Tess Vigeland: Get out the cake and candles for today marks the 200th birthday of someone near and dear to my heart as a classical pianist: Frederick Chopin. To think — if I had lived in 19th century ...

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 ...

HERE is an absolute blinder from ICA Classics, featuring the great pianist Claudio Arrau playing Chopin's First Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Fourth with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, now ...