People have been singing ballads since the beginning of human history, and poets have been writing them for almost that long. But it took Frederic Chopin to turn the ballad (or ballade, as he called ...

As a pianist, Frederic Chopin possessed talents beyond emulation. He had an impact on other musicians entirely out of proportion to the number of concerts he gave — only 30 public performances in 30 ...

Even now, performances of the masterpieces of the 19th-century piano repertoire on keyboards of the composer’s time are not exactly commonplace, and when Cyril Huvé made his recordings of Chopin’s ...

Su performed Ballade No. 3, one of Chopin's more intricate and beloved pieces for solo piano, in the CPR Performance Studio recently. The Aurora Sentinel's recent profile of Su offers an interesting ...

This epic Chopin ballade takes its time to get going, but once it does you'll be completely swept along. Chopin initially composed his set of one-movement ballades between 1831 and 1842, and quickly ...

Or a visionary composer of sonatas and ballades, obsessed with form and counterpoint in a way that even Bach would have appreciated? Welcome to the turbulent world of Frederic Chopin. Chopin’s whole ...

Performance taken from Jae-Hyuck Cho's new album on Orchid Classics Recently released on Orchid Classics is an album of Chopin's music by Korean pianist and organist Jae-Hyuck Cho. It includes ...

"While I get to play music from many different eras, Chopin remains at the heart of my concert life," says Charles Richard-Hamelin, who has just released Ballades & Impromptus, his third all-Chopin ...