People have been singing ballads since the beginning of human history, and poets have been writing them for almost that long. But it took Frederic Chopin to turn the ballad (or ballade, as he called ...

Explore the ability of composer Frederic Chopin’s masterwork Ballade Number 1 to transform lives.s. Featuring commentary from four of the world’s greatest pianists ̶ Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lang Lang, ...

As a pianist, Frederic Chopin possessed talents beyond emulation. He had an impact on other musicians entirely out of proportion to the number of concerts he gave — only 30 public performances in 30 ...

A balladeer is someone who tells a story in song, so you’d expect something called a ’ballade’ to be something like a story in notes. But Chopin left no clue about what stories had in mind - so ...

This epic Chopin ballade takes its time to get going, but once it does you'll be completely swept along. Chopin initially composed his set of one-movement ballades between 1831 and 1842, and quickly ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How did Chopin play the piano? A veil of mystery will always stand between us and composers who lived before ...

Stephen Johnson is joined by pianist Cedric Tiberghien for an exploration of Chopin's Four Ballades and their possible hidden links to literature. With conductor and researcher Christopher Gayford, ...

Performance taken from Jae-Hyuck Cho's new album on Orchid Classics Recently released on Orchid Classics is an album of Chopin's music by Korean pianist and organist Jae-Hyuck Cho. It includes ...