Though not the most imaginative take on the 21 nocturnes, the French pianist captures Chopin’s music as it was conceived on a superb-sounding 1836 Pleyel Chopin composed 21 nocturnes, 18 of which were ...

The Four Ballades, composed between 1831 and 1842, are perhaps the most perfect examples of Chopin's instinctive sense of musical shape and tonal organisation. The sheer technical finesse of his piano ...

How to make the Chopin Ballades sound fresh? For the veteran British pianist Stephen Hough, who essayed the complete set in the second half of his Friday recital in Rockport, the answer lies in ...

(4) Ballades, Movements: No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Eliane Rodrigues, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer (4) Ballades, Movements: No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Eliane Rodrigues, Piano ...

Mazurkas (Complete), Movements: No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 6/1 (1830) Anna Zassimova, Piano Mazurkas (Complete), Movements: No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 6/2 (1830) Anna Zassimova, Piano Mazurkas ...

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