Some composers’ names sound like their music.
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From the archives: Yuja Wang’s days as a Wunderkind. Here she is, playing Chopin’s Op. 42 Waltz in A-flat major.
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Stephen Hough goes film noire with Chopin for the Telegraph.
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artist: Ireneusz Jagla
song: Preludio en Sol Mayor Op. 28 num. 3
played: 71
Ireneusz Jagla plays Chopin’s Prelude in G major, Op. 28, no. 3. What’s special about this recording? It’s played on the Pleyel piano Chopin used while at the monastery in Valldemossa in Mallorca, Spain.
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Chopin’s works are guns buried in flowers.
Robert Schumann
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artist: Artur Rubinstein
song: Chopin: Prelude #4 In E Minor, Op. 28/4
played: 20
Rubinstein’s rendition of Chopin’s E minor Prelude, Op. 28, no. 4.
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Horowitz plays a concert at the White House in 1978 for President Jimmy Carter.
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Chopin’s Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1.
Stunning chromatic and pianistic writing.
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Threadless.com, you’ve done it well.
Clever—if not factually confusing (the date?)—shirt posing the question of what it would be like if the superstars of classical music’s bygone eras were touring today…
