The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin – from the Studio of Arthur Greene
Posted in Chopin Currency on Jul 31st, 2008
Marc-André Hamelin – “a pianist of icy composure,” refuses to melt even during a warm and humid night at the Lanaudière Festival in Quebec….and a review of Chopin Chocolate from Poland…
Posted in Chopin Currency on Jul 30th, 2008
How did Chopin die? It mattersAn thought-provoking column by…
Posted in Chopin Currency on Jul 29th, 2008
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Times Online – UK
On the eve of her Edinburgh Festival debut, a fascinating story on a fascinating personality: “Making it up as you go along might…
Posted in Impromptus, Noel McRobbie, Performances on Jul 20th, 2008
For years one of the knocks on Chopin’s music is that he was a “ladies’ composer,” spinning out his piano pieces for the sighing, swooning denizens of Parisan salons, the result being that his remarkable compositions were often trivialized or…
Posted in Chih-Long Hu, Chopin Currency on Jul 9th, 2008
Chopin Broadcasts:
Waltz in A-flat, Op. 69, no. 1 “L’Adieu”
Performance Today – American Public Media
Today’s edition of Performance Today – the most popular classical-music show in the USA – will feature a performance from The Chopin Project: Chih-Long Hu’s live interpretation of Chopin’s…
Posted in Chih-Long Hu, broadcasts on Jul 9th, 2008
Today’s edition of Performance Today – the most popular classical-music show in the USA – will feature a performance from The Chopin Project: Chih-Long Hu’s live interpretation of Chopin’s Waltz in A-flat, Op. 69, no. 1 “L’Adieu”
Produced and distributed by American…
Posted in Chopin Currency on Jul 7th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
A Souvenir From Vladimir Horowitz
New York Sun – United States
A just-released “souvenir” CD from “one of the great uneven performers in all history” Vladimir Horowitz’s very last recital (from June of 1987) hits its highest points…
Posted in Chopin Currency on Jul 6th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
‘The Year of Sembrich’ features pianist Simon Mulligan as part of …
Schenectady Gazette – Schenectady,NY,USA
News of a series of events marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Polish-American soprano and vocal instructor Marcella Sembrich, (1858-1935)…
Posted in Mazurkas, Noel McRobbie on Jul 6th, 2008
“In his Mazurkas, you get to know the very soul of Poland and Chopin never forgot his home land or the poor farmers singing the Mazurkas during the time of harvest.” All right, the Piano Society’s prose on Chopin’s 58 Mazurkas may be a bit purple, but it does appear that the Mazurkas are close to Chopin’s Polish soul. Esteemed pianist and scholar Charles Rosen has also declared the Mazurkas as Chopin’s “R & D Lab” – where
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