Chopin wrote the "Polonaise" in 1830-31, but "Andante spianato", i.e. the beginning, was only ready in Paris in late 1834 / early 1835. The work was published in 1836 as the "Grande Polonaise ...

Felder’s closing performance of the Polonaise Heroique in A-flat major achieves a glorious, grandly beautiful majesty with powerful undercurrents of tension and agitation.

Kate Liu – Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E flat major Op. 22 (second stage) Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. posth. (1870) A devastating melody that lures you in at pianissimo, and ...

That Xu is more of a poet than a barnstormer was revealed in the F major Ballade’s outer sections, the trio of the Scherzo No 2 and the A flat Polonaise’s transitional G major episode. By way of ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians ...

As the evening drew to a close, Felder played the composer’s great Polonaise in A-flat major, bringing out the work’s Romantic sensitivity and rhythmic drive.

Chopin first introduced this expressive effect at the end of the introduction to the Variation on the theme of Mozart Opus 2, and used it later in the beautiful endings of the Nocturne in F sharp ...

2007: Prelude No. 15 in D flat major "Raindrop" As a 20-year-old in 2005, Rafal Blechacz swept the awards at the International Chopin Competition.