Nocturnes are night music, evoking calm or dreams — sometimes troubled wakefulness or even nightmares. Chopin’s, composed ...

The piano is present in all of them, and most of them are for solo piano. In spite of poor health and a short life, his works include 27 etudes, 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes, 58 mazurkas, 17 polonaises, ...

Chinese pianist and conductor Lin Wan launched a nine-day solo piano tour across five Chinese cities - Zhuhai, Shenzhen, ...

In a musical landscape increasingly saturated with spectacle and sameness, the Tbilisi Piano Fest (June 17–28, 2025) offers a ...

A music review by Shirley Politzer More than 2,500 fans filled the Opera House Concert Hall for a memorable solo performance.

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Pianist William Yang is the winner of this year’s National Chopin Competition, an event founded by the Chopin Foundation of ...

Frédéric Chopin has been afforded pride of place, naturally, seated at his piano, performing one of his Polonaises, most likely his Polonaise in A major, the “Military Polonaise” later ...

Chopin’s genius was not in spectacle. He was not a showman like Liszt, nor a revolutionary like Beethoven. He whispered what others screamed. He wrote for the intimate moment – the sigh before sleep, ...

Monsieur Chopin at People’s Light Theatre checks ... making use of mazurkas, waltzes, sonatas, polonaises, études, and instrumental ballades (Chopin’s unique contribution as a genre). Familiar ...

At the same time, Chopin was 9 when the original of this piano was built. What you can hear at the beginning is the totally different color from what we know today.

After intermission, Lang Lang turned to a selection of Chopin’s “Mazurkas,” exploring the intricate interplay between the Polish folk dance rhythms and Polish traditional classical music.