Chopin wrote most of his 24 Preludes on the Island of Majorca. Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt is repeating the experience, not on Majorca, but on the island of Langeland, in Denmark. She plays ...

Schumann, whose compositional gift for description extended to words, aptly referred to Chopin’s music as “a cannon buried in flowers.” A powerful tension often simmers beneath the surface of Chopin’s ...