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 ...

A balladeer is someone who tells a story in song, so you’d expect something called a ’ballade’ to be something like a story in notes. But Chopin left no clue about what stories had in mind - so ...

How to make the Chopin Ballades sound fresh? For the veteran British pianist Stephen Hough, who essayed the complete set in the second half of his Friday recital in Rockport, the answer lies in ...

"It's like a sandwich - French rye bread at the ends and some a Polish sausage in the middle," says British pianist Stephen Hough of his recital programme, before playing Chopin's Op. 15 No. 2 ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...

The last concert featuring the laureates of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition will take place at ...

How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano ...

Marcin Majchrowski, musicologist and music journalist, has described the victory of American pianist Eric Lu at the 19th ...

Adam Neiman lets his fingers do the talking, tearing into the dramatic Ballade No. 4 by Chopin. The young American pianist says the music tells a... A Chopin Ballade To Blow You Away A Chopin Ballade ...