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Posted in Chopin, classical, Musicology, Nocturnes, piano on Jun 2nd, 2009
…“Today’s entry takes us into far more familiar Chopin territory. The Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9 No. 2 comes from around 1830, -after Chopin had left
Posted in Noel McRobbie, rare & early works, Recordings on Jan 12th, 2009
“One is loath to believe that the echo of Chopin’s magic music can ever fall upon unheeding ears. He may become old-fashioned, but, like Mozart, he will remain eternally beautiful.”
Even for a piece barely more than a minute in …
Posted in piano, Polina Khatsko, Recordings, Waltzes 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
Posted in Chopin, classical, Dmitri Vorobiev, rare & early works, Recordings, Variations on Feb 20th, 2008
This rare bit of Chopiniana was supposedly written after violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini came through Warsaw in the summer of 1829, a concert we know that Chopin attended. A month later he graduated from the Higher School of Music in …
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 …
Posted in Chopin, piano, rare & early works, Recordings on Dec 18th, 2007
…“In Warsaw, when Chopin was growing up, the social scene was extremely active, and anyone who wasn’t sick would go to dance parties almost every night. And the star of these events was usually Chopin, because he was
Posted in Barcarolles, Chopin, classical, piano, Recordings on Dec 12th, 2007
This is one of the last pieces that Chopin played in public. The excellent notes from the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s website set the stage:
…When in 1846 Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) completed the Barcarolle, the last work of its relatively large
Posted in Chopin, piano, Polonaises, Recordings on Dec 12th, 2007
“The very first piece on the program is a piece that Chopin wrote when he was seven years old. It’s very typical of the music that was being written at that time in Warsaw…a little Polonaise…with even a little virtuosic …
Posted in Chopin, classical, Musicology on Dec 11th, 2007
As you look through the entries and listings of Chopin’s keyboard works on these pages, you may run into this funny “KK” designation, particularly in the early recitals. It stands for the Kobylanska Katalog, and it’s assigned to works by …
Posted in Chopin, classical, piano, Recordings on Nov 24th, 2007
Experience the musical life of Fryderyk Chopin through his complete works for solo piano: from his earliest surviving work, a polonaise written at age 7, through his last mazurka penned in 1849.…
Posted in Chopin, classical, Musicology, piano, Recordings on Nov 23rd, 2007
The Chopin Project began as an ambitious live-concert-and-symposium series at the University of Michigan’s acclaimed School of Music, Theatre & Dance devoted to exploring the entirety of Fryderyk Chopin’s works for solo piano: Through a series of nine concerts …
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