Monday, March 1

It's Frederic Chopin's 200th birthday. Happy Chopin bicentennial! Where would piano music be without him? Romantic music? Music altogether? Even his etudes ("studies") have the power to move. The Chopin celebration kicks off today - with Garrick Ohlsson playing etudes, Nelson Freire playing a sonata and Emanuel Ax in a piece for piano and orchestra - and continues all week on GPB.

11 AM
  • Chopin: Etude in C major, Op. 10/1. Garrick Ohlsson. Arabesque 6718.
  • Chopin: Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 25/7. Garrick Ohlsson. Arabesque 6718.
  • Chopin/Glazunov: Chopiniana, Op. 46. Moscow Sym Orch, Ziva. Naxos 8.555048.
  • Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. Nelson Freire. Decca 289 470 288.
  • Chopin: "Black Key" Etude in G-flat major, Op. 10/5. Garrick Ohlsson. Arabesque 6718.
12 N
  • Chopin: "Aeolian Harp" Etude in A-flat, Op. 25/1. Garrick Ohlsson. Arabesque 6718.
  • Chopin: Variations on Mozart's "La ci darem la mano." Emanuel Ax, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mackerras. Sony 60771.
  • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581. Stanley Drucker, Elysium String Quartet. Elysium 716.
  • Chopin: "Revolutionary" Etude in C minor, Op. 10/12. Garrick Ohlsson. Arabesque 6718.
1 PM
  • Chopin: Etude in F major, Op. 10/8. Garrick Ohlsson. Arabesque 6718.
  • Chopin: Bolero in C major, Op. 19. Roland Pontinen. BIS 673.
  • Szymanowski: Symphony No. 2 in B-flat. Warsaw Phil, Ewa Marczyk, Wit. Naxos 8.570721.
  • Chopin: Etude in C minor, Op. 25/12. Garrick Ohlsson. Arabesque 6718.
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