November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...

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, ...

The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

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 ...

Yeol Eum Son performs Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland, alongside Tasmanian composer Maria Grenfells' Tarraleah and Mendelssohn's iconic ...

My immediate reaction to the opening track – the first of the Four Scherzos – was ‘fast, furious, fantastic fingers, with very little breathing space for any question-and-answer phrasing’. The opening ...

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 ...

Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan are well paired in this disc of sonatas by composers better known for piano music, both writing for cellists who were their close friends. Rachmaninov’s mammoth ...

(3) Waltzes, Movements: C sharp minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 2, 'Funeral March' Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano Ballade No. 4 ...

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 ...