Monthly Archive for July, 2008

The Chopin Currency – July 31, 2008

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...

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The Chopin Currency – July 30, 2008

Posted in Chopin Currency on Jul 30th, 2008

I ♥ Chopin News….

How did Chopin die? It matters
The popular image is of Chopin as a frail consumptive – we should be given the chance to find out whether this is true.
Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog – music

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The Chopin Currency – July 29, 2008

Posted in Chopin Currency on Jul 29th, 2008

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Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:

Pianist Gabriela Montero revives the art of improvisation

Times Online – UK

On the eve of her Edinburgh Festival debut, a fascinating story on a fascinating personality: “Making it up …

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Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp, Op. 36: Merely a “Drawing-Room Trifle?”

Posted in Impromptus, Noel McRobbie, Performances on Jul 20th, 2008

Wessel Edition Cover page: Chopin\'s Impromptu No. 2 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 …

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The Chopin Currency – July 9th, 2008

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: …

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The Chopin Project Broadcast on Performance Today!

Posted in broadcasts, Chih-Long Hu 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 …

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the Chopin Currency – July 7th, 2008

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) …

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The Chopin Currency – July 6, 2008

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 …

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Mazurka in C Major, KK 1225-6 (1833)

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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