Dec. 8—The intellectual high point of my 19th and 20th years was paying a parking ticket at Baylor University in pennies because I felt that I did not deserve the ticket. That the fine was paid in ...

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 ...

Yang told reporters later that day he felt the same way as after any other performance. "It's always a kind of relief. I try to remember only the good moments and quickly forget what could have gone ...

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 ...

On a typical day, Hyejin Joo sits at a piano in a small Bienen practice room for about five hours, perfecting her performance of Frederic Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 in E minor. Joo, a Bienen doctoral ...

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, ...

Tamás Vásáry, the Hungarian pianist, who has died aged 92, was one of the finest interpreters of Liszt and Chopin in the ...

Pianist Jan Simon is the soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony in the Piano Concerto No. 2, by Chopin. Vladimir Valek is the conductor. And after the Chopin, Fred takes a look at some recent emails ...

Canada has produced a healthy share of classical music talent over the last few decades, including singers Maureen Forrester, Teresa Stratas, Jon Vickers and Ben Heppner, pianist Glenn Gould and ...

Ingrid Fliter, the young Argentine pianist, was born to play Chopin, of whose music she has already released two outstanding CDs for EMI. She will be including the 24 Preludes Op 28 in her Wigmore ...