The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin - from the Studio of Arthur Greene
Posted in Chopin, Nocturnes, Polina Khatsko on May 18th, 2008
Cross-posted from our companion daily blog site The Chopin Currency: By “Currency” we mean just how contemporary - and how powerfully it resonates in our own time, nearly 200 years since the composer’s birth.
This month we’re getting a compelling reminder…
Posted in Chopin, Jei-Yern Ryu, Waltzes, piano on May 10th, 2008
Chopinmusic.net calls this Grand Valse “one of Chopin’s most popular and glittering works.” We’re hard pressed to disagree.
Hear Chopin Project pianist Jei-Yern Ryu perform Chopin’s effervescent Waltz in E-flat, Op. 18.
Want to try playing it yourself? Download the sheet music here.
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Posted in Chopin, Dmitri Vorobiev, Recordings, Variations, classical, rare & early works on Feb 20th, 2008
Posted in Chopin, Recordings, Svetlana Smolina, Waltzes, classical, piano on Feb 18th, 2008
Posted in Chopin, Mazurkas, Xiaofeng Wu on Feb 10th, 2008
The Mazurkas, like the Polonaises, are the compositions closest to Chopin’s Polish roots. In fact, many Chopin scholars say the Mazurkas are Chopin at his most personal, experimental, and confessional: In his Mazurkas, you get to know the very soul…
Posted in Chopin, Etudes, Musicology, Recordings, classical, piano on Jan 29th, 2008
Posted in Ballades, Chopin, Musicology, classical, piano on Dec 19th, 2007
In the previous post we discussed an all-time Chopin favorite, the Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9, No. 2. What then, is left to say about another Chopin classic - this Ballade in G minor?Plenty, it would appear. There’s an extremely technical description…Posted in Chopin, Musicology, Nocturnes, classical, piano on Dec 19th, 2007
Arthur Greene:
“Today’s entry takes us into far more familiar Chopin territory. The Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9 No. 2 comes from around 1830, -after Chopin had left Warsaw forever. But the version I’m playing here has a bit of a twist. There…
Posted in Chopin, Recordings, piano, rare & early works on Dec 18th, 2007
“In Warsaw, when Chopin was growing up, the social scene was extremely active, and anyone who wasn’t sick or crippled would go to dance parties almost every night. And the star of these events was usually Chopin, because he was…
Posted in Arthur Greene, Chopin, Musicology, Rondos, classical, piano on Dec 14th, 2007
By the time he was 15, Chopin had developed has piano technique considerably, and he was writing pieces that were firmly in the virtuoso tradition of the early Romantic period. Now, the general aesthetic at the time was not particularly…
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This rare bit of Chopiniana was supposedly written after violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini came through Warsaw in the summer of 1829, a concert we know that Chopin attended. A month later he graduated from the Higher School of Music in…
