How did Chopin's three sets of Études become one of the piano repertoire's most enduring and defining works? Find out with our handy guide… Chopin's reputation for piano composition is pretty ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Yunchan Lim’s collection of Chopin piano études, a new recording of Terry Riley’s “In C” and works by Marc-André Hamelin are among the highlights.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Little music so combines poetry and mystery with the most formidable technical challenges as Chopin's Etudes, the two sets of 12 studies ...

Chopin’s etudes are a kind of finishing school for pianists. Learning to play them at all gives a performer technique enough to handle most difficulties; learning to play them well leaves one with a ...

Nor could jury members avoid reckoning with Kevin Chen’s freakish virtuosity in the Chopin Etudes Op. 10, musical considerations aside. Although I don’t find Miyu Shindo’s artistry particularly ...

Listening to pianist Jocelyn Swigger's new album The Complete Chopin Études isn't like hearing these famous pieces for the first time again. But it is sure to give listeners a fresh perspective on ...

Watch this guy play Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude, but as a monstrously hard solo piano arrangement for left hand only. Arsha Kavani is an incredibly talented pianist, who probably has some level of ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Seulki Susie Yoo, DMA, is an internationally recognized pianist, whose interpretation is distinct in Romanticism music in the 19th ...

THE PIANO was Chopin’s central musical inspiration — not just the sound of it but the feel of it. He loved certain keys, such as B major, just because they feel good under the hand. Often it’s an ...

Every great pianist learns the Chopin etudes and many pianists venture to play a few of them in public. But it is the rare keyboard athlete who dares to play them all in one sitting and before a live ...

For a test of artistry, courage and endurance, together with an obsessive focus on one composer, there is nothing quite like ...

The International Chopin Piano Competition is entering its final round, with performances that attract millions of viewers.