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…
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Not that it really matters to anyone outside of the milestone-crazed classical music world, but thought I’d pass on this release from my old colleague Frederick Slutsky of the Chopin…
Celebrating the 111th birthday of the great Chilean-born pianist (and later a longtime resident of Douglaston, NY) Claudio Arrau by revisiting one of our “Great Chopinists” episodes from Radio Chopin. Listen to the episode here or read below:
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…
“So it has come to this: 200 years, 200 stories, and now our year of Chopin celebrations is out of time. And just what have we learned? To tell this…
Hard to believe we’re three-quarters of the way through Radio Chopin. Here’s episode 150. Listen to it here, or read below: Episode 150: Saved by the Choir Charles Gounod’s opera,…
So, for episode 100 of Radio Chopin, we thought we’d visit Chopin’s original home, in the Polish town of Zelazowa Wola. “Today, trees – and pianos – remain the…
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…
“How much would you pay for a piano lesson with Chopin? His fee in 1832 was 20 francs. Highway robbery if you’re an ordinary piano teacher – but the instructor…