| 单词 | Chopin |
| 例句 | The piano music got closer; it was Chopin, one of the preludes, maybe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was a little drunk; the Chopin was slurred and fluid, the notes melting sleepily into one another. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She used to teach music lessons from our apartment, and Chopin would stream out the windows. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He stocked it with her music workbooks and sheaves of invigorating Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and a selection of Chopin. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I don’t know. I think it’s Chopin. If I could just see the music!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He’s not bombastic like Brahms, or romantic like Chopin.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The year of Chopin’s final concert, 1848, was one of huge political upheaval across Europe; it was a year of revolutions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I leapt out of bed at 5:16 a.m., awakened by Chopin's Sonata no. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A minute later, he said, “It’s Chopin. I have always liked that piece. Do you know, Calpurnia...” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His wife was playing the piano; Chopin, a prelude. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Isabelle, the music of Chopin was too mournful, and the janitor needed to stop playing it because the world was mournful enough on its own. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I grew tired of it and told her it could have been worse, that Maestro Frederic Chopin had once done the same thing at a command performance for the king and queen of Prussia. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It lingered at the edges of art music, popping up one moment in Chopin, or another in Debussy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I got up and rifled through my shoebox of CDs until I found a collection of Chopin’s nocturnes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There is a delicacy and gentleness to Chopin’s music, though, that represents the final curtain call of the age of elegance and gracefulness, of sense and sensibility. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He owned the only boom box I had ever seen, and next to it he kept a tall stack of CDs with strange words on them, like “Mozart” and “Chopin.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After a period of simplicity, Chopin was nudging music’s pendulum back towards complexity once more. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In a sixty-year career on the concert stage she tirelessly championed the music of her husband, of Brahms and of Chopin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Caroline, on the other hand, was playing Chopin by the time she was nine. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he settled in France, the quality that most pervades Chopin’s style is homesickness for his native Poland. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Of the generation that followed Beethoven, Chopin was the composer whose influence was slowest to make its impact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Harry was running his fingers over the piano keys in a dramatic thrumming riff, either Chopin or Liszt—I wasn’t sure which. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The reason for this is that, like Beethoven’s late quartets, Chopin’s music is unusually intimate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The tracks play a waltz; in my mind I hear Chopin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “There is entirely too much Chopin played in this establishment,” said Isabelle. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Mademoiselle had glided from the Chopin into the quivering love notes of Isolde’s song, and back again to the Impromptu with its soulful and poignant longing. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z As the audience entered, an organist played Chopin’s “Funeral March” on the hall’s giant pipe organ. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was very beautiful, sad music, which was how Raymie knew that it was probably Chopin and that it was probably the janitor playing it. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “I have always said no one could play Chopin like Mademoiselle Reisz!” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z The Polish composer Chopin’s heart was smuggled in a booze jar out of Paris and to a Warsaw church, where it was then stolen by Nazis before being returned. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Ill health plagued Chopin throughout his life, and in his final three years he became so weak he needed round-the-clock care; TB finally killed him in 1849. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “An entirely too gloomy one. Chopin is a proper name. Therefore, it begins with a capital C and is followed by a lowercase h.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Then she breaks into the beginning of a Chopin piece. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Listening to Chopin after the helter-skelter psychological drama of Beethoven or the theatrical bravado of Berlioz, it is as if someone has opened a window and let in some fresh, balmy evening air. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A Chinese-American, somebody’s son, was playing Chopin, which has no punctuation, no cymbals, no gongs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He plays Chopin and Schumann, as he does so often, but there’s also something of a novelty for these fingers: the Brahms Op. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Chopin would have never dreamed of subjecting an audience to all of his 24 preludes at a sitting. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Rachmaninoff were all considered among the top virtuosos of their day. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z His complete Chopin recordings have been issued in a two-disc set, including the First Piano Concerto, the Third Sonata, the 14 waltzes, selected nocturnes and mazurkas, and an incomparable account of the deceptively complex Barcarolle. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z I don’t think Chopin expected his 58 mazurkas to be widely appreciated. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z In 1911 the brilliant harpsichord pioneer Wanda Landowska discovered the piano languishing in the same drafty monastery where Chopin and Sand had stayed. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Ax is a magnificent Chopin interpreter even at normal concert hall distances, but watching him work his magic at close quarters in the Kaplan Penthouse was a particular treat. Music Review: Emanuel Ax Plays Chopin at Mostly Mozart 2010-07-30T21:24:00Z On Sunday at the 92nd Street Y she will demonstrate her distinctive musicianship and admirable technique with a program of 10 Chopin waltzes, Haydn’s Sonata in E minor and Beethoven’s “Tempest” Sonata. The Week Ahead: Feb. 27 ? Mar. 5 2011-02-25T14:59:35Z Chopin made a request to his sister, Ludwika, that she return his heart to Poland to be buried. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The dessert was Marc-André Hamelin's exquisite performance in the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, so subtle and lucid and ruminative that it was like entering the landscape of a dream. SSO's premiere of Muhly work: so far, so good 2012-01-27T17:53:05Z There we heard white-haired Arthur Rubinstein play Chopin to a sellout crowd; a few seconds into one piece a voice in the audience loudly shouted “Plus vite!” Perspective | What is it about France? A book lover revisits his past and celebrates the present 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z To a genius like Chopin, having a distinctive voice and giving vent to his inspirations were more important than achieving some level of quantifiable greatness. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Schumann was first and foremost a composer, not a virtuoso-turned-composer like Chopin or Liszt. SSO plans a romantic weekend with conductor Jun M?rkl, German classics 2010-05-05T22:17:00Z I could hear the piano cranking out a Chopin waltz, dancers were stepping over me, dripping sweat onto my suddenly freezing body, and my vision remained blurry. But what if I actually need painkillers? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Born in Canada to Polish parents, it seems natural this piano prodigy has devoted much of his career to Chopin. 16 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-02-01T22:22:04Z While not all of the works on the programs feature music by Chopin, one important highlight — Jerome Robbins’s 1969 ballet “Dances at a Gathering” — is set to 18 of his mazurkas, waltzes and études. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Witkowski will infuse a selection of Chopin’s nocturnes and preludes with improvisations inspired by jazz and Brazilian rhythms. Spare Times for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “Then they go to hear Chopin or Debussy, and they tell me, ‘This is my first classical concert.’ For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But in the Met Museum Presents event, on Thursday evening, Mr. Lang played only four modest pieces of Westernized Chinese music, filling 15 minutes of the hourlong program, alongside works by Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Review: Lang Lang at the Metropolitan Museum in the Service of Eastern Art 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Between living-room performances of Chopin and Beethoven, Herz-Sommer relates terrible days of Nazi occupation and surviving a concentration camp. ‘Oscar Shorts 2014’: 5 documentaries in 2 parts 2014-02-20T19:47:56Z Someone who won first prize at the International Chopin competition in Warsaw in 2000 is not to be lightly dismissed. Yundi | Classical review 2010-03-18T23:00:00Z Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms all “loved and had keen interest in C.P.E. Bach’s music,” Mr. Serkin adds in the recording’s liner notes. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z “Death & Harry Houdini” continues through Aug. 21 at the Chopin Theater in Chicago. ‘Death & Harry Houdini’ Makes Art Out of Magic and Mayhem 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But the exhilarating speed doesn’t seem rushed, and the many beautiful details of Chopin’s fastidious writing blossom naturally. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Tucker sings, opening her heart to the years that will, as Kate Chopin once put it, belong to her absolutely. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “Mazurkas,” set to Chopin, is an uncomplicated response to music. Dance Review: José Limón Company at Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-01-20T18:29:11Z The Chopin unfolded generously and moved with grace and inevitability. Mayron Tsong puts on a full and lively piano concert in just an hour In “Forever,” she talks of being warmly welcomed at a recent party, where an attractive man approached her and discussed Chopin. 'Forever,' a harrowing memoir with no Hollywood ending 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The march section had the relentless force of his Chopin polonaise, but with the notes in place. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z Bellini died cruelly young, at 33, but left some of the most beautiful bel canto operas, and arguably the longest legacy, affecting everyone from Chopin to Verdi to Wagner. Perspective | What exactly is bel canto? It’s a way of singing and, for some, an addiction. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z After all, Mr. Greenstein said, “you wouldn’t dream of removing performance practice from a Bach French suite or Chopin mazurka.” yMusic to Bring Its Versatility to Ecstatic Music Festival 2012-02-03T17:45:10Z In the final solo, the music sounds a bit like a Chopin prelude, and the wraparound choreography for the unaffected Stephanie Terasaki even acquires some melancholy, some emotion. Review: Brian Brooks and the Endless Spiral 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The pianist Anna Fedorova was a sensitive, poetic soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a nod to the Polish support for the Freedom Orchestra project. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The day she returns to France, she is scheduled to perform in another show about composer Frédéric Chopin. French actress Marie-Christine Barrault portrays literary lioness Marguerite Yourcenar in 'Les Yeux Ouverts' 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Keith begins paying attention after coaxing her into playing the piano at one of his classes, where she astonishes with a fiery performance of a Chopin piece. Movie Review: ‘Breathe In,’ a Tense Marital Drama 2014-03-27T22:54:05Z Mr. Anderszewski will perform the Mozart pieces in his Carnegie Hall recital this month, a program that also includes works by Chopin and Bach. A Pianist’s Warsaw: ‘Fascination and Pain’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z With classical music, for me it's always been more Chopin and Ravel than Mozart… but I'm not at all tortured. Happy to be melancholy 2011-04-02T23:02:01Z The Bach suite was unfailingly musical, each phrase shaped with dynamic contrasts and a luxurious legato that would do a Chopin nocturne proud. Review | Murray Perahia recital packed with canonic masterpieces, to uneven effect 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z He formed a special touring ensemble of excellent younger musicians, the Polish Festival Orchestra, and worked in detail to uncover the complexities and inventive touches in Chopin’s orchestra writing. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z The framed copper and silver image bears the date 1849, when Chopin died in Paris, and the stamp of Louis Auguste Bisson, a French photographer who took another photograph of Chopin. Rare photo of Chopin surfaces _ but is it real? 2011-03-10T16:31:04Z That same Chopin fantaisie, which began as a whispered rumination, expanded inexorably and achieved its full measure of turbulence. Music Review: Nikolai Lugansky Performs at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-24T22:55:00Z Chopin was an introvert, very sensitive and never theatrical. The strong and the subtle: Lugansky at UW 2011-11-09T21:23:04Z From the start, the teenage girls in my row had planned to rush the stage, which they did before and after the Chopin. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Concerts celebrating the Chopin, Schumann and Barber anniversaries, take place at a historic bar and courthouse, a Civil War fort, churches and Fernandina Beach. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z The disc, called “Fantasia,” features miniatures by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scarlatti and Scriabin and various arrangements. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z In the first movement of the Chopin Ms. Pires played the melancholic main theme with tenderness and singing tone. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Conducts Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z Short works by Chopin, Ravel, Debussy, Beethoven, Brahms and others rub shoulders. James Rhodes: Bullets and Lullabies 2010-12-26T00:05:07Z As the first Korean winner of the Chopin competition, Cho became a national sensation overnight. Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Buniatishvili won an Audience Favorite award at the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, and a second one for best performance of a Chopin piece. Khatia Buniatishvili brings Chopin program to UW 2013-02-28T23:50:09Z His mother, an amateur pianist, used to play Chopin late at night. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z They played Paganini at a church in New Orleans, then, a few years later, Chopin and Milhaud at a concert series in Oklahoma. She’s Mrs. Rogers. But Joanne Rogers Has ‘Always Been Her Own Person.’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Though most dance companies owe Chopin plenty, few have commemorated his bicentenary. Dance Review: International Stars at Damian Woetzel?s Festival in Vail 2010-08-08T23:47:00Z Chopin, you need to be a virtuoso, and you need to be a poet, but you don’t need to be an architect. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Blanca is at first smitten, then heartbroken and depressed, as George and Chopin’s family respite turns catastrophic. A Multitude of Hauntings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z A Piano Virtuoso Balanced and Buoyant There are some composers, like Chopin, whose works almost all pianists perform publicly during their careers. Music Review: Murray Perahia at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-26T22:22:02Z Especially in the Beethoven Sonata and the Chopin group, certain details and niceties of phrasing seemed sacrificed to haste. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The ballet is set to Chopin, so right for Marguerite Gautier’s era. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z Here he takes on Bach’s Italian Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” and a selection of Scherzos by Chopin. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z When he played Chopin at Alice Tully Hall in November, his rubato sometimes felt artificial, and the same exaggerated quality crept in here. Music in Review: Inon Barnatan at 92nd Street Y 2012-12-09T23:09:05Z His soft-spoken Chopin still found plenty of contrast and poetry. Pianist Yundi leads with quiet force at Disney Hall 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z After intermission, Pollini played a collection of pieces by Chopin, which took third place in the day’s revelations only because they were akin to those that he unfurled in his 2018 recital. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Uneasily elegiac, the piece folds in short quotes from Chopin and Mozart without becoming cute or emptily postmodern. Music Review: Recently Fresh Fruit, Given a Chance to Ripen 2011-05-27T23:04:58Z Perianes’ style, though, excellently suited his solo encore, Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In “Les Sylphides,” set to Chopin, Stanley has an excellent partner in the dancer Mac Twining, who also appears with him in excerpts from “Narcissus.” Review: Remaking the Ballets Russes, With a Queer Spin 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Chopin's four impromptus, often dismissed as salon pieces and rarely played as a group, completed an uncommonly interesting programme. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z These visionary, arresting and technically demanding works are like modern music equivalents of Chopin’s études. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z By 11:15, all 14 Chopin waltzes had been recorded. Max Wilcox, Grammy-Winning Record Producer, Dies at 88 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Blending jazz, ballet and Israeli folk dance idioms, this evening-length piece unfolds to a blend of Turkish and Israeli music with Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel. Dance Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He carefully crafted the group’s repertoire, which grew to include pieces by Vivaldi, Handel and Chopin. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z A Youth at Home at the Keys Benjamin Grosvenor made his New York recital debut, a program featuring Bach, Chopin and Scriabin, on Sunday at the Frick Collection. Music Review: Benjamin Grosvenor at the Frick Collection 2012-03-21T21:34:50Z So it was no shock that his control was sovereign in three Chopin Nocturnes, each slight shift in dynamics minutely calibrated, each step in his arpeggios individual but melting seductively into the others. Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Eventually, they have a falling-out, and LaFarge makes you feel the decline of this ideally modern relationship, maybe even more than Chopin’s looming physical decline. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Debussy, who revered Chopin and loved the milky harmonies and lush colorings of his piano music, prepared an edition of the composer’s works for the publisher Durand. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z It was treated well by Chopin’s family and was not used for concert performances. Chopin’s last piano gets its 19th-century features back 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The recently announced fall schedule includes compositions by Chopin, Schumann and Mendelssohn, among others. Lunchtime in London: Great Composers at St. James's 2010-08-29T10:00:00Z It’s modeled along the lines of America’s best-known Chopin ballet, Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering,” with solos, duets and quartets that show camaraderie, rivalry, fun and moodiness. Review: Three Ballets at City Center Honor Two Impresarios 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z When the piano was unveiled in Berlin in March it was played by Dudana Mazmanishvili, who performed pieces by Chopin and Beethoven. Ivory keys on Bechstein Louis XV piano dismay environmentalists 2013-06-07T17:22:53Z Franz Liszt, the other towering virtuoso pianist-composer of the 19th century, had many virtues but was almost never as subtle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusiastic, friendly dog, often too eager to please. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z As a kid in Newark, Shorter spent a lot of time listening to radio programs of classical composers, watching foreign films with subtitles and holing up in the library to read about Beethoven and Chopin. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Here rests the heart of Frederick Chopin — a sad, but deeply poetic denouement for a man who was truly one of the great poets of the keyboard. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Next season, Lim will do solo Chopin on Carnegie Hall’s main stage, but catching him now was a coup for the Philharmonic. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z A brilliant and insightful interpreter of Russian composers, Beethoven and Chopin, Mr. Kissin meshes an impressive technique with a broad coloristic palette. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn’s 200th followed in 2009, and 2010 brought a bumper crop of celebrations, with impresarios intertwining the bicentennials of Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin with the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z Commenting on this program, he describes both Chopin and Debussy as “inventors of sonority,” composers who “changed the way we hear the sound of the piano.” Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z And his Chopin is thrilling, too, played with delicacy, nervous energy, and a spare, almost dry tone. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z To his surprise, the register suited him, and he entered Warsaw’s prestigious Fryderyk Chopin University of Music to study voice in 2009. He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Dance phrasing joined musical phrasing in many ways, showing both micro and macro aspects of Gluck, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky. Review: Sara Mearns Joins Isadora Duncan’s Maenads and Nymphs 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z This morning, the Marine Band plays Frédéric Chopin’s Funeral March as the casket is taken from the Capitol. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marks 100 years of honoring unidentified war dead 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Of course, when any of his published music sold well, Chopin was delighted. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z McNulty and museum authorities believe the current work will bring it as close as possible to the sound that Chopin heard. Chopin’s last piano gets its 19th-century features back 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The auditions can be followed live on the Chopin Institute YouTube channel and on Polish state radio’s channel. 12 pianists in final stage of prestigious Chopin competition 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z His performance of the Chopin concerto, though rich with poetic grace, lovely sound and flashes of brilliance, was less confident. Review: Maurizio Pollini Reunites With the Philharmonic and Makes Up for Lost Time 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z He was best known for his Chopin performances and this set includes waltzes, polonaises, scherzos and the Second Concerto. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Igor Kamenz and More 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Schumann considered Chopin a member of his fanciful “League of David,” a composer of principle who would fight against the musical Philistines. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Yet almost from the moment Chopin died, in Paris, legends attached themselves to his name like ivy. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z On his favorites list there is a photo-finish contest for the top spot between Schumann and Chopin, which Lucas illustrates with a drawing. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: A Young Reader Responds 2011-02-15T13:00:33Z Chopin writes a couple of announcing chords, and then a long, free, drifting arpeggio. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z As for Chopin, there is no doubt that she was free on the page, free to let her mind unfurl. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Cho’s forthcoming Debussy album appears to be, in part, a declaration that he is more than a Chopin specialist. Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z So he wrote a loving vignette about Chopin in “Carnaval,” one of his early keyboard masterpieces. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z By June, though, he was playing in Chicago, where the Tribune critic wrote that "Brubeck was coaxing from the piano a high lyricism more typically encountered in the music of Chopin." Manager: Jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies 2012-12-05T17:38:06Z He began in late January by exploring the works for cello and piano by Chopin and Schumann with his old friend Yo-Yo Ma. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z Most moving, perhaps, is “Mr. Botibol,” the saga of a lifelong failure who finds unexpected fulfillment and connection in pretending to conduct the great symphonies and concertos of Beethoven and Chopin. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z At the time, the two were far apart in their careers: one an eminence, playing Chopin and Debussy with his characteristic cool brilliance and probing musicianship, the other a boyish newcomer. Review: A Pianistic Master and an Upstart, 15 Years Later 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The études of Chopin and Debussy are among the greatest works of classical music; but in dance, where human beings inevitably suggest drama, the étude is an awkward form. Dance Review: Tere O’Connor Dance at New York Live Arts 2012-11-28T23:05:30Z But if Liszt never lacked champions among master pianists, why is he not considered as important as other Romantic composers, like Schumann and Chopin? Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z In a fully realized genius of Chopin’s stature, few artists can claim equal facility in representing all facets of his personality. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The pianist Murray Perahia took to the stage of Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday for a performance of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin. Music Review: Murray Perahia’s Powerful Sound Unfurls at Avery Fisher 2014-03-10T20:54:55Z In this heady context Chopin seemed to anticipate Impressionism, and Rachmaninoff joined the ranks of the modernists. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z And on Wednesday night, with the soprano Dawn Upshaw, in lovely voice, he concluded with a fascinating program of songs by Chopin and Schumann, with some Chopin piano pieces mixed in. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z The auditions can be followed live on the Chopin Institute YouTube channel and on Polish state Radio channel. COVID-19-delayed Chopin piano competition opens in Poland 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z The measure of these men and their music cannot wait until 2110, when Chopin and Mahler and Schumann will hog the spotlight again or share it with some composer born last year. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z He says the family’s recent attention to the portrait made him study Chopin’s life and music. Chopin portrait bought at flea market is from 19th century 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z His insightful and technically formidable accounts of works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin made clear why, at 31, Mr. Blechacz is one of the major artists of his generation. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz in Exciting, if Blaring, Form 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z But Mr. Feltsman’s playing caught fire after intermission with his passionate renditions of Chopin’s Four Ballades. Music in Review 2011-03-21T22:54:38Z Fastidious, aloof and touchy, Chopin kept even friends at arm’s length. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The earlier pieces are strongly influenced by Chopin, while the later works are more eclectic. Bizet: Complete Music for Solo Piano ? review 2011-03-10T21:45:00Z Chopin, born in 1810 of a Polish mother and a French father, drew widely from folk and Polish national dance music, like the quick-tempo mazurka, or stately polonaise, making it difficult to interpret for non-Poles. Jury to choose winner of prestigious piano contest 2010-10-20T16:22:00Z Thus began his evolution into the flamboyant entertainer who specialized in medleys in which popular songs segued into “Home on the Range” and bits of Chopin morphed into “Chopsticks.” Critic’s Notebook: Liberace Examined, as a Piano Player 2013-05-27T21:40:53Z An evening shared between Chopin and Liszt is sure to test anyone's pianism. Lugansky: A pianist of awesome talent 2011-11-16T18:03:04Z The dark, stern mood of the funeral march movement in Chopin’s Second Piano Sonata shifts abruptly during its middle section. A Conductor’s Falsetto: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The concert, presented in filmed form by PBS, included works by Bernstein, Gershwin, Chopin, Copland and others. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Following’ and ‘The Roads Not Taken’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Despite my suspicion of cats, this remark stuck with me, as did an admiration for the subtlety of Chopin down in the foot-operated region of my instrument. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But the merciless pummeling in Tchaikovsky’s “Reaper’s Song” and “The Hunt,” and in the Chopin, pretty much obliterated everything around it. Review: Lang Lang at the Metropolitan Museum in the Service of Eastern Art 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Chopin’s 17 collected songs, written throughout his life and published as Opus 17, are all settings of Polish poems, perhaps one reason they are seldom performed by non-Polish singers. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z Berlioz was present, Wagner for some, Chopin for some others. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z And while Robbins’s imagination finds the fun in Chopin, it doesn’t neglect the poetry. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z A musical prodigy as a youth, she honed her skills in the choir at St. Louis Union Memorial Church and by performing Chopin on the piano at ladies’ tea parties. Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z His modesty — an unusual quality in a concert pianist — extended to his encore, an unassuming Chopin prelude that lasted less than a minute. Music Review: Keyboard Festival Presents Andrew Tyson and Ilya Yakushev 2013-07-16T21:51:58Z While many exceptional dances have been set to Chopin, none match his music as acutely as this one. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z Seeking a musically richer environment, Chopin left Warsaw at 20, eventually settled in Paris and never set foot in Poland again. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z "They are the two most important composers of piano music," Lugansky says of Chopin and Liszt. The strong and the subtle: Lugansky at UW 2011-11-09T21:23:04Z When he wasn’t complaining about the rain and the food, Chopin composed his Op. In Spain, finding peace — and paella — on Mallorca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z He built, piece by piece, to the final offering, Chopin’s own “Funeral March” Sonata, giving an impetuous yet searching performance. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The Chopin “Barcarolle” and Haydn Sonata she also performed displayed only the slightest reining-in of her romantic energy. Mayron Tsong puts on a full and lively piano concert in just an hour More recently he has also recorded excellent discs of work by mainstream composers like Haydn, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z Chopin’s novel of awakenings and unapologetic erotic trespass is in full swing. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z During the intermission, we walked across the parquet floor of a high-ceilinged reception hall, stopping to admire busts of Chopin and Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a prominent composer and politician. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Chopin and Schumann at 200 are much in the air this season, as is Barber for his centenary. 2010-02-15T22:09:00Z The Chopin and Bach on the soundtrack have been replaced by pop music, including, somewhat obviously, Janis Joplin’s “Cry Baby.” | 'Cries and Whispers': ?Cries and Whispers? at BAM - Review 2011-10-26T21:27:23Z Only here it’s Jack Nicholson behind the keys as Bobby Dupea, doing a soulful rendition of Chopin’s Prelude in E Minor, which at a minimum sounds like the second saddest of all keys. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s not so much what Chopin does, as what he doesn’t do. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Chopin designed an étude to teach pianists how to become metrically ambidextrous. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z He delivered Chopin as written, as if the elaborate figurations, the subtle rhythmic elaborations and all the rest were utterly natural, as though eloquence was the only option. Miguel Harth Bedoya and L.A. Phil have special chemistry 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The classical music critics of The New York Times have combed through the many recordings devoted to Chopin and selected their favorites. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z At 3, he would sit before the family’s collection of old Chopin 78s, playing them repeatedly. George Fiore, former Seattle Opera chorus master, dies at 87 2013-08-30T01:50:48Z In a sign of appreciation for the competitors’ artistry in performing Chopin’s works, the international jury admitted two more finalists than the regulations foresee. 12 pianists in final stage of prestigious Chopin competition 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Morris is the only important choreographer who, like Chopin and a number of other great composers, has mastered the étude form. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z In both works, Chopin seems to be pouring out his pent-up thoughts about chamber music, to the point of overflow. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z A vivid memory from the early 1990s: My piano teacher was giving me hell for not observing some pedal markings in Chopin when he reached for his lighter, to smoke away the aggravation I’d caused. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Alessandro Taverna first got himself noticed in the UK at the 2009 Leeds Piano Competition with a performance of Chopin's E minor Concerto that was exceptional for its strength and grace. Alessandro Taverna ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:42Z "Danny Boy" had scored where Chopin had failed to touch her. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z Her performances of two Chopin Ballades, No. 1 in G minor and No. 4 in F minor, were rather ordinary by comparison, although she sailed through their pianistic difficulties with disarming ease. Pianist Gabriela Montero combines classical improv with a spicy Latin beat 2011-02-05T15:53:00Z The lineup includes Schumann’s “Arabesque” and “Kreisleriana” and three works by Chopin, including the Sonata No. 2. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Hobson played a mechanical rendition of the Chopin, seemingly determined to banish even the slightest whiff of sentimentality. Music Review: Chopin and Schumann, at 200, and Their Inspirations 2010-08-25T21:13:00Z The second half of the program was devoted to grand-scale, heroic Chopin, with the Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The imposing shadow of Beethoven the monumental symphonist meant nothing to Chopin. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He was a really big fan of Chopin. A Choreographer Learns From the Club: ‘Live True, Dance Free’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z These days playing the Chopin études with comfort is practically an entry-level requirement for membership in the ranks of professional pianists. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z Her reading of the Chopin sonata was telling. Music Review: Lola Astanova in Horowitz Tribute at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-21T00:44:23Z Her Royal Festival Hall recital to open the International Piano series focused on Beethoven, opening with the Sonata in E minor Op 90, Chopin and Schumann. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z And there are other features of Chopin’s writing — the contrast of A and B sections, the cyclical repetitions of key phrases — that become new in Mr. Morris’s hands. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z Alan Walker does so brilliantly in “Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times,” a magisterial portrait of a composer who fascinated and puzzled contemporaries and whose music came to define the Romantic piano. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z His recital, featuring works by Debussy, Chopin and Schubert, and a composition of his own, was part of a series at the Y introducing rising talents, assembled by the pianist András Schiff. Review: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Displays Both Delicate and Robust Tones 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Chopin’s march was a convenient, campy shorthand — foreboding but comic, no more serious than the words “game over” at the end of a video game. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Graney and his designer, Tom Burch, have transformed the basement of the Chopin Theatre into a gloriously conceived environment that suggests the back porch of a Key West bar. 'Pirates of Penzance': Wasting away in Gilbert and Sullivanville 2010-12-15T22:44:16Z But it surely seems plausible, too, that his relationship with Sand devolved into platonic companionship because Chopin just wasn’t wired that way. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Afterward, Bronfman served up a meltingly beautiful rendition of the poignant Chopin Etude Opus 10, No. 3 as an encore. With a farewell on the horizon, Zubin Mehta's concert with the Israel Philharmonic is a triumph 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Chopin gives Edna the freedom to feel and yet not know herself. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “Chasing Chopin” is only a partial biography, with much of its focus falling on the odd celebrity couple of Chopin and George Sand: tubercular composer, gender-bending author. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z His music points directly to great composers — this album nods to Rachmaninoff, Debussy and the waltz king, Chopin — but characterizes differently the look and feel of the institutions that contain them. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Jean-Baptiste Robin The organist plays works by Chopin, Ravel, et al. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 8-15: 'The Hubble Cantata,' 'The Consul' and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z The pair will present an afternoon of music by Gershwin, Dvorak, Bernstein, Chopin and the Beatles. Campsites in the Heart of New York City 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Schumann’s work is full of irony and satire; Chopin’s is not. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z I got very involved with Chopin, Beethoven, all the dead white European composers, who I loved. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z He was drawn to the piano, he said, because he had grown up hearing Chopin and Liszt on recordings that his mother had purchased when she was pregnant. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z But I was more struck by his poetic accounts of Chopin, including the lovely Barcarolle. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z His great strengths as a Chopin pianist are shown best in pieces of a lyrical and poetic nature. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts. God gave rock'n'roll to you ? but not for this! 2011-04-08T23:05:00Z As he and I spoke after he finished playing, another pianist began a dreamy Chopin waltz. ArtsBeat: A Musical Impromptu 2011-07-05T17:23:56Z Serving Up a Spectrum of Chopin: Preludes, Ballades, Mazurkas, Études Some artists are almost universally admired, while others evoke wildly different reactions in listeners. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini in a Piano Concert at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-22T21:46:40Z Here was a fascinating program of 24 diverse études, not just by the obvious choices, Chopin and Liszt, but by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Bartok, Messiaen and Ligeti. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z It's another controlled, layered performance, in a drama that flows from subtle erotic tension to tearful confrontation, modulated by Chopin and minimal piano music by composer Dustin O'Halloran. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z It requires some courage to play a program of such classics — the four Chopin Ballades, two of Schubert’s Impromptus and Ravel’s suite “Gaspard de la Nuit.” Review: Behzod Abduraimov Nurtures and Protects in Full Exposure 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The score includes music by Chopin, as well as the Simon and Garfunkel song for which the work is named. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But the other, “Three Chopin Dances,” ends with a very charming duet created specially by Robbins for a White House performance during the Carter administration and that hadn’t been revived until Saturday night. Dance Review: International Stars at Damian Woetzel?s Festival in Vail 2010-08-08T23:47:00Z Musically, for me, they are two of Chopin’s most personal and sublime works. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z This didn’t work as intended: Chopin never warmed to Schumann or his music. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Gradually, he transforms again — Chopin fills the theater — and his choreography is pared back until the rock star image takes on religious undertones. Dance Review: Andrew Dinwiddie and Michelle Ellsworth at Danspace Project 2012-05-25T22:30:07Z Alicja Knast, curator of a Warsaw museum on Chopin, said she couldn't immediately say if it is authentic because she hadn't seen it. Rare photo of Chopin surfaces _ but is it real? 2011-03-10T16:31:04Z Caruncho and Fernandez cite an extract from Sand's memoir, where she recalls returning to the home she shared with Chopin, along with her son, after a long journey delayed by flooding. Chopin's hallucinations possibly due to epilepsy 2011-01-25T12:42:08Z The movie, steeped in sounds of church bells and Chopin piano music, observes a photographer hired to take pictures of the corpse of a beautiful young woman. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z Another thread that runs brightly through the book concerns virtuosity, and Chopin’s place in a music scene dominated by stage animals. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z One of the all-time Seattle favorites returns to the ivories at Meany Hall, with a President’s Piano Series recital of Chopin and Brahms — catnip to keyboard fans. 9 Seattle-area classical music performances to go to this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The choices were the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow and the Chopin. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z Schumann was catching up late with that Chopin piece when he wrote this review in 1831. Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Between Monday and Wednesday, each will perform one of Chopin’s two piano concertos, with the orchestra, before the audience at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw which is traditionally packed for the concerts. 12 pianists in final stage of prestigious Chopin competition 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z This late in the history of feminism, that theme may sound too familiar, but Watkins’s book sparks the same electric jolt that “The Awakening” must have sent juicing through Kate Chopin’s readers in 1899. Review | Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel approaches motherhood — with a torch 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z His programme – Chopin, Brahms, Liszt – was terribly difficult, typically generous and dispatched with a minimum of fuss. Nikolai Lugansky ? review 2011-01-12T22:31:01Z Pianists have the works of Bach, Chopin and Scriabin to challenge them; accordion players are saddled with requests for “Lady of Spain” and the monotonous oompah oompah of the polka. Showing Off the Accordion’s Hip Side 2013-06-26T21:57:23Z Ms. Fliter’s playing, while thoughtful, didn’t really catch fire until the second half of the program, which was devoted to Chopin, a specialty of hers. Music Review: Finding the Subtle Humor and Whimsy in Haydn 2011-02-28T23:16:09Z His 1986 recording of the Ballades, the Barcarolle and the Fantaisie is a superb example of his Chopin playing: pensive and powerful, with an inarguable ebb and flow. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z The necessity arose in 1960, when his recording of Chopin nocturnes was released with liner notes describing one nocturne as “staggering drunken with the odor of flowers.” Charles Rosen, Pianist, Polymath and Author, Dies at 85 2012-12-11T01:24:22Z A pianist who can play the 24 Chopin Études can play anything. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z I tend to prefer Chopin played with a little less rubato than Ms. Rana opted for. Review: Beatrice Rana, a Young Pianist, Holds Carnegie Rapt 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Much of the most beautiful music over the last two centuries has been conceived for it: imagine how impoverished western music would be without the piano writing of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy and beyond. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z Several videos on YouTube show a girl with pigtails playing Chopin with poise. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z Bach Day As usual, the Proms will mark most of the year's significant musical anniversaries – Schumann, Chopin, Scriabin, Mahler – and will devote an entire day to Bach. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z His biggest dream after winning the Chopin competition is “just to be able to keep doing what I’m doing.” Top piano event winner says pandemic helped him concentrate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The contestants spend three weeks playing technically demanding Chopin works, from studies and preludes to large forms like the sonatas and, finally, concertos, performed on stage. Jury to choose winner of prestigious piano contest 2010-10-20T16:22:00Z Chopin does not tell her readers what to think. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The earliest pieces of the Op 12 set, composed in the late 1880s and early 90s before Scriabin left Russia, are heavily indebted to Chopin, sometimes to the point of slavish imitation. Scriabin: Travel Preludes – review 2013-07-25T16:30:00Z The least convincing part of the program was the standard repertory, with stilted interpretations of Chopin’s Barcarole and “Child Falling Asleep,” the penultimate movement from Schumann’s “Kinderszenen.” Music Review: Jenny Q Chai at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-05T23:29:28Z This elegant unpredictability of construction helps Chopin create unique larger forms, too — it makes him a compelling storyteller. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z He played works by Haydn, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin beautifully. Music Review: Murray Perahia Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-06T22:27:16Z Chopin upped the ante on finger power and found a style that transcended his time. Music Review: Composers? Influences, Side by Side 2010-09-01T21:52:00Z One piece he plays is the Chopin Polonaise in A flat, and during this impromptu performance he may drop a few more notes than Liberace does in his video. Critic’s Notebook: Liberace Examined, as a Piano Player 2013-05-27T21:40:53Z He showed a fondness for works with long legato lines, such as those of Frédéric Chopin and Erik Satie. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s not as comfortably written as Chopin or Schumann or Debussy, but there’s a lot of music like that. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z In an animated three-hour interview last week, Mr. Palmieri referred to works by Bach, Chopin and, especially, Debussy that he admires and has studied. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z But the Beethoven symphonic imperative that hung over and intimidated his fellow composers meant nothing to Chopin. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z George, whose tastes run to Chopin and quiet evenings with a book, finds himself adrift in a household prone to impromptu parties and loud Dungeons & Dragons sessions. 'Love Is Strange’ Stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “Dances at a Gathering,” made for City Ballet to an hourlong selection of Chopin music, was a departure for him — and for ballet. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Sitting at his piano in his Sao Paulo penthouse, Martins reels off Frédéric Chopin’s nocturnes with aplomb. Brazilian piano legend plays again thanks to ‘magic’ gloves 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Witty and set to Chopin, the dance spotlights three couples grappling with relationship issues. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Rachmaninoff’s two variation sets, on themes by Corelli and Chopin, are not his most inspired creations. CD reviews: Trifonov channels Rachmaninoff, Young’s Bruckner 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The problem begins early, with teenage letters Chopin wrote to a male friend who had been a boarder at the school Chopin’s father ran in Warsaw. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The right hand — the melodic line — is what draws most of us to Chopin. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z A small group of dancers around a piano brought into fresh and magical life the same Chopin nocturnes that had always been inseparable from the trappings of tutus, painted trees and moonlight. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z As a young woman, she played duets with Chopin, a friend. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Last time, at those 2007 concerts at Carnegie, the composers included Berlioz, Chopin, Beethoven, Bartok, Shostakovich and Bernstein. The Week Ahead: Dec. 9 — 15 2012-12-09T08:00:06Z From an early age, he was entranced by the piano, particularly the music of Chopin. George Fiore, former Seattle Opera chorus master, dies at 87 2013-08-30T01:50:48Z The lineup includes the premiere of “Night Crawlers,” a spoof on “In the Night,” Jerome Robbins’s collection of rapturous love duets set to Chopin — an easy mark for the Trocks. All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Beyond 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z In the unforgiving company of Chopin, Brahms and Schumann, his own work didn't merely hold its own; it glowed. Stephen Hough – review 2013-01-22T12:18:59Z Contrasting three Chopin mazurkas, elegantly played, with the premiere of Three Mazurkas, Op. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z It’s the first horror film I’ve seen that includes both a feminist defense of Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and a discussion of Baudrillard’s nihilism. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Like Edna, Kate Chopin did what she wanted with her mind, whatever the cost, and it cost her almost everything. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z This is followed by Chopin's Etudes, in which pianist Freddie Kempf attempts the famously terrifying Opus 10 No 1, a piece Chopin wrote precisely to test pianists to their limits. Tonight's TV highlights: The Pawn King 2011-01-14T08:00:01Z Despite the refinement and élan in his playing, his recording of Chopin’s 24 études from the early 1930s is, by today’s standards, littered with clinkers. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z Mozart, in his day, was “entertainment”; Beethoven was “entertainment”; Liszt and Chopin certainly were; and even Wagner was. Slickness as transgression: Piano duo pushes boundaries 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z When I was growing up and taking weekly piano lessons, I loved playing Chopin. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z In the program book Ms. Fliter said that some of her earliest childhood memories were of hearing her father, an amateur pianist, play Chopin waltzes. Music Review: Finding the Subtle Humor and Whimsy in Haydn 2011-02-28T23:16:09Z FOR the most part Vladimir Horowitz is not among my preferred Chopin pianists. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z More from Mr. Trifonov’s Perspectives series this week, but the view is singular: Nothing but Chopin is on the agenda, all with the help of the Kremerata Baltica, a chamber orchestra. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The Actress’s penchant for playing Chopin while staring longingly into the middle distance suggests to the Actor that her heart is yearning for a new romance. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z In general, his playing in the Schubert seemed more natural and sympathetic than in the Chopin. Pianist Wosner shows patience, maturity and virtuosity 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Interdependence, despondence, insistence and resistance are the central relationship issues that flow across the generational divides, accompanied by Chopin, with a dash of Beethoven and Nina Simone. 'Love Is Strange' and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In a Chopin group of three nocturnes and four études Mr. Angelich was full of surprises. Music Review: Conceptually Challenging in Familiar Repertory 2011-03-06T22:46:11Z The performances abounded in scintillating grace, wondrous shadings, even touches of impetuousness — all the qualities that distinguish his Chopin, Liszt and Schumann. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Whether you do or don’t, feast on this recital from a superb pianist more commonly heard playing the newest of the new: first, Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z In Ms. Argerich’s towering early traversal of Chopin’s Sonata No. 3, the Largo stands out, beginning stonily then receding into almost dissolving dreaminess, and on from there in great tidal waves of approach and release. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z You could imagine proud Chopin, facing disease and death every day, refusing to give people or even himself the triumph they crave, or an easy answer, or any answer at all. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Members of the ensemble arranged selections by Chopin, Radiohead, Vienna Teng and Thelonious Monk, whose “Round Midnight” opened the program on a sultry, soulful note. Music Review: Nocturnal Voyages Through Many Eras and Textures 2011-06-14T22:22:12Z Walker is probably right when he speculates that the gaunt Chopin, who erupted in coughing fits at the slightest exertion, wasn’t much fun in bed. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Live music also accompanied Mr. Heginbotham’s ebullient piece, to Schubert’s String Quintet in C, and Ms. Skarpetowska’s relatively dull, if beautifully executed, “The Saloneers,” to Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G minor. Review: Juilliard Students Try Out a Searing New Dance 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z What are Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” or Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” two of the canonical works of Gilded Age literary feminism, if not captivity narratives recast as psychological dramas? The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Or, as Mr. Lerner describes a moment of reverie in that 2010 collection of his, “Put the book away/Look out the window: we are descending/Like Chopin through the dusk.” Review: ‘The Hatred of Poetry’: Let’s Count the Ways 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Seeking to connect with a large local Polish community, for example, Buffalo has programmed celebrations of composers from Chopin to Lutoslawski. Orchestras in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo Stay Nimble 2014-04-30T12:32:12Z Culver City Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, “Italian,” plus piano concertos by Chopin and Mozart and more. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 29-Nov. 5: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and more 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z The auditions can be followed live on the Chopin Institute YouTube channel and on Polish state radio. Chopin international piano competition closes in on winner 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The ensemble has previously presented multimedia portraits of the French fantasist Jules Verne, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and an assortment of classical composers, including Chopin and the Schumanns. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z How does an individualist like Chopin “rank” in comparison? ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z Valuably, “Sang-Froid” makes Chopin seem like a contemporary experimentalist: it turns his familiar strokes into surprises. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z Others suggested hybrids of Chopin and Thelonious Monk, or Bach and bebop. Music: Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood 2010-08-17T22:36:00Z Chopin will purr on your lap, happily enough, but that is not his main agenda. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Schumann often writes deliberately awkward things; Chopin would never write clumsy, and only rarely heavy. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Held only once every five years, the competition involves three grueling weeks of performing the works of Poland's beloved 19th century composer, Frederic Chopin. Jury to choose winner of prestigious piano contest 2010-10-20T16:22:00Z Bach’s Partita No. 4 received the most eccentric performance, with the Allemande taken exceedingly slowly and pedaled as if it were Chopin. Pianist Stephen Kovacevich’s deft hands still have a solid grasp 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Anyway, I’m still in a quandary about where to place Chopin and Schumann and their Romantic brethren. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z A Chopin group, including the Impromptu in G-flat, four Mazurkas and the F Minor Fantasy, was filled with character, despite occasional overdoses of pedal. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Other possibilities: simultaneously released films about Liszt and Chopin, Brahms and Schumann, Verdi and Wagner, Ravel and Debussy. Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z This piano, built by a Majorcan craftsman, gave Chopin “more vexation than consolation,” according to George Sand. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Jazz, Featuring Chopin and Bach You might not think of Le Poisson Rouge as the ideal place for an organ recital: for one thing, it lacks an organ. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Plays at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-06-09T19:36:00Z Lugansky says the Chopin section of the Meany show includes the composer's "three greatest pieces for piano." The strong and the subtle: Lugansky at UW 2011-11-09T21:23:04Z All shed precious light on the Ballade, on Chopin, on performance. Play It Again by Alan Rusbridger – review 2013-01-20T06:00:01Z But it was in opposition to these acrobats of the keyboard that contemporaries experienced Chopin’s playing. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z There’s also a wide range of distinguished music — the composers of the last three weeks have included Glinka, Chopin, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Stravinsky, , Hindemith, Ellington, Shostakovich and Thomas Adès. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z Ashton’s version, set to Chopin music for piano and orchestra, omits Shpigelsky and other characters; he gives Rakitin no dancing; and I now see that he sentimentalizes the ending. ‘A Month in the Country,’ as Experienced at Age 20 2013-07-24T15:59:17Z It wasn’t the most transparent playing, but, supported by the orchestra’s outgoing accompaniment, it foregrounded the spine of Chopin’s melodies to an uncommon and persuasive extent. Review | Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony live — and work — for the present 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Her concerts ran from Debussy and Chopin to Beethoven and Bach, but giving lessons was still her livelihood. Dah Dah Doo Dah Dah Dah Dah Dah Doo Dah La Ti Mi Fa La So Fa Mi 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Those who prefer Chopin performed with generous rubato and abundant Romanticism should find other interpreters. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Playing Haydn, Bartok, Debussy and Chopin 2012-02-16T23:01:45Z He’ll perform works by Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann, in keeping with the festival’s grand nod to tradition by celebrating the 200th anniversaries of the composers’ births. Istanbul Music Festival Goes Beyond Classics 2010-05-31T10:00:00Z The American pianist Nicholas Angelich performed works by , Chopin and Schumann on Friday night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that consistently challenged my thinking about this repertory. Music Review: Conceptually Challenging in Familiar Repertory 2011-03-06T22:46:11Z Pianist Louis Lortie undertook this Chopin marathon in Wednesday’s President’s Piano Series before a large and generally appreciative audience. Louis Lortie runs through a Chopin marathon 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z A description of the “Where Is Chopin?” program, with a list of works to be performed, was available in advance on the Poisson Rouge website. Review: The Pianist Jenny Q Chai, Evoking Chopin Without His Work 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Being in Warsaw, where Chopin lived and performed, “you feel closer to Chopin,” Liu said. Top piano event winner says pandemic helped him concentrate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A: Last year was the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth, and Chopin is my life’s work. Nobuyuki Tsujii to play in Seattle recital, ‘Celebrate Asia’ 2013-01-17T22:09:46Z Schumann was mentally unwell; Chopin was physically debilitated, but sane. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z When he won the Chopin, his manager, Harold Shaw, advised him to play nothing but Chopin for three seasons. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z Unlike Flaubert, Chopin declines to explicitly condemn her heroine. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z This particular track features a break based on a Chopin étude, which is always a live crowd-pleaser. 15 Essentials From Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, the ‘Motown of Salsa’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z But once in a while he nailed a piece, as with Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, recorded in New York in 1945, one of the most astonishing piano recordings ever made. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z He emerged when the use of expressive rubato and Romantic liberties in Chopin was rampant. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z Large-scale works by Schumann and Chopin dominated her programme. Mitsuko Uchida 2010-09-26T21:15:00Z Simple - one-man shows about such composers as George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven. Leonard Bernstein comes to life in New York 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z And on Sunday, Mr. Pollini returned to a packed Carnegie Hall for a splendid recital of works by Brahms, Schumann and Chopin. Review: A Pianistic Master and an Upstart, 15 Years Later 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The work has its raucous moments, as in a climactic section, “The Lord Is Good,” in which grandeur melts into a smoothly integrated succession of references to mariachi melodies, pop songs and Chopin. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z There is something about the basement of the Chopin Theatre — the point of origin of David Cromer’s now famous production of “Our Town” — that seems to spark a director’s creativity. 'Star Witness': Small-town girl, pedaling for her own good 2011-03-28T22:13:46Z The top floor performance space where Ma and pianist Garrick Ohlsson played the music of Chopin overlooks City Hall and the bustling traffic on Van Ness Avenue. New San Francisco center to share classical music with all 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But what follows is an unconventional, almost giddy tour that includes memories of grandparents in Iceland, an asteroid, a dash of Chopin and moments of frustration at not being able to recall words. Theater Review: ‘Struck,’ by Tannis Kowalchuk, at Here Arts Center 2013-12-09T23:20:31Z “I think that the sustain pedal is used even in later music, like Chopin, in a very indiscriminate way,” he said then. Classical Music This Week: The Met and the Mets, Female Conductors and Schiff’s Pedal 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Avery Fisher Hall will most likely sell out for this one, when Mr. Perahia plays Bach’s French Suite No. 4, Beethoven’s stormy “Appassionata,” Schumann’s enchanting early suite “Papillons,” and five works by Chopin. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:20:26Z “I have already outlived Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Pushkin, Lermontov and Keats,” he said, referring to his age. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Do we need another recording of Chopin’s piano concertos? The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Asked whether he was ever criticized for writing tonal pieces or quoting Chopin, Mr. Crumb replied innocently. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Chopin, the most original genius of the 19th century, is a good example. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z With megaton amplification, the loud playing in the outer sections of two Chopin scherzos and in two pieces from Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” was deafening and soul-deadening. Review: Lang Lang at the Metropolitan Museum in the Service of Eastern Art 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Trifonov had chosen a programme to suit his strengths – sonatas by Scriabin and Liszt, followed by Chopin's 24 Preludes Op 28. Daniil Trifonov – review 2012-12-05T19:40:44Z She looks small and delicate, almost child-like, but when she starts talking about music, she launches fluently into extended semi-philosophical monologues on the nature of art, referencing everything from film noir to Chopin. Happy to be melancholy 2011-04-02T23:02:01Z Subtle speeding and slowing of the pulse, growing louder or softer, and drawing back to prepare a shift in harmony are expressive devices that make a Chopin nocturne, for instance, live and breathe. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z That combination of qualities enlivened the Chopin too, and created the illusion that the orchestral scoring here was as inventive as the piano writing. Music Review: The Brahms Behind the Schoenberg 2011-04-11T20:30:33Z Gone are the Boulez, the Stockhausen, the Schoenberg of earlier years, replaced here by Schumann and Chopin. Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The third piece sounded like a cosmic amalgam of a Chopin Impromptu and Bartok’s “Out of Doors” suite. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z For the artist, who played a time-traveling repertoire of Chopin and Cage, Mozart and Schnittke, that Manhattan event was a demarcation. Violinist Hahn-Bin at home with Bowie, Tchaikovsky 2012-02-23T22:13:23Z CHEE: Dance battles, standing splits, Chopin’s habit of playing well only in private. How Alexander Chee wrote “The Queen of the Night”: “‘Buffy’ reruns daily. The need to watch all of ‘Six Feet Under’ in a week. So much Internet” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z There was the handful of Polish soil Chopin was supposed to have hoarded so it could be scattered over his coffin. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The next night Mr. Tharaud played a standard program at Weill Recital Hall with works by Scarlatti, Ravel, Chopin and Liszt. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z As the piano was improved, Beethoven and Chopin produced works that tapped into its new possibilities. Music Review | Argento Chamber Ensemble: Sneezes, Hiccups, Laughs and a Chamber Group 2010-03-08T22:29:00Z Chopin wrote only a handful of chamber works, pieces you almost never hear. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z A grand fantasia in the tradition of Schubert and Chopin, it is full of contradictions and unexplainable things. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The work it is presenting at SummerStage, “Momentum,” features classical music, including works by Brahms and Chopin, as well as hip-hop. Free Dance in Summertime New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Whatever its physical foundation, the odd symbiosis between Sand and Chopin makes for some of the most novelistic and colorful chapters in the book. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The longest piece is Chopin’s “Funeral March” Sonata in B flat minor — a lucid, lyrical performance. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The setup evoked the salons in Paris where Chopin was the most comfortable performing. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z Mr. Adès, an accomplished pianist, pays tribute to Chopin by writing modern-day, harmonically spiky, rhythmically fractured mazurkas that imaginatively span the keyboard. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z When he made his New York debut at the Metropolitan Museum, shortly before winning the Chopin Competition in 1970, he opened his program with Louis Weingarden’s “Triptych,” against the advice of his manager and teachers. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z But there were also moments — a fleeting theme with a melancholy, chromatic turn in the finale, for one — that seemed to point toward Chopin. Music Review: Composers? Influences, Side by Side 2010-09-01T21:52:00Z At the heart of the evening was a trio of suites that followed a basic construction: a Messiaen piano solo, a Chopin Nocturne and a fragmentary reprise of the Messiaen. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Barefoot young women skipping and leaping in wispy Botticellian tunics blown about by the breeze — this was a pleasing sight, even if successive solos to Chopin or Gluck began to seem interchangeably quaint. Downtown Dance Festival, With Isadora Duncan Company 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Chopin was one of the first composers as a child that I felt really close to. Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Instead, she went for long solo drives at night, where she’d listen to her favorite classical composers — Debussy, Chopin — and sit with the city’s emptiness. Dawn Richard Will Find a Way to Be Heard 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Chopin’s music is theatrically effective at certain moments, but makes a poor structure over three acts. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z Chopin wrote almost exclusively for piano, but his catalog also includes the G minor Sonata for Cello and Piano, evocatively rendered here with the cellist Pavel Gomziakov. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z Here was Chopin, it seemed, anticipating the modernist piano études of Ligeti. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Maurizio Pollini Celebrates Chopin 2010-04-30T20:20:00Z Each morning, the pianos are available to any amateur pianist eager to sit down and play Chopin for the public. Wall Street is alive with the sound of ... Chopin? 2010-03-01T23:29:00Z These days I’ll sometimes put on Strauss or Chopin while I’m writing and suddenly recognize a symphony or prelude I once heard while watching her soar across a stage. A brother’s mourning clothes: I wanted a uniform of grief 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The audience erupted in cheers, and Mr. Trifonov played four encores, all Chopin, including three études. Music Review: A Pianist?s Pensive and Fanciful Sides 2011-07-29T21:08:11Z A secret congregation of politicians, religious officials and scientists gathered near midnight on April 14, 2014, in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw to exhume the heart of Chopin. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Subtlety distinguished his set of Chopin mazurkas, a velvety touch evoking folk music instruments such as bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, or shepherd’s pipes. Russian pianist quarrels, attacks and fox trots in spectacular debut at the Phillips 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “The End of TV” premiered in 2017 in New Haven, Conn., and was filmed at the Chopin Theatre in Chicago the next year. A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The performance has been reissued many times, here in a release that also offers Horowitz in various live Chopin performances, all fascinating, recorded between 1979 and 1982. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z And he had planned to perform works by Chopin and Beethoven at a concert in Berlin for his 80th birthday on Nov. 15. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Squeamish readers may blanch at the amount of blood-flecked sputum the tubercular Chopin coughs up on the page, and at the procession of doctors with their leeches and milk diets. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Tsujii’s high-octane recital here focused on Debussy and Chopin, repertoire in which translucency and poetry are required along with heroic technique. A 3-encore night with pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii | Classical review 2013-01-23T17:53:37Z But it’s easy to hear how his pioneering efforts in the nocturne genre — which feature long, singing melodies that unfold over left-hand accompaniment and a lack of traditional formal structure — influenced Chopin. Music Review: Celebrating an Irishman Who Preceded Chopin 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z A tourist at Père Lachaise, the cemetery in Paris where Cherubini is buried, is more likely to visit the neighboring grave of Chopin. The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z LaFarge writes passionately about Bach’s influence on Chopin, and the virtues of listening to period pianos to know what Chopin heard and imagined. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z After intermission, Mr. Kissin played four substantive Chopin works, including the Fantasy in F minor and Scherzo No. 2. Review: In ‘With You, Armenia,’ Kissin and Others Honor the Slaughtered 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Wang said he would play two Chopin études but was hustled off after one. Review: Lang Lang at the Metropolitan Museum in the Service of Eastern Art 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z While surmounting their challenges easily, she convinces you that these are among the most poetic and musical pieces Chopin produced. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z During one stretch, she found common ground between two of Brahms’s searching intermezzos and a few of Chopin’s mercurial, lilting mazurkas. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Still, that broadcast performance of the Chopin polonaise from the 1950s surprised me. Critic’s Notebook: Liberace Examined, as a Piano Player 2013-05-27T21:40:53Z In his conversations, he is animated and forthright, his friends say, reminiscing about his encounters with the eminent pianist Arthur Rubinstein, or passionately explaining rhythmic styles in the music of Chopin. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z “So an opportunity to hear the sound of Chopin’s piano as he heard it when he composed is quite likely,” Laskowski said. Chopin’s last piano gets its 19th-century features back 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Early in “The Awakening” — Kate Chopin’s great feminist novel of identity and self-consciousness, which still throbs with relevance more than 120 years after its publication — the heroine’s husband picks a fight. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z And as a proud Polish artist playing Chopin’s mazurkas, which evoked a Polish dance form, he was unrivaled. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z He sketches key events in the history of Poland and portrays the burgeoning society of Polish exiles in Paris in a way that lends depth to Chopin’s oft-cited patriotism. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z And two instrumentals: "Solitude," from the film "Strip Tease," is a gorgeous, evocative piano piece showing his love of Chopin. Serge Gainsbourg, introduction to a provocateur 2011-09-02T20:20:00Z On the second floor of the Heritage Foundation, senior legal fellow Charles Stimson muted CNBC, put on Chopin and worked the report with a yellow highlighter and yellow sticky notes. ‘It’s absolutely gripping.’ Washington races to make sense of the Mueller report 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Trifonov, who had a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, has always been able to toss off Liszt and Chopin études or any blockbuster concerto. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z This is a very traditional competition: contestants are required to prove themselves technically in the preliminaries by playing two études, including one by Liszt or Chopin. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z Illness is a recurring motif that shaped Chopin’s career before cutting it short. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Over the past few months I have been attempting to master Chopin's Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23, one of the most daunting pieces in the piano repertoire. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z Yet this, too, is somewhat in keeping with the tradition of the lullaby – the berceuses by established composers such as Liszt and Chopin were often written in a flat key. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-20T21:29:00Z Anna has picked up a nice present for me, Chopin’s Letters from Mallorca. “It’s starting to sound like Luna up in here”: Dean Wareham’s reunion tour diary 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z A combination of biography, cultural commentary and personal reflection, it radiates out from the “Funeral March,” the third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2, in many directions. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z It was Sand who organized the creative retreat on an unexpectedly rain-sodden Majorca that weakened Chopin. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Among them you would have to include Garrick Ohlsson, who not only plays with resourceful mastery but seems to play everything, including all the works of Chopin. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z The recital focused entirely on Chopin, offered in generous and familiar helpings, but transformed through the autumnal gaze of a 75-year-old pianist who seems, in person, more venerable even than his years. Review | A pianist offers the shape of emotion and brilliance 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z At the evening’s heart were the four Chopin ballades, presented, in a canny piece of programming, on either side of intermission, two before and two after. The right Hough: Pianist delivers superb recital at Terrace Theater 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Chopin is not the only Polish artist being explored this summer. Chopin Is the Focus of Bard’s Summer Music Festival 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Of what he believed to be Hatto, Deacon wrote: “My oh my, this is a beautiful recording of Chopin’s music. The pieces flow so naturally and so completely, without precious effects.” A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z A recent review of Lortie’s recording of the waltzes called it “Chopin playing of sublime genius.” Louis Lortie runs through a Chopin marathon 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The six letters written by Chopin to his parents and sisters in Warsaw between 1845-48 are the centerpiece of an exhibit that opened Thursday. Museum gets long-lost Chopin letters 2011-03-24T14:42:18Z And the concluding Chopin, by turns lyrical and jaunty, showed the two musicians at their partnering best. Cellist Carter Brey’s restraint speaks volumes 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Grove Music Online offers the clinical assessment that Loewe was an essentially conservative figure, untouched by the innovations of radical, slightly younger contemporaries like Schumann, Chopin and Liszt. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z Composers like Chopin and Liszt showed how to write études that, while pushing the boundaries of piano technique, were also musically wondrous pieces. Music Review: Nicolas Hodges, Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2013-01-23T21:55:16Z I listened to all the waltzes of Chopin on the flight over. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z This is one of many Bellini moments that inspired the melodic writing of Chopin, a Bellini devotee. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The piano rings out first with a Chopin scherzo, and we see how some people “snapped their glasses cases as they tried well-meaningly to catch up with the leaping flood of sound.” Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z But it was in the Chopin, via a mercurial Ballade, a dramatic Scherzo, an angelic Nocturne and a robust Polonaise, that Haywood revealed his emotional depths and technical facility — and whetted Washington’s appetite for more. Pianist Sam Haywood displays lyrical sensitivity in a recital at the Kennedy Center The program also included two pieces inspired by Chopin, “Meine Freuden” from “Chants Polonais” and the Ballade No. 2 in B minor, in which Liszt’s bombastic side is on full display. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z While Chopin was plagued by health ailments, like severe headaches and insomnia, there is no record he was diagnosed with any neurological problems. Chopin's hallucinations possibly due to epilepsy 2011-01-25T12:42:08Z “Black Flowers,” Ms. Skarpetowska’s new Chopin piece, provides a palpable shift in mood. Dance Review: Works by David Parsons and Katarzyna Skarpetowska 2013-01-16T18:51:10Z As if a sumptuous, tender account of the “Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini” were not enough, Mr. Trifonov offers uncannily fine interpretations of Rachmaninoff’s variations on themes by Chopin and Corelli. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The songs are not what devotees of Chopin’s rhapsodic piano pieces might expect. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z I don’t play Chopin nocturnes to educate their ear but to annoy them, and they retaliate by playing artists I won’t name here. My Five Things: Wicked Novelist Gregory Maguire 2011-11-09T20:51:13Z His performances of Mozart and Chopin on contemporary pianos in the early 1990s created a sensation. CD review: ‘Concord’ Sonata by pianist Alexei Lubimov 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But while Chopin’s music opens up emotional worlds it spells out nothing. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He achieved international recognition with a recording of the two Chopin piano concertos at age 12 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z She will perform Schumann’s “Carnaval”; Alkan’s Étude No. 3 from “Twelve Études in the Major Keys”; Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor; and a selection of Rachmaninoff’s Preludes. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-31T00:02:45Z On Sunday afternoon at , Mr. Pollini presented the first of three Chopin recitals he is performing there in swift succession. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Honors Chopin Landmark at Carnegie 2010-04-19T21:51:00Z He plays works influenced by dance, ranging from Bach’s Partita No. 4 to Morton Gould’s “Boogie-Woogie Étude,” and including works by Chopin, Scriabin, Granados and others. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Learn a Chopin prelude, get all Jackson Pollock with the kids, spend a few hours writing a Haiku. James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' 2013-04-26T16:08:01Z Chopin’s Gloomy Ghosts And Haunting Winds Three additional rows of stage seats were set up to accommodate the overflow audience at on Thursday night for the Chopin recital by the master pianist Maurizio Pollini. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Maurizio Pollini Celebrates Chopin 2010-04-30T20:20:00Z As for my son, in the years since his first, awful, diagnosis, he's made tremendous progress, which includes playing Chopin and bopping around on Houston's bus system. Motherlode Blog: 21, Autistic and Having a Party 2012-10-05T20:00:28Z Like many people, I learned about Chopin’s “Funeral March” at an early age, on the family couch, watching Saturday morning cartoons. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z As Walker shows in his biography, Chopin cared deeply about instruments to the point of identifying with them. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “Beethoven and Chopin are as good for the Asians as for the Europeans as for the Jews as for the gentiles,” he told The Forward in 2007. Walter Hautzig, Pianist Whose Talent Helped Him Flee Nazis, Dies at 95 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z You need to give “Love Is Strange” your eyes and ears and attention, let it work its effects on you gradually, like the lovely Chopin piano music that forms the spine of its soundtrack. “Love Is Strange”: More than a gay-marriage story, a gorgeous fable of American life 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The first of these centred around the love-lives of the great Romantic composers Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, with actors reading from their letters and diaries. Lucy Parham: My voyage round Debussy 2013-06-21T15:49:43Z Young Consuela began playing the piano at age 3 and tackling Chopin études not long after. 2010-01-12T06:44:00Z He plays Schumann’s “Arabeske” and the Fantasy in C, before a second half of Chopin, including the Ballade No. 4 and the Scherzo No. 1. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Standpoint The worst job in music, the National Youth Orchestra of Baghdad and Chopin overkill. Internet picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z A regular visitor to Los Angeles for over four decades, pianist Murray Perahia appeared at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday, blazing through a treacherous program of music by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Franck and Chopin. Murray Perahia evokes suspense, sadness and exhilaration at Disney Hall 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z A Chopin festival, split over two August weekends, includes 12 concerts putting the composer in context, as well as two panel discussions. 10 Spring and Summer Classical Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Last year Lang Lang released “Piano Book,” an album of pieces that fostered his childhood passion for the piano: short Chopin works, folk songs, “Chopsticks.” Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Chopin, a staggering genius, wrote almost exclusively for the piano. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z Chopin remained notably noncommittal; the silence itself was instructive. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z The jury will gather for deliberations in the evening after hearing the last four among the 12 finalists play a Chopin concerto with the orchestra during the day. Chopin international piano competition closes in on winner 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The evening ended with alluring performances of five Chopin works, including elegantly voiced mazurkas and a powerfully wrought Ballade No. 2 and Scherzo No. 2, whose technical challenges Mr. Varjon deftly conquered. Review: Denes Varjon, a Hungarian Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z They had spent more than a week rehearsing the program, which included pieces by Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin and Valentin Silvestrov, Ukraine’s most famous living composer. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z His Chopin, swinging between muscularity and introversion, was marginally more successful when the going got tough. Nikolai Lugansky ? review 2011-01-12T22:31:01Z But Kolesnikov nudged them as closely together as possible — again applying modern pedalwork to the Baroque, and using Chopin as a stylistic anchor. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Nikolai Lugansky's aim, however, is seemingly to show that Chopin works best when done big, turbulent and clamorous, and, by and large, he succeeds. Chopin: Sonata No.3, etc 2010-05-13T21:05:00Z This superb pianist plays the four Chopin ballades magnificently. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The morning of the day he died in 1993, he listened to Chopin on an old cassette tape. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z It's at the forefront on her new record, "Night of Hunters," a concept record based on compositions by the likes of Bach and Chopin that find Amos joined with chamber music accompaniment. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z Chopin, who died in Paris in 1849 at the age of 39, dreaded being buried alive, and asked that his body be cut open before burial and his heart sent to Warsaw. Chopin’s Heart, Pickled in a Jar, Offers Clues to His Death 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z There were no auditions Sunday, when traditional observances of Chopin’s death anniversary were held at the Holy Cross that included Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Requiem,” music that Chopin asked to be played at his funeral. 12 pianists in final stage of prestigious Chopin competition 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z His delivery was consciously understated, veiled and atmospheric, with Chopin's explosion of emotion gauged so as to reveal its shocking force. Stephen Hough – review 2012-10-10T14:25:13Z But if one thing is clear, it is that any collection must include at least one recording by Arthur Rubinstein, whose keen insights were shaped by a lifelong association with Chopin’s music. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z Mr. Albright was impressive in his recital, showing easy virtuosity in the Chopin études and the Turkish lark. Review: Matthias Goerne Captures the Mood at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z He is now recognized as one of the world's great Chopin interpreters. Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture 2011-02-27T17:16:04Z Many non-pianists, already prejudiced against Chopin because he didn’t care much for their instrument, think this is wasteful, or fussy — but pianists know. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Because of the war, the choir left Ukraine on Nov. 19 for Warsaw, where they were given rehearsal space inside the Chopin University of Music and obtained visas to travel to the United States. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z This may have been the closest Chopin came to writing an unabashed virtuoso showpiece. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z More than a decade ago the formidable Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman, tired of hearing everyone trash the orchestrations of Chopin’s two piano concertos, decided to do something about it. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z In Chopin’s day, every emerging pianist was expected to show himself off in his own concertos. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “He sketches key events in the history of Poland and portrays the burgeoning society of Polish exiles in Paris,” as well as exploring “Chopin’s place in a music scene dominated by stage animals.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Trifonov did, in fact, follow the Chopin competition with first place in the Rubinstein competition in Tel Aviv and the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in 2011, and his career immediately took off. Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov creates a sensation in his L.A. recital debut at Disney Hall 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z In 1999, the Ringelblum archives were assigned “Memory of the World” status by UNESCO, along with such Polish documents as the original manuscripts of composer Frederic Chopin and the treatises of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Memories in milk bottles: Polish exhibition 'shouts out' annihilation story of Warsaw Ghetto 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The competition in which only Chopin’s works are played is reputed for launching world careers for its winners and finalists. COVID-19-delayed Chopin piano competition opens in Poland 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z He was named Yundi Li when, still a teenager, he won first prize at the Chopin competition in Warsaw in 2000. Review: Yundi Plays Chopin at Carnegie Hall 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the excellent young duo of the cellist Nicholas Canellakis and the pianist Michael Brown play Schumann, Strauss, Webern and Chopin. Classical & Opera Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The pianist who has won the broadest consensus for his exemplary Chopin is probably Arthur Rubinstein. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z But where her Chopin was romantically pianistic, the three Rachmaninoff Op. Mayron Tsong puts on a full and lively piano concert in just an hour Chopin, as it happens, is a focus of his young discography. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z A musical exemplar of the Young Poland movement, he had his eye toward the future but was haunted by Chopin and German musical supremacy. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Kolesnikov’s blanket dreaminess lent a memory-like remove even to passages of storminess and, in one of the Chopin Nocturnes, a moment of “I could have danced all night” bliss. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z But who is to say that contemporary Chopin interpretation needs to be bound by such historical constraints? A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z His altered style was once again on display this Sunday, in a program of pieces by Brahms, Schumann, and Chopin, and he delivered intellectual and aural shocks from the very first notes that he played. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Chopin’s 21 nocturnes, written over the course of nearly his whole composing life, are single-movement pieces of generally less than six minutes. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Apart from piano compositions, Chopin wrote wonderfully for the female voice, says James Rhodes in Chopin - The Women Behind the Music. Tonight's TV highlights: The Culture Show 2010-10-14T23:04:00Z You can also take in the Chopins’ residence — eventually, Kate Chopin and her husband, Oscar, had six children — at 1413 Louisiana Street, a graceful house, shaded by enormous live oaks. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z And my son is now clamoring for piano lessons and YouTubing Chopin preludes because of a Japanese anime movie. Kids and Culture? There’s So Much to Talk About 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Celebrating Chopin, a central element of the Carnegie series, hardly seems daring. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z There was a sudden lull with a gentle version of Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor, the melodies shared among piano, woodwinds and brasses. Music Review: Nocturnal Voyages Through Many Eras and Textures 2011-06-14T22:22:12Z Even the encores seemed oddly distanced: three chestnuts — Schumann’s “Träumerei,” Debussy’s “Golliwog’s Cakewalk,” played with rubbery sprightliness, and a Chopin waltz — followed by a composition of his own. Review | A brilliant pianist offers a so-so recital: Kissin returns to Strathmore 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Both Debussy and Chopin were active in Paris, so I thought it was a good combination. Nobuyuki Tsujii to play in Seattle recital, ‘Celebrate Asia’ 2013-01-17T22:09:46Z Paderewski, who fought for Polish independence from Germany in the early 20th century, was an even more important figure than Chopin, Malgosia said, “emotionally and politically.” In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Chopin may have perfected the piano nocturne, but he didn’t invent it. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z A thought-provoking recital from one of our most distinguished pianists pairs Bach and Chopin, two composers who don’t instantly spring to mind as natural partners but might well turn out to be. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, will fall silent in the ghetto forever,” a captive resident wrote in 1944. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z Many interpreted Chopin’s refusal to judge Edna as the author’s oversight, and took it as an open invitation to do so themselves. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z In a lecture with Red Bull Music Academy, Glenn-Copeland recalled his father playing the likes of Bach and Chopin on the piano for five hours a day. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z After a visit to Torun in 1825, the composer Frederic Chopin, 15 at the time, wrote to a friend praising the town’s gingerbread as better than the Gothic architecture and famous leaning tower. A Gingerbread City Guards Its Secrets 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Chopin was an incomparable crafter of transitions, and he loved asymmetry, but his “Funeral March” has almost no transitions, and heaves back and forth in symmetrical twos and fours. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Poetic instinct was a Cortot characteristic and in the second half Hough brought piercing insight to Chopin, the ultimate poet of the piano. Stephen Hough 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z Kupiec is a formidable pianist: her approach to Chopin was characterised by fire and fury. St Magnus festival 2010-06-25T21:15:00Z News of the artwork’s existence broke this week as Warsaw hosted the 18th Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, an international event known for launching the careers of world-class pianists. Chopin portrait bought at flea market is from 19th century 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z There's another book that I haven't brought into the conversation much: “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin. Coming to the Festival of Books: Jill Alexander Essbaum and 'Hausfrau' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Wearing a black tuxedo and facing the camera directly, Liberace explains that he is going to play the Chopin work “in its entirety.” Critic’s Notebook: Liberace Examined, as a Piano Player 2013-05-27T21:40:53Z Chopin was wonderful, but Liszt was real boys’ material: heroic, leaping tall buildings in a single bound, doing the impossible.” Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z There’s more Chopin on Saturday when Alexander Peskanov performs a selection of the composer’s Ballades and Etudes as well as the Fantaisie in F minor. Classical & Opera Listings for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Even the lovely Chopin prelude he played for his encore seemed literal: Although he beautifully modulated the dynamic line, he was unable to escape a pervasive sense of percussiveness. Philly beguiles with symphonic power 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z “Chopin and His World” will be the theme of the 28th annual Bard Music Festival this summer on the Hudson Valley campus of Bard College. Chopin Is the Focus of Bard’s Summer Music Festival 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The program includes Chopin’s four Ballades, two of Schubert’s Impromptus and Ravel’s fantastical “Gaspard de la nuit,” a supreme challenge for any pianist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z These sorts of eruptions are not possible on the early-19th-century pianos that Chopin knew. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z You feel the layers of his thought — Poland as home, the mazurka as tradition, Chopin as Romantic — but principally he’s immersed in dance itself rather than communication. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet in ?Signatures 10? at Gould Hall 2010-04-25T22:26:00Z Nature, architecture and Chopin are among the inspirations for the contributors, all Mateyka regulars. In the galleries: A ‘Homage to Hillary’ is repurposed 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z This summer the spotlight is on the chamber and piano works of Schumann and Chopin, whose bicentennials are celebrated this year. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z The heart of Frederic Chopin was pickled in a jar and then encased in a stone pillar in a Polish church. Clue to Chopin’s death? His pickled heart, kept in a jar 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Like the 1991 movie “Impromptu,” which amusedly observed the romantic furor surrounding the composers Liszt and Chopin, “Beloved Sisters” portrays the European culture heroes of yesteryear as the pop stars of their time. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The 48-year-old singer-songwriter's 12th studio album, "Night of Hunters," is a darkly romantic, sweeping song cycle based on themes by Chopin, Schubert, Satie and Debussy. Tori Amos communes with classical, other pasts 2011-12-08T21:43:05Z Chopin is better equipped to sustain exaggeration and aggression, and Mr. Lang’s account of the Ballades was, by the end, more satisfying, while being just as technically secure. From Lang Lang, a Technicolor Take on Mozart 2014-02-05T05:00:26Z In the Night, by Robbins, is set to three Chopin nocturnes. Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:13Z Arthritis prevents him from playing his beloved Chopin; instead, he hovers his hands over an electronic keyboard and mimes the melodies while listening to CDs. Review: In Scathing ‘Downstate,’ Sympathy for the Devils 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The audience loved the performance and won a tiny Chopin encore. Pianist Brian Ganz’s fresh take on Debussy, Beethoven But his sensitivity to texture and resonance is sure to illuminate the more traditional works on offer here: a prelude, ballade and polonaise by Chopin, Debussy’s “Estampes” suite and Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in December 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Music by Chopin, whose bicentennial is being celebrated this year along with Schumann’s, constituted the second half of the recital. Music Review: Joaqu?n Ach?carro at Mannes College the New School for Music 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z It was Chopin, and it was coming from the closet. A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z You might find this far from Romanticism, but Chopin makes overtones feel physical, even sensual. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The “Là ci darem” Variations will get a rare hearing this August when the Bard Music Festival devotes two weekends of concerts and panel discussion to “Chopin and His World.” Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Beck intelligently conveyed the elusive nature of these difficult and unconventional études, which Debussy dedicated to Chopin. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z They were also beautiful performances in their own right, Yifrashewa employing a tenderness of tone and light rhythmic touch that added heft to his more emphatic attack on pieces by Chopin and Schumann. Girma Yifrashewa’s blend of European piano and Ethiopian music 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z A Horowitz at the piano “with a grace and an ease that even Chopin might envy.” ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Chopin Chopin: Piano Sonata 3/ Fantasy In F Minor/ Fantasy Impromptu - Onyx If you view Chopin primarily as a revolutionary firebrand rather than an introverted dreamer, then this recital is definitely for you. Chopin: Sonata No.3, etc 2010-05-13T21:05:00Z The floating sweetness of the Chopin preludes, the slapstick with folding chairs and knives, the deliberately unruly corps and out-of-sync ballerinas: Here was an intoxicating immersion into a world of quirkiness, passion and great warmth. Suzanne Farrell Ballet soars in ‘The Concert,’ stumbles in ‘Swan Lake’ Mr. Carpenter played the Chopin original with aplomb, followed by Godowsky’s transcription. Music Review: A Maverick Conjures Up Some Favorite Madmen 2010-10-06T22:18:00Z The Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman has always been a thoughtful interpreter with a gift for clarity and singing melodic lines — adept at the modes of expressive longing in Romanticism and Chopin alike. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The program here, featuring Chopin’s four Ballades and works by Debussy, is more traditional than his recent forays into little-known corners of the repertory. Classical & Opera Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z It opens with a rumble deeper than any you've ever heard in a bowling alley, then segues into a Chopin prelude as dancer Jason Hartley takes the stage. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z A musician of uncommon sensitivity and intelligence, he was an exquisite Chopin player. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z The collection offers a rich variety of solo pieces, chamber works and concertos by Beethoven, Berio, Chopin, Mozart, Takemitsu, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and more — in probing, lucid, often exhilarating performances. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Although gifted with prodigious technique, Chopin stood outside the “flying trapeze school” of pianism. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The portraits of Chopin and Paganini, particularly, were beautifully executed, as were the movements devoted to Schumann’s fictional antagonists, Florestan and Eusebius. Music Review: Alexander Kobrin at Mannes College Keyboard Festival 2012-07-25T21:45:48Z Lastly, he performed Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin. Technique, musicianship: Daniil Trifonov has it all | Classical review 2013-04-10T17:00:37Z Chopin respected his composer colleagues, but he was not especially interested in their work. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z Camilla instead will visit the British Embassy in Warsaw and view a new museum on the life of Polish piano composer Frederic Chopin. Prince Charles views Polish bison, without Camilla 2010-03-16T11:35:00Z Chopin advanced the technique of piano playing, often horrifying conservative pedagogues in the process, and created startling new sonorities. 2010-02-06T07:43:00Z The program at8 p.m. on Saturday echoes his new recording with homages to Chopin — represented by the Piano Sonata No. 2 — by Mompou, Schumann, Grieg, Barber, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z He stands in the doorway, drops his backpack and takes steps — simple and unmannered — to Chopin. Review: Sofia Coppola Brings New York City Ballet Back to Life 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z This year is Chopin’s bicentennial: too few dance companies are commemorating it, but in this Limón revival Theater Ballet does the composer honor. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet in ?Signatures 10? at Gould Hall 2010-04-25T22:26:00Z His program mixed Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven with lesser-known works by the Finnish symphonist Jean Sibelius. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z He made his name internationally as Yundi Li at 18 as winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Poland. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The score for “Month in the Country,” finely conducted by Barry Wordsworth, features three of Chopin’s most celebrated compositions for piano and orchestra. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z These recordings of Chopin and Ravel, separated by a clutch of Liszt miniatures, confirm that Grosvenor's talent is a special one, but their unevenness also reveals that he is not quite the finished article yet. Chopin: Scherzos; Nocturnes; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, etc - review 2011-08-18T21:05:01Z When Chopin repeats the haunting, opening melodic line in the Nocturne in F Major, Op. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z He began in October with a recital featuring pieces by Tchaikovsky, Mompou, Grieg, Barber and Rachmaninoff that had been written in homage to Chopin. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z And Ms. Chai did not speak to the audience to explain, for example, why “Where Is Chopin?” included no piece by that classic composer. Review: The Pianist Jenny Q Chai, Evoking Chopin Without His Work 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Maybe it was the Charterhouse, the former Carthusian monastery turned winter lodging for George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Ambiguity was exactly the quality Mr. Pollini, long admired for his Chopin, emphasized in his fascinating performance. Review: Maurizio Pollini Finds His Verve at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z At a rehearsal, she can be seen trying out a phrase in a Chopin concerto one way, then another, then another. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z They were preceded by another Chopin dance, a solo from José Limón’s “Mazurkas,” here danced in soft shoes by Tiler Peck of City Ballet. At Damian Woetzel’s Vail International Dance Festival 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z In 1999, the Ringelblum archives were assigned “Memory of the World” status by UNESCO, along with such Polish documents as the original manuscripts of composer Frederic Chopin and the treatises of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Memories in milk bottles: Polish exhibition 'shouts out' annihilation story of Warsaw Ghetto 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Chopin’s teacher inculcated what would become a lifelong obsession with Bach in the young Chopin, Mendelssohn’s contemporary, in the early 1820s. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z There are events, concerts, monuments, museums, even entire schools named for Chopin. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z But I lost patience with the Chopin ballades. Critic’s Notebook: Weill Hall at Sonoma State University 2012-10-02T22:15:15Z But whereas no one really doubts the greatness of Wagner or Verdi, and Chopin seems universally beloved, things are not so straightforward with Liszt. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z So I tried out this and that, including some Chopin. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z There he met and played for his idol, Chopin. Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Though clearly inspired by Chopin’s études, Debussy focused on exploring techniques particularly applicable to the new music of his time. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z For the second program, he plays works by Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Szymanowski. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Her singing caught fire during the penultimate number in the program, the “Chopin Waltz” by Joseph Marx. Music Review: Karita Mattila at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-11T22:22:47Z As does the lyrical Romantic pianism of “Canto,” which brings to mind Chopin or Rachmaninoff — and which connects to a longer history of European art music tradition. The Minimalist Composer Who Keeps Getting Left Out 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Is it possible that his Chopin is becoming still stronger? Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z There is not exactly a shortage of Chopin discs by exemplary pianists. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z Ligeti was inspired by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, jazz and the complex polyphony of sub-Saharan African music while writing his series of rhythmically complicated and virtuosic character pieces. Taka Kigawa, Ligeti in Mind, Returns to Le Poisson Rouge 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z A graceful performance of Chopin does not normally require an apology. Review: Mostly Mozart’s Opening Concert, With a Chopin Encore 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The program concluded with the Sonata No. 3 by Chopin, who admired Beethoven’s Op. Music Review: HaeSun Paik and Michail Lifits at Mannes Concert Hall 2010-07-30T22:28:00Z Few other pianists around today play Chopin with as much understanding and poised mastery as this. Chopin: The Complete Waltzes ? review 2011-07-21T20:40:01Z His partner for the evening was the Polish American mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór, with whom he collaborated in 10 of Chopin’s songs. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z When the ship was about to go down, he put on Chopin’s “Funeral March” and joined his people for their odyssey across the ice. Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z And the gala chairman is Donald Trump, whose association with Chopin and Rachmaninoff brings a new sort of classiness to the man whose products are often called world class. Lola Astanova, Julie Andrews and Donald Trump at Carnegie 2012-01-18T23:05:33Z In response to enthusiastic applause, Goode returned to the stage with a Chopin Prelude and a Pavane and Galliard by William Byrd as encores. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z But even with Mr. Kissin’s supreme rhythmic and melodic command, a set of six Chopin mazurkas turned tedious, with little to connect among them and few surprises within them. Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z In advance of the Bard Music Festival, titled “Chopin and His World,” the college hosts a performance by Moves, a group of New York City Ballet principals, soloists and corps de ballet members. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z He remembers his mother lovingly coaching him to play the romantic ballads of her favorite composer, Chopin. Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture 2011-02-27T17:16:04Z I expected beautiful Chopin from this young Russian pianist, a brilliant virtuoso with poetic sensibilities, in two programs early this year that were part of his Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z After Chopin's mighty B minor sonata, Uchida's encore was the first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight"' sonata. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z The combination of barely contained impulse and utter command produced remarkable effects at times in the Chopin. Music in Review: JUHO POHJONEN 2011-11-04T22:26:42Z The trademark wonders of Mr. Kissin’s playing — a singing tone, myriad shadings, uncanny brilliance — were all present in his Chopin performances. Review: In ‘With You, Armenia,’ Kissin and Others Honor the Slaughtered 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z You attempted a three-actor play about Chopin at the American Repertory Theater near Boston in 2003 and never departed from the solo format again. Hershey Felder gives Irving Berlin one-man-play treatment at Geffen 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z The centrepiece is Jerome Robbins's rarely seen ballet In The Night, a trio of subtly nuanced romantic, erotic duets set to the music of Chopin. Christmas dance round-up 2012-12-15T00:05:33Z Her effort to bring it to Berlin, its seizure by Nazi officers during World War II and its subsequent odyssey once again show the uncanny ability of Chopin to write operas — posthumously. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z "I played a vast repertoire of Rachmaninov, Schumann, Chopin and Bach." Neil Sedaka: 'My great love is classical music' 2012-10-12T16:47:00Z For me, the really interesting Romantic parallel is between Chopin and Schumann, partly because Schumann announced young Chopin to the musical world: “Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!” The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Lang Lang played Chopin's Waltz No 1 at the ceremony to mark his new job and was then asked whether he would be ready to go to Syria or another danger zone. Pianist Lang made UN peace messenger 2013-10-29T10:59:51Z As ever, you could describe much of what he did in an opening volley of Chopin and Liszt pieces as extravagant and fussy. Music Review: Lang Lang International Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie 2013-06-04T22:07:16Z Chopin died at age 54 from a brain hemorrhage after a long, hot day spent at the St. Louis World’s Fair with her son. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Taken to Paris as a youngster, where he attracted the attention of Berlioz and Chopin, Gottschalk returned to the States in 1853. CD reviews: Cellist Isserlis shows guts in Bach 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z |
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