Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island. Now, Mikhail ...

Part of Reflections From the Keyboard. Pianist, teacher and author David Dubal hosts a weekly exploration of classical music's piano greats.

Pianist Rafal Blechacz's victory at the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (the first Polish performer to take the prize in 30 years) aroused plenty of interest in this young virtuoso.

This is one of Chopin's most mournful works has lived long in the memory thanks to Jack Nicholson, or all people. When you think of Chopin, you don't necessarily think of incurable sadness and ...

In the winter of 1838-39, Chopin and his lover George Sand set off to the Balearic Islands to escape the Parisian winter. Chopin took with him the partially completed manuscript of his Preludes, plus ...

Like others, I tend to repeat stories, but I figure it’s okay if they’re good ones. Let me quote a story I told in a September 2019 review: In the summer of 2012, I was driving from Ann Arbor, ...

Alexewicz is one of four Polish contestants who have qualified to the second stage. During his performance on Thursday, he played all 24 preludes from Opus 28. Reflecting on how his interpretation of ...

As longtime fans of the connective tissues between classical music and metal, we here at MetalSucks simply could not resist debuting this video of Frédéric Chopin’s “Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no. 4).” ...

GCSE Music Revision: Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 Movement 1 AQA GCSE Music Revision: Bartók - Hungarian Pictures - AQA Haydn: Symphony No.101, second movement - AQA Handel: Messiah - AQA Verdi: Requiem ...