The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin – from the Studio of Arthur Greene
Posted in Beatrice Feo, Chopin Currency, Dance, Diavolo, Mazurkas, Nocturnes, Richard Goode, Tomoko Mukaiyama on Feb 29th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Diavolo to defy the laws of physics Saturday
Preview of Telluride appearance by innovative LA Dance Troupe incorporating Chopin into their latest show: “Diavolo is comprised of dancers, gymnasts, actors and rock climbers who perform together like…
Posted in Alfred Brendel, Chopin Currency, George Sand, Marie Wodzinski, Nocturnes on Feb 28th, 2008
New, Reviews, and Previews:
Celebrated pianist Brendel to take final bows with Cleveland Orchestra
What will undoubtedly be the first of many “career-retrospective” items about Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel as he begins his farewell tour of the USA. In the article…
Posted in Polina Khatsko, Recordings, Waltzes, piano on Feb 28th, 2008
Chopin’s third waltz has been called a “piece full of melancholy, gloom and grief, expressed in mournful simplicity.”
Though, according to the Vancouver Chopin Society,
The composer Stephen Heller related that Chopin called this slow (Lento) waltz his favorite. When Heller…
Posted in Anime, Chopin Card, Chopin Currency, Lang Lang, Mazurkas, Oliver Sacks, Peter Petris, Richard Goode, Waltzes on Feb 27th, 2008
Chopin Commentary, News, Reviews, & Previews
Celebrated neurologist and author Oliver Sacks responds to New York Times’ readers queries about “amusic” migraine auras. Sacks recounts a passage from his best-selling book “Musicophilia…”
New York Times – United States
On the…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Chopin coin, Chopiniana, Dance, Les Sylphides, Mazurkas, Mikhail Fokine, Reverie Romantique, Sergei Diaghilev, St. Petersburg Ballet, Vassily Primakov on Feb 26th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
St. Petersburg Ballet pirouettes into the PAC
Well-written review from the UM-St. Louis student paper giving high marks and providing good context for the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater performance….”The program opened with one of the dance masterpieces…
Posted in Auckland Philharmonic, Chopin Currency, Christian Knapp, Etudes, Halo3, Mûza Rubackyté, Peter Jablonski, Piano Concertos, Raindrop Prelude, Simon Trpčeski, Thomas Pandolfi on Feb 25th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Review: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at Auckland Town Hall
Lithuanian pianist Mûza Rubackyté getting some nice attention from the Kiwis: “The opening pages of Chopin’s E minor Piano Concerto can be worryingly stolid, but not on this occasion, with…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Ivo Pogorelich, Yundi Li on Feb 24th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
RAVE review of video release of a 1987 recital in a castle in Turin, Italy, of “Croatian superstar at his peak,” with special praise for his Chopin performances: “Pogorelich opens with Chopin’s moody,…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Manila, Philippine Philharmonic, Preludes, Rudolf Golez, Vladimir Horowitz, Yakov Flier, You Tube on Feb 23rd, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
A unique mixture in Manila: old Vienna with indigenous Filipino culture. The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, led by guest Austrian conductor Ernest Hoetz, performs a traditional Vienna New Year’s Day Concert on Feb. 25th, featuring Rudolf…
Posted in Impromptus, Olga Kleiankina, Recordings, classical, piano on Feb 23rd, 2008
Today the Chopin Project spotlight falls on Russian-born Michigan pianist Olga Kleiankina, performing the First Impromptu (in A-flat, Op. 29, No. 1) by Chopin. By its very title “Impromptu” is supposed to mean just that — just a perky, playful little…
Posted in Allie Hughes, Chopin Currency, Click for Lessons, Diana Fanning, Nocturnes, Ryan Stewart, Scherzos, Yundi Li on Feb 22nd, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
Well-traveled Middlebury-based pianist offers a recital in the Vermont state capital with an emphasis on Chopin: “I have chosen pieces that I have loved for years, and I think they illustrate different aspects of…
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Byron Janis, Chopin Currency, George Sand, Jacky Terrason, Jose Limon, Mazurkas, Sarah Stackhouse on Feb 21st, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
Byron Janis Celebrates 80th Birthday 3/10 in Concert with Hensley …
Celebrated Chopin interpreter (and more recently, composer of Broadway songs) Byron Janis is set to present two shows – celebrating his 80th birthday (and Chopin’s 198th!)…
Posted in Alexander Kanchaveli, Artur Rubinstein, Ballades, Chopin Currency, Cédric Tiberghien, Markus Groh, Nocturnes, Piano Concertos, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, pattison piano on Feb 20th, 2008
Chopin Reviews & Previews:
Ivan Hewett reviews Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Cédric Tiberghien at …
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
French pianist Cedric Tiberghein receives rave reviews for his Chopin Ballades at his recital at London’s Wigmore Hall; critic is less enamored of his Beethoven…
He glided…
Posted in Chopin, Dmitri Vorobiev, Recordings, Variations, classical, rare & early works on Feb 20th, 2008
Posted in Andrezj Panufnik, Chopin Currency, Chopin Memorial, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Hee Ah Lee, Lim Dong-hyek, Piano Sonata No. 2, Simon Trpčeski on Feb 19th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
Pianist Lim Dong-hyek Emerges From Slump With Bach
Hearing Bach’s Goldberg Variations used in a computer game prompts 23-year old Korean star (studying at Juilliard) to break out of artistic doldrums. Known as an interpreter of Chopin,…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Kimball Gallagher, Lim Dong-hyek, Rudolf Golez, downloads, photos on Feb 18th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
The Vienna New Year’s Day Concert transported to the Philippines, featuring Filipino pianist Rudolf Golez, sole prize winner of the Chopin competition in Kuala Lumpur….
Inquirer.net – Philippines
28 and Frederic Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise Brillante”…
Posted in Boris Konovavlov, Chopin Currency, Christian Zacharias, Emanuel Ax, Ingrid Fliter, Minnesota Orchestra, Orli Shaham, Piano Concertos, Piotr Anderszewski, Sasha Grynyuk, St. Paul CO, SymphonyCast, William Kapell on Feb 16th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews & Previews:
Pianist Boris Konovavlov will perform and discuss a special program, “The Unknown Chopin” in Yellowknife….
Northern News Services (subscription) – Yellowknife,Northwest Territories,Canada
“This time it will be some special event, because the whole evening will be…
Posted in Alain Lefèvre, Chopin Currency, Hershey Felder, Monsieur Chopin, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Pedja Muzijevic, Piano Concertos on Feb 15th, 2008
Chopin, News, Reviews, and Previews:
Oboe and piano
Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Barre,VT,USA
The program features works by Chopin, Donizetti, Liszt, and Schumann. Award-winning Gallant is one of the world’s few virtuoso solo and chamber music …
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Posted in Chopin Currency, In-Ae Ha, Lang Lang, Neeme Jarvi, New Jersey Symphony, Piano Concertos, Richard Schwin, Scherzos, WUOL, Yundi Li, technology on Feb 14th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
Finding the key Pianist marks 35 years of teaching
Waukegan News Sun – Waukegan,IL,USA
Frédéric Chopin wrote four scherzi for the piano. The first three are especially dark and dramatic. The composer Robert Schumann remarked of them, …
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Posted in Artur Rubinstein, Chopin Bicentennial, Chopin Currency, Eternal Sonata, Jean-Frederic Neuberger, Rafał Blechacz on Feb 13th, 2008
Chopin Bicentennial (Chopin2010) News:
Thenews.pl – Warsaw,Poland
The programme of the Chopin Year in 2010, the bicentenary…
Posted in Alexander Tharaud, Chopin Currency, Hugh Grant, Impromptu (movie), Ingrid Fliter, Judy Davis, Sonia Rubinsky, The Chopin Manuscript on Feb 12th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
CHOPIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 28; 3 Nouvelles Etudes; Prelude in A-flat …
Audiophile Audition – USA
“Moravec–and now Tharaud–remind us how much of the Romantic keyboard rhetoric the Preludes subsume.”
Tharaud performs his recital on an eight-year-old Steinway D,…
Posted in Ballades, Catherine McKay, Charles Foreman, Chopin Currency, Garrick Ohlsson, Hugh Grant, Impromptus, Nocturnes, Omar Soffan on Feb 11th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Restoring Luster to Two 20th-Century Dance Legends
New York Times – United States
These mazurkas are danced to Chopin; Limón choreographed them after his company had enjoyed huge success in Poland, where he had visited the home of…
Posted in Chopin, Mazurkas, Xiaofeng Wu on Feb 10th, 2008
The Mazurkas, like the Polonaises, are the compositions closest to Chopin’s Polish roots. In fact, many Chopin scholars say the Mazurkas are Chopin at his most personal, experimental, and confessional: In his Mazurkas, you get to know the very soul…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Franco-American Heritage Center, George Sebastian Lopez, Hershey Felder, Monsieur Chopin, Orli Shaham, Roy Berko on Feb 10th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews & Previews:
Composer will be in audience
SunJournal.com (subscription) – Lewiston,ME,USA
… Franco-American Heritage Center to hear pianist George Sebastian Lopez perform one of his works, along with compositions by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. …
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Posted in Brian Dollinger, Carl Michael Angeleo, Chopin Currency, Jan Milosz Zarzyck, Muscatine (IA) Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Hunter on Feb 9th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
A look at the mid-Michigan arts scene
The Saginaw News – MLive.com – Saginaw,MI,USA
Carl Michael Angelo, the director of music at First Congregational Church in Saginaw, teams up with former English/literature teacher Sharon Hunter for a program…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Diana Damrau, Ivo Pogorelich, Orfeo Records, Richard Goode on Feb 8th, 2008
Chopin News & Reviews:
Clara and Robert Schumann/ Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn/ Chopin …
Guardian Unlimited – UK
Her choice of lieder is questionable – Fanny Mendelssohn’s are dreadful, Chopin’s aren’t much better -but what is so amazing is the restrained, …
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Posted in Chopin Currency, David Jalbert, EMI Classics, Ingrid Fliter, Rafał Blechacz, Yundi Li on Feb 7th, 2008
Chopin news & reviews:
Nosowska nominated for Polish ‘Grammy’
Thenews.pl – Warsaw,Poland
The nominees in the classical music categories include Rafał Blechacz, the winner of the 2005 Chopin International Competition (for a Deutsche Grammophon CD …
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Posted in Chopin Currency, Garrison Keillor, Ingrid Fliter, Michael Costello, Piers Lane on Feb 6th, 2008
Chopin news & reviews:
Chopin inspires pianist performing at Capitol Friday
Northumberland Today – Cobourg,Ontario,Canada
With his perfect marriage between playing style and musical material, pianist Michael Costello is Chopin. Those who have seen Mr. Costello perform rave …
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Posted in Anatoly Kobrin, Chopin Airport Warsaw, Chopin Currency, Gabriela Montero, Piers Lane, Pleyel Piano, Project Gutenberg, Steinway, Van Cliburn Competition, Waleed Howrani on Feb 4th, 2008
Chopin in the News:
The secret of Gabriela Montero’s improvisations
Times Online – UK
From the improvised vocal polyphony, called discantus, of medieval times to the extravagant exhibitions of Chopin and Liszt in the salons of 19th-century …
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Posted in Chopin Currency, Corvallis (Ore.) - OSU Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Dong Hyek Lim, Ingrid Fliter on Feb 1st, 2008
Chopin in the News:
DSO, guests Remmereit and Fliter all in impeccable form
Dallas Morning News – Dallas,TX,USA
But how adequately to praise Thursday’s performance of the Chopin F minor Piano Concerto, with Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter? …
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Posted in Anime, Chopin Currency, Julien Cheriyan, Songs, Vladimir Horowitz, Wendy Nieper on Feb 1st, 2008
Chopin in the News:
Poland to Broadway
Worcester News – Worcester News, UK
In the first section Chopin was shown as a composer of songs in particular, which Wendy sang in excellent Polish. Narzeczony was a strongly accentuated …
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