Nice story/podcast from my friends at WQXR today lamenting the current state of the encore in classical music. “It’s a failure of imagination and it’s a failure of artistic expression”…
Tag: <span>Fryderyk Chopin</span>
Celebrating Fryderyk Chopin’s birthday today with a gripping performance by pianist Hung-Kuan Chen, of the two Op. 62 Nocturnes. Chen played them in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio for a…
Revisiting a startling discovery from the Radio Chopin series… Take a listen to Chopin’s A Stranger Here Himself… “A stranger I came, A stranger I depart…” These opening lines of…
Episode 50 of Radio Chopin considers the saga of the wonderful Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter…“My parents met through Chopin’s music. It was during a party. Fifty years ago. My…