Celebrate one of the greatest piano composers in history, Frédéric Chopin, with us today by listening to the Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman’s performance of Ballade no 2 in F-major while following along in Chopin’s autograph manuscript (available for free from pianostreet.com throughout the year 2010). Or if you are up for an even more exciting birthday experience, print out the […]

Reporting from Warsaw — The stirring strains of Frederic Chopin‘s music are reverberating across the world as music lovers celebrate the composer’s 200th birthday this year — from the château of his French lover to Egypt’s pyramids and even into space. But nowhere do celebrations carry the powerful sense of national feeling as they do in Poland, the land of […]

Chopin 2010 – Celebrating the 200th Anniversary Around the World! Extensive information can be found on the official website available in Polish, English, French to this day and soon in Japanese and Chinese. Special Birthday Concerts is the first of the three key highlights of the Chopin Year. Held by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, the concerts series spans […]

Together with Lang Lang and Yundi Li, Sa Chen (born 1979) is considered as one of today’s most important Chinese pianists and a veritable international sensation. Originally a student of Professor Dan Zhao, China’s most eminent piano teacher, she won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition and fourth place in the 2000 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition […]

The Waltzes of Chopin have little in common with those by Schubert or those by the Strauss circle – he even wrote home from Vienna pouring scorn on the waltz, horrified by the fact that “they actually call waltzes works”. But perhaps with the intention of raising it to a higher level, he went on to make continuous efforts in […]

One plus one equals three? Synergy. It’s a word most of us are familiar with, but sometimes difficult to grasp. Synergies arise when the combination of energies, resources, talents and efforts add up to more than the sum of their parts. The idea of combining challenging principles in the Études of Chopin (Opp. 10 and 25) was tested at an […]

The Etudes Opus 25 by Frédéric Chopin are now available in PS Urtext editions in our sheet music library, http://www.pianostreet.com/search/searchcollection.php?id=24

PS Urtext edition of the etudes opus 10 by Frédéric Chopin has been added to our sheet music library. http://www.pianostreet.com/search/searchcollection.php?id=24

26 new tracks have been added: Chopin – Preludes op 28 no 6 and 7 Clementi – Sonatinas op 36 no 2 and 3 Handel – Minuet in G HWV 450 Hummel – Rondo Köhler – Sonatina op 300 Lemoin – op 37 no 3 and 6 Mozart – Sorrow March K453a Mozart – Minuet in F K94 Mozart – […]