This epic Chopin ballade takes its time to get going, but once it does you'll be completely swept along. Chopin initially composed his set of one-movement ballades between 1831 and 1842, and quickly ...
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 ...
Performance taken from Jae-Hyuck Cho's new album on Orchid Classics Recently released on Orchid Classics is an album of Chopin's music by Korean pianist and organist Jae-Hyuck Cho. It includes ...
102 Chopin, Frederic: Ballade in F Major, Op. 38 / Piano 103 Chopin, Frederic: Ballade in A Flat Minor, Op. 47 / Piano 201 Chopin, Frederic: Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52 / Piano 202 Chopin, Frederic: ...
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Chopin's Ballade clearly tells a story, and yet that story differs for each person who hears or plays it. Pianist Peter Donohoe heads a cast of people whose lives have been shaped and changed by ...
"While I get to play music from many different eras, Chopin remains at the heart of my concert life," says Charles Richard-Hamelin, who has just released Ballades & Impromptus, his third all-Chopin ...
The Chinese pianist Yundi Li, popularly known simply as Yundi, let his hands drop dramatically from the keyboard after a powerful passage toward the end of Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F Minor. The ...
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 ...