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Etude in A minor, Op. 10, No. 2

Posted in Chopin, Etudes, Musicology, Recordings, classical, piano on Jan 29th, 2008

Xiaofeng Wu in performance
The world of music had never before known any études as original, as musical, or as difficult. — Frank Cooper
This is one of the best-known (and arguably, the most difficult!) of the set of twelve études Chopin dedicated to Franz Liszt. The…

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Three Ecossaises, Op. 72

Posted in Chopin, Recordings, piano, rare & early works on Dec 18th, 2007

Chopin at a Warsaw dance party Arthur Greene:

“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…

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Barcarolle in F-sharp minor, Op. 60

Posted in Barcarolles, Chopin, Recordings, classical, piano on Dec 12th, 2007

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Hear Arthur Greene perform Chopin’s Barcarolle in F-sharp minor, Op. 60


Chopin - Barcarolle in F-sharp, 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,…

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Chopin’s First Piece

Posted in Chopin, Polonaises, Recordings, piano on Dec 12th, 2007

rev_greene03.jpg “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…

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Welcome to the Chopin Project!

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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The Chopin Project - the Back Story

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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