The mazurka, a traditional Polish dance, acts as a siren to Poles far and wide. Janina Fialkowska, born in Canada but half-Polish, says that in playing the mazurkas of Chopin she has been afforded “a ...

Fliter and Chopin go together as naturally as Rolls and Royce or Marks and Spencer. Since 2008 and her early recordings for EMI she has won superlative reviews. After her sparky B minor Sonata and ...

Stephen Aron is a world-renowned classical guitarist who founded Oberlin’s Classical Guitar program in 1992. He is a groundbreaking figure in the world of classical guitar recordings, publishing the ...

Finding different programming formats during a bicentenary year awash with Chopin CDs has doubtless been a challenge to any pianist, but Cédric Tiberghien has devised a telling mix on this disc. He ...

If there’s one genre that captures the essence of Chopin, it’s surely the Mazurka. These triple-time dances seem modest on the surface; usually there’s an opening melody, a contrasting middle bit ...

"It's my little secret, but it also helps me focus," Prokopowicz said, referring to the long moment of silence which preceded his performance in the second round of the competition. "I'm glad I had ...

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The 19-year-old pianist was born in the Israeli city of Netanya, where he spent the first four years of his life. His older sister was his first music teacher, and he began his formal music education ...