Being produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birthday, The Flying Machine takes the eternally fascinating and affecting Études, and crafts a celebration of the role that music and dance play in our lives, especially in our first pre-teen steps into the adult world. The premier was a one-off film event at the Royal Festival Hall in London on […]

Listen to 809 performances of Chopin pieces while following along in the scores! One of the highlights of Chopin‘s 200th anniversary has been the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. As a final tribute this year to Frédéric Chopin and the participants in the competition we have put together a page with all the pieces performed in the competition. It […]

Four concert pieces by Chopin in editions by Mikuli (solo piano part with orchestral cues) have been added to our sheet music library. Opus 2: Variations on Mozart’s ‘La ci darem la mano’ The variations on a theme from Mozart‘s opera Don Giovanni was the first of Chopin’s works to be published outside his own country. This is the piece […]

Chopin composed about 200 works. 110 were dances such as mazurkas, waltzes and polonaises. At the age of seven, he composed his first polonaise in B-flat major, and throughout his career he made the form exclusively his own, overshadowing the early examples by Oginski and Kurpinski. Chopin’s mature polonaises form a heroic national epic. In these works, Chopin’s patriotism envisions […]

Russia’s Yulianna Avdeeva won the prestigious 2010 International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition on Wednesday after a three-week musical marathon followed avidly by classical music lovers around the globe. The competition, the oldest of its kind in the world, is held every five years in the Polish capital and has built up an especially enthusiastic following in Asia. A jury that […]

The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, the oldest of its kind in the world, is held every five years in the Polish capital Warsaw and is avidly followed by lovers of Chopin, the Franco-Polish composer and pianist who was born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wola near the Polish capital. Eighty-one pianists from 23 countries are now competing for honours at […]

All About Chopin is an international challenge testing your knowledge about Chopin and an initiative of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, implemented by the Krystyna Bochenek Katowice Cultural Centre, the Chopin 2010 Celebrations Office and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw. The contest marks the Chopin Year and will take place on October 16th – 17th 2010 in Katowice. […]

Piano Street has today published a new urtext edition of the Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin. This new edition attempts to present the most valid version of these pieces following consensus among today’s prominent scholars and pianists. The edition has Chopin’s own fingering only and for anyone needing further advice on fingering we refer to the edition by Herrmann Scholtz, also […]

Luigi Borgato, born in 1963, designs and builds concert-grand pianos together with his wife Paola Bianchi, which are of innovative conception and highly regarded by well-known international pianists. Each BORGATO piano is built completely by hand, unique reality of true handicraft creations in its field. BORGATO’s first grand piano, model BORGATO L 282, was presented in Pesaro in April 1991 […]

“Because of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano a man sat waiting Monday afternoon in the Newark airport instead of on a plane to Berlin. Thank you unpronounceable volcano. Sitting there, the man got a phone call. Yuja Wang had a sore arm, it seemed, and a doctor had ordered her to rest. The man didn’t wonder why they were telling him this. […]

After initial selection based DVD recordings of the compulsory repertoire, the jury chose 215 contestants to take part in further auditions in Warsaw. The group features 24 Poles, 23 Chinese representatives, one person from Hong Kong, five pianists representing Taipei, 22 from Russia and 20 from the USA. The most numerous group – 40 pianists – comes from Japan. The […]

“This is an oustanding achievement, which any genuine Chopin lover and student of Romantic music should own … A landmark in the recording of Chopin’s music … Garrick Ohlsson and Hyperion deserve the greatest success in bringing this important undertaking to such a consistently impressive conclusion” (International Record Review) Garrick Ohlsson was the first American to win first prize in […]