In the mid-19th century, the genre known as the piano ballade illuminated the Central European night like a flash of lightning. Invented by Chopin in 1836, its ascendancy ended in 1854 with Brahms’s ...
To hear one of Chopin’s four ballades in a recital is thrilling. To hear all four is, well, almost unheard of. Which is why the audience at Sunday’s Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Piano and Friends ...
If so, superstar pianist Lang Lang deserves it for his Tuesday night Mozart/Chopin recital, presented by the San Antonio Symphony at the Majestic Theatre. It was Lang Lang's second San Antonio ...