....a roundup of Chopiniana: current news, views, reviews, recordings and performances in the runup to the 200th birthday of the matchless Polish keyboard composer.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The Chopin Currency - Jan. 29, 2008

Chopin In the News:

Chopin, With Progenitors and Progeny
New York Times - United States
In a brief program note Mr. Goode called the concert “a kind of homage to Chopin.” In practice, this meant surrounding Chopin’s works with music by German ...
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Hamelin takes his piano off-roading
Boston Globe - United States
The second half began with some beautifully supple Chopin (Barcarolle, Op. 60 and Ballade No. 3) and proceeded with Liszt arrangements of more Chopin and ...
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Why hospitals make you sick
Independent - London,England,UK
Colin Ludlow is not so sure There is a scene in one of Ken Russell's musical biographies where the consumptive Chopin coughs up blood over his piano. ...
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Art Talk: Which is the best single piano piece ever written?
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
Lately, my music of choice has been the Ballades of Frederic Chopin (in a photograph, taken near the end of his life in 1849, at left). ...
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Premiera "Living With The Classics"
Onet.pl - Poland
Fryderyk Chopin "Sonata No. 2" in B-Flat Major, Mvt. 4 (Presto) Flavio Varani, piano 11. Modest Moussorgsky "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" from Pictures ...
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Chopin In the Blogosphere:

CHOPIN - Thru Chopins' Eyes
Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical Romantic Music:Chopin: Join us for an unusual view into the history of Poland and Paris through the eyes of Chopin in the 1800's. Through his aristocratic Polish friends, Chopin knew the influential ...
Massachusetts Performers & Programs... - http://www.semls.org/performer/index.asp

Music calms dogs in animal shelters
By Therese
For dogs, a growing body of research indicates they bark less and suffer fewer anxiety attacks when listening to Bach, Schubert and Chopin. In the Inland area, piped-in chamber music, concertos and sonatas waft through county animal ...
The PetsitUSA.com Blog - http://petsitusa.com/blog

Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58
By The Avant Gardener
Martha Argerich: Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58 - I. Allegro maestoso (composed 1844, recorded 1965), from the Martha Argerich Plays Chopin: The Legendary 1965 Recording (EMI, 1999)
Good Vibrato - http://goodvibrato.org

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....is a roundup of all things Chopin leading up to the 200th anniversary of the matchless Polish composer for the piano in March 2010.