People have been singing ballads since the beginning of human history, and poets have been writing them for almost that long. But it took Frederic Chopin to turn the ballad (or ballade, as he called ...

Sonata for Piano No. 1 Vassily Primakov, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer (4) Scherzos, Movements: No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 (1831-32) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Vassily Primakov, Piano (4) Ballades, ...

As his last couple of London recitals have demonstrated, Maurizio Pollini is on magisterial form at the moment, and this carefully planned Chopin sequence, grouping together the works of Opp 34 to 36 ...

This epic Chopin ballade takes its time to get going, but once it does you'll be completely swept along. Chopin initially composed his set of one-movement ballades between 1831 and 1842, and quickly ...

Sonata for Piano No. 2, 'Funeral March' Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Angela Brownridge, Piano (4) Ballades Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Angela Brownridge, Piano Fantasie Angela Brownridge, Piano Fryderyk ...

Stephen Johnson is joined by pianist Cedric Tiberghien for an exploration of Chopin's Four Ballades and their possible hidden links to literature. With conductor and researcher Christopher Gayford, ...

This all began with Gary. We were a group of strangers, who had come to the Lot valley in central France to play the piano for a week; keen amateurs all. Gary seemed the outsider – a little awkward, ...

"While I get to play music from many different eras, Chopin remains at the heart of my concert life," says Charles Richard-Hamelin, who has just released Ballades & Impromptus, his third all-Chopin ...