The Irish composer John Field is credited with the invention of one of the most popular classical genres. John Field is a relatively unknown name in today’s classical music world, but he was a hugely ...

Andrea Lam performs Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. on piano in Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, 2025.

When Alice Sara Ott heard one of Field’s Nocturnes for the first time, she says “it was as if I had known it since my ...

Ever since Chopin, music can hardly be any longer thought of as an abstract construct merely conveyed ... The variety of moods and emotional states is discernible even in the nocturnes, a genre that ...

The music of Poland’s eminent Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist Fryderyk Chopin inspired a great many things. Instead of the obvious, like biographical films, here Culture.pl looks at seven ...

His playing and his invention of a new kind of piano piece, the nocturne, were to influence Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Interviewees include pianists John O'Conor, Finnuala Moynihan ...

Among the featured compositions are Chopin’s ballades, études, nocturnes, preludes, and waltzes. Sadly, Chopin won’t be getting any posthumous Oscars, as the music – which is performed by Canadian ...