Chopin wrote only three sonatas, and only the latter two are regularly played. But what stupendous pieces they are. Composers of Chopin’s era were generally intimidated by the sonata form, because ...

Chopin: Piano Sonatas No. 1 in C minor, Op.4; No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35; No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Cyprien Katsaris, piano (Sony). Though lacking the Olympian authority of Artur Rubinstein, Cyprien ...

Hiroya Hatsushiba, the president of Tri-Crescendo came up with the concept for Eternal Sonata because of his love for Frédéric Chopin’s music. Stephanie Fernandez, the localization producer of Eternal ...

Chopin, Sonata No. 2 (“Funeral March”) in B-flat Minor (opus 35) and Ballade No. 4 in F Minor (opus 52), and Juliusz Zarebski, “Novellette Caprice” (opus 19), “Grande Polonaise” (opus 6), “Serenade ...

Over the weekend, I finally made my way to the local Electronics Boutique to pick up a copy of the recently released Namco-Bandai RPG Eternal Sonata. I'd been looking forward for the title for quite a ...

The Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, invariably an inspired artist, here couples two of the greatest cello sonatas from the early Romantic period, both written in the 1840s. Much the stronger and more ...

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The main prize at the recent 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition was won by Cho Seong-Jin. The 21-year-old musician comes from the Republic of Korea and is a student of Michel Béroff ...

American pianist Eric Lu won the top prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, the contest's Polish ...