In the latest of his 70th birthday albums Nelson Freire turns to Chopin. The programme is Chopin public and private, one-half concerto, one-half solo works. The Piano Concerto No. 2 is at its best ...

Many great composers go through periods of significant self-doubt and introspection – particularly when embarking on a major new work. For Chopin, though, there was a sense of abandonment – naïvety, ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 5 January 2015. Join John Brunning on Classic FM Drive after 6pm each weekday to hear a track from this album. The pianist Nelson Freire turned 70 in October 2014 and ...

The veteran Brazilian virtuoso Nelson Freire crowns his 70th birthday year with the latest in three new releases from Decca, a Chopin collection that culminates in a beautifully controlled account of ...

Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter's first disc under her new contract with Linn is inevitably devoted to the composer with whom she has been most closely associated since winning the silver medal at ...

Ingrid Fliter, the young Argentine pianist, was born to play Chopin, of whose music she has already released two outstanding CDs for EMI. She will be including the 24 Preludes Op 28 in her Wigmore ...

Building a Library: Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor. Frédéric Chopin composed this glorious concerto in 1829 when he was 20 and before he ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano Royal Scottish National Orchestra Elim Chan, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano Royal Scottish ...

American pianist Eric Lu performed Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantasy and Piano Concerto No. 2 at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Oct. 18.

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho became the first South Korean to win First Prize at the Warsaw International Chopin Competition in 2015. Following that award, he immediately recorded Chopin’s First Piano ...

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