Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
A Chopin extravaganza
Times Online – UK
Nice Times of London summation of the BBC Radio 3 Chopin Experience:
After the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky Experiences and the Bach Christmas it’s time for Frédéric Chopin to
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Chopin News, Rants, Raves, and Reviews:
Two piano stars, but only one dazzles
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
No, it’s *not* Lang Lang; this time Yundi Li is being compared to “Macedonian wonder Simon Trpceski:”
Beneath the metallic
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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 …
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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 …
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