The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin - from the Studio of Arthur Greene
Posted in Polina Khatsko, Recordings, Waltzes, piano on Feb 28th, 2008
Chopin’s third waltz has been called a “piece full of melancholy, gloom and grief, expressed in mournful simplicity.”
Though, according to the Vancouver Chopin Society,
The composer Stephen Heller related that Chopin called this slow (Lento) waltz his favorite. When Heller…
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,…
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