The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin - from the Studio of Arthur Greene
Posted in Barcarolles, Chopin, Recordings, classical, piano on Dec 12th, 2007
Hear Arthur Greene perform Chopin’s Barcarolle in F-sharp minor, Op. 60
This is one of the last pieces that Chopin played in public. The excellent notes from the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s website set the stage:
When in 1846 Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) completed the Barcarolle,…
Posted in Chopin, Polonaises, Recordings, piano on Dec 12th, 2007
“The very first piece on the program is a piece that Chopin wrote when he was seven years old. It’s very typical of the music that was being written at that time in Warsaw…a little Polonaise…with even a little virtuosic…
Posted in Chopin, Musicology, classical on Dec 11th, 2007
As you look through the entries and listings of Chopin’s keyboard works on these pages, you may run into this funny “KK” designation, particularly in the early recitals. It stands for the Kobylanska Katalog, and it’s assigned to works by Chopin…
Posted in Chopin, Recordings, classical, piano on Nov 24th, 2007
Experience the musical life of Fryderyk Chopin through his complete works for solo piano: from his earliest surviving work, a polonaise written at age 7, through his last mazurka penned in 1849.
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Posted in Chopin, Musicology, Recordings, classical, piano on Nov 23rd, 2007
The Chopin Project began as an ambitious live-concert-and-symposium series at the University of Michigan’s acclaimed School of Music, Theatre & Dance devoted to exploring the entirety of Fryderyk Chopin’s works for solo piano: Through a series of nine concerts at Britton Recital…
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