People have been singing ballads since the beginning of human history, and poets have been writing them for almost that long. But it took Frederic Chopin to turn the ballad (or ballade, as he called ...
As his last couple of London recitals have demonstrated, Maurizio Pollini is on magisterial form at the moment, and this carefully planned Chopin sequence, grouping together the works of Opp 34 to 36 ...
Meet the June 2021 Classical Student Musician of the Month: pianist Ivyann Shen. Meet the June 2021 Classical Student Musician of the Month: pianist Ivyann Shen. She is a sophomore from the Emma ...
In the mid-19th century, the genre known as the piano ballade illuminated the Central European night like a flash of lightning. Invented by Chopin in 1836, its ascendancy ended in 1854 with Brahms’s ...
CHOPIN: Four Ballades; Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor (Funeral March). Andrei Gavrilov, pianist. Angel DS-37669.Another pianist being hailed as the next Horowitz? Yes, but Andrei Gavrilov just might ...
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