Chopin and the Prelude The elements of music to consider Continuation of the elements of music to consider Performing and composing ideas ...

The pianist couldn’t hold back tears as she played one of the world’s most moving pieces of music. A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin’s ...

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 ...

Though his repertory ranges from Couperin right up to Kagel, Chopin seems to be a speciality of Tharaud's. This disc of the Preludes follows an earlier one devoted to the Waltzes and certainly his ...

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 ...