The Financial Times

Chopin: Nocturnes, Journal Intime and Polonaises

Chopin was born 200 years ago on Monday, but it’s a tricky anniversary to celebrate. His oeuvre, almost exclusively for piano, offers little scope for repackaging. There is nothing to be dug up or ...
The New York Times

THE NINETY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF FREDERIC CHOPIN; Disputes as to the Date of His Birth Apparently Settled -- Rubinstein Called Him "Soul of the Piano."

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Chopin Nocturnes

In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Chopin Nocturnes

A sticker on the cover notes that in this two-CD set "the greatest of all living Chopin interpreters records the composer's best-loved works for the first time". Greatest? Best? Two big claims, but ...