In his booklet notes for Chopin’s Ballades and Piano Sonata No 3, Jae-Hyuck Cho speaks of his goal to attain a genuine, singing legato on the piano. One suspects that this quest is at least partially ...
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 ...
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 ...
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