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, 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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