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 ...

Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island– and dream discs –recordings that would have gone to the top of the charts if only the ...

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 ...

"Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music," by Paul Kildea. W.W. Norton, 368 pages. $27.95. Even those who are not musically inclined will find themselves reading this book ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Wanda Landowska with the piano made by Juan Bauza for Frédéric Chopin(Alexander Binder (c.1914)) ...

Concert pianist, Warren Mailley-Smith, recently became the first British pianist to perform the complete works of Chopin in one series of concerts, from memory. He continues his successful monthly ...