The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin – Hear, Share, See, Play, Discover More Chopin . . . Infinitely Listenable
Posted in Chopin Competition, Chopin Currency, Grigory Sokolov, Krystian Zimerman, Lang Lang, Preludes, Yundi Li on Apr 18th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
When Fame Can’t Cross the Atlantic
New York Times – United States
Fascinating story (and review) of Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, lionized in Europe; barely known in America….
…Classical music is supposedly universal. Language
Posted in Chopin Currency, Chopiniana, Dance, Evgenia Rubinova, Heroic Polonaise, Illinois Symphony, Jerome Robbins, Kirov Ballet, Lang Lang, Opera North Orchestra, Sa Chen on Apr 8th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Though Hyde did appear, Lang Lang mostly Jekyll
Chicago Tribune – United States
Chicago critic decides there are two sides – or perhaps two personas – in the Chinese virtuoso:
…More and more I am
Posted in Chopin Currency, Dariusz Pawlas, Emanuel Ax, Etudes, guitar, Lang Lang, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Project Launch, Segundo Pastor on Apr 2nd, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Project Launch to host Autism Benefit Concert
Woodlands Online, LLC – The Woodlands,TX,USA
A preview of a benefit concert by Dariusz Pawlas for Project Launch – a Texas-based organization that While the April concert centers …
Posted in Artur Rubinstein Piano Competition, Chopin Currency, Etudes, Ferdinand Hiller, Howard Shelley, Irina Zahherenkova, Israel Philharmonic, Lang Lang, Valentina Lisitsa on Mar 27th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Rubinstein Piano Competition / The heat that shuffled the deck
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Bravos for the competitors, brickbats for the orchestra, in the latest dispatch from Tel Aviv:
…Contestant Irina Zahharenkova, for instance, chose
Posted in Ballades, Chopin Currency, Dixie State College, George Sand, Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Lang Lang, Lowri Blake, Nancy Allred, WordStage Vermont, Yundi Li on Mar 22nd, 2008
Chopin & George Sand
Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Barre,VT,USA
A preview of a WordStage Vermont production of “Frédéric & George,” — “an evening of letters, diaries, and memoirs penned by these two paradoxically matched lovers and …
Posted in Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Artur Rubinstein, Ben Agosto, Chopin Currency, fiction, figure skating, Ice Dancing, Lang Lang, Mazurkas, Nocturnes, Tanith Belbin, Yundi Li on Mar 18th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Belbin, Agosto taking a classical approach
Boston Globe – United States
Chopin turns out to be the missing ingredient in the ice-dancing tandem’s Quest for Gold….
…[Tanith] Belbin and [Ben] Agosto are the most successful
Posted in Chopin Currency, Etudes, Frederica von Stade, Lang Lang, Marilyn Horne, Pauline Viardot, Yundi Li on Mar 17th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Lauded opera legend Viardot honored in tailor-made show
Examiner.com – USA
Rave review for theatrical/music program dedicated to Chopin amie Pauline Viardot (see previous entry):
…Their combined brilliance is astounding. Two of America’s greatest living
Posted in arrangements, Ballades, Cecile Licad, Chopin Currency, Evgenia Rubinova, Fantaisie-Impromptu, fiction, Heroic Polonaise, Kurikinton Fox, Lang Lang, Mazurkas, Piano Concertos, Yundi Li on Mar 15th, 2008
Chopin Video of the Day:
Kurikinton Fox – F.Chopin – fantasy impromptu in Guitar!!!
Not bad at all!
This is Fantasy Impromptu AKA Gino’s piece. These guys did this in g-tar…Amazing:D.
music is everything, everything is music – http://fluteguitar.multiply.com/ …
Posted in Chopin Currency, Dance, Etudes, fiction, Heroic Polonaise, Jerome Robbins, journals, Lang Lang, Martha Argerich, Mazurkas, New York City Ballet, Oliver Sacks on Mar 14th, 2008
Kicking against convention: a scene from The Concert, a clever and …
This is London – London,England,UK
Another one of Jerome Robbins’ famous interpretations of Chopin, from the New York City Ballet performance at the London Coliseum….(be sure to read …
Posted in Alexander Tharaud, Artur Rodzinski, Chopin Currency, Etudes, Eun Joo Chung, Frederic Mompou, Hans Graf, Impromptu (movie), Lang Lang, Paul Badura-Skoda, Piano Concertos, Preludes, Vienna State Opera Orchestra on Mar 7th, 2008
Chopin News, Previews, Rants, and Reviews:
Yesterday we brought you two views of Yundi Li; today it’s the “other” superstar Chinese pianist’s turn. Mark Swed of the LA Times is both impressed and appalled:
…Tuesday night, he
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 …
Posted in Chopin Currency, In-Ae Ha, Lang Lang, Neeme Jarvi, New Jersey Symphony, Piano Concertos, Richard Schwin, Scherzos, technology, WUOL, Yundi Li 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 …
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