chopin interpreters records the composer's best-loved works for the first time". Greatest? Best? Two big claims, but ...