For Chopin, though, there was a sense of abandonment – naïvety ... And yet, at the same time, he was able to tackle the form of the piano concerto for the first time and come up trumps in a quite ...

November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada.

Building a Library: Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor. Frédéric Chopin composed this glorious concerto in 1829 when he was 20 and before ...

Pianist Jan Simon is the soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony in the Piano Concerto No. 2, by Chopin. Vladimir Valek is the conductor. And after the Chopin, Fred takes a look at some recent ...

Playing with the same orchestra and conductor, Cho has released his new album, Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 • Scherzi. Why have you returned to the music of Frédéric Chopin? “I didn’t ...

Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano music of the first half of the 19th century. Chopin, Grand concerto : pour le pianoforte ...

Premiered with a great success in 1830 in Warsaw the Piano Concerto No 2 in F of Chopin was actually the first he composed. The poetic second movement was inspired by a young soprano Konstancja ...

Two years ago, I heard a friend play Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor as part of ... Even when the younger pianist is racing his fingers through the allegro of Concerto No. 2 in F ...

For stage three, the semi-finals, candidates have between 45 and 55 minutes to play a full set of Mazurkas from a range of opuses, along with a choice of the Sonata No 2 ... Chopin’s two concertos to ...