Many great composers go through periods of significant self-doubt and introspection – particularly when embarking on a major new work. For Chopin, though, there was a sense of abandonment – naïvety, ...

In the latest of his 70th birthday albums Nelson Freire turns to Chopin. The programme is Chopin public and private, one-half concerto, one-half solo works. The Piano Concerto No. 2 is at its best ...

The veteran Brazilian virtuoso Nelson Freire crowns his 70th birthday year with the latest in three new releases from Decca, a Chopin collection that culminates in a beautifully controlled account of ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 5 January 2015. Join John Brunning on Classic FM Drive after 6pm each weekday to hear a track from this album. The pianist Nelson Freire turned 70 in October 2014 and ...

The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...

Building a Library: Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor. Frédéric Chopin composed this glorious concerto in 1829 when he was 20 and before he ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Philharmonia Orchestra Carlo Maria Giulini, Conductor Arthur Rubinstein, Piano (4) Ballades, Movements: No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 ...

(3) Impromptus, Movements: No. 3 in G flat, Op. 51 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Nelson Freire, Piano Ballade No. 4 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Nelson Freire, Piano Berceuse Nelson Freire, Piano Fryderyk ...

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