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, ...

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 ...

Explore the ability of composer Frederic Chopin’s masterwork Ballade Number 1 to transform lives.s. Featuring commentary from four of the world’s greatest pianists ̶ Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lang Lang, ...

How lives were shaped and changed by hearing and playing Chopin's technically demanding, emotionally turbulent music. From 2008. Show more Chopin's Ballade clearly tells a story, and yet that story ...

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, ...

Following on from his Chopin Preludes disc comes Li Yundi’s first recording of what are arguably the composer’s biggest challenges: the four Ballades. They are coolly but compellingly dispatched, with ...

(4) Ballades, Movements: No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Alfred Cortot, Piano (4) Ballades, Movements: No. 2 in F, Op. 38 Alfred Cortot, Piano ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Chopin's Ballade clearly tells a story, and yet that story differs for each person who hears or plays it. Pianist Peter Donohoe heads a cast of people whose lives have been shaped and changed by ...