Tag Archive 'Mazurkas'

Chopin Birthday Edition: Mini Bio Part 1

Posted in Chopin Birthday, Mazurka, Mazurkas, Mini Bio on Mar 1st, 2013

Images from “Chopin’s Europe” courtesy Hanna Komarnicki

Fryderyk Chopin composed his Mazurka in A Minor Opus 7 No. 2 in Poland though it was published later, in France. We know this because an early version of it was discovered in …

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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 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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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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Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 6, No. 2

Posted in Arthur Greene, Mazurkas, Recordings on Mar 4th, 2008

Arthur Greene plays
As Chopin Project Artistic Director Arthur Greene heads off to Novi Sad, Serbia, to judge and perform in the Isidor Bajic Memorial Competition, he leaves us a taste of his masterful Chopin interpretation with this performance of the …

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