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Poland officially began commemorations of the bicentennial of the birth of its most celebrated composer, Frederic Chopin , on Friday with a ceremony at his birthplace, Zelazowa Wola, about 50 miles west of Warsaw, and a concert in the capital featuring the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

There s no difficulty choosing the most memorable instrumental DVDs I reviewed in 2009.

Piano duos are generally thought more fun for the players than for the audience: not here! Argerich and Freire, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival, are totally in sympathy; the perfectly balanced sonorities of the Brahms "Haydn" Variations proclaim that this is really special music-making. The playing is voiced with almost supernatural skill, ...

MUSIC SEOUL ARTS CENTER, Concert Hall Thursday: Haydn Philharmonia with Adam Fischer & Mischa Maisky.

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When pianist Gabriela Montero makes her debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra tonight , she will extend Mozart's Piano Concerto No.

Next year is the Schumann bicentenary, and all-Schumann recitals will doubtless proliferate.

Pianist Ingrid Fliter is talked about as a promising newbie - even, sometimes, as a great new hope, as great pianists of middle European repertoire retire or make rarer appearances .

In the new world order, anyone who is China's biggest musical superstar comes this close to being the world's biggest musical superstar as well.

Martha Argerich will be the subject of this month's edition of "Music on Film" at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, located at 4450 Fieldston Road.

Classical music is her forte, but improvisation is her fun. Pianist Gabriela Montero brings them both to Austin Peay State University's lush Concert Hall 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich was originally due to play two concertos in this Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Prom under its principal conductor-elect, Charles Dutoit.

Music lovers in London wait an age for Martha Argerich to play anything for solo piano and then two opportunities come along in quick succession.

'The Berlin Recital' is the new disc in the EMI Classics eclectic collection. It presents two absolutely outstanding, brilliant artists, Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich and Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, performing works by Robert Schumann and Bela Bartok.

It's almost an achievement, if a perverse one, to have audiences of up to 3,000 every night for two months and for those audiences to feature so few black faces that they stand out like ornaments.

As always, this Proms season is replete with big names: Martha Argerich, Bernard Haitink, Yo-Yo Ma.

By chance last year, when Chantal Juillet, artistic director of the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival and pianist Martha Argerich were looking for something humorous to watch on YouTube, they tuned in to a oeA Little Nightmare Music.a ... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

Whether by nature or nurture, the young pianist Evelyne Berezovsky is already the master, at college undergraduate entry age, of a fluid and refined pianism that cannot fail to give pleasure.

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