Filip Lech, Culture.pl’s music journalist and editor, and Iza Smelczyńska, musicologist and improviser, discuss the first round of the Chopin Competition.

For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grzędziński away from the front line and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The morning session concluded with Wei-Ting Hsieh, who has become a more forceful and confident Chopin-player since her 2021 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Yunchan Lim took first prize in the Van Cliburn Competition in 2022 he was the youngest ever winner at ...

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 ...

Individually and collectively, the Chopin etudes represent a formidable mountain that several famous pianists have refrained from climbing. In his new Grammy-nominated album of the Opp. 10 and 25, ...

Chopin’s ‘Waterfall’ Étude? Talk about jumping in at the deep end... “What Happens When I Play Chopin’s ‘Waterfall’ in the Water?” this musician asked himself one day, as lockdown began to take its ...