Description: Chopin lacked the physical strength to become a recitalist to rival Liszt or Beethoven – so how w...

Description: Louis Lortie explains how Chopin's love of Italian vocal style shaped the études

Description: Why do young audiences assume only slow music expresses deep feeling? Louis Lortie confesses his ...

Description: Chopin's études set problems that reveal themselves only in the playing. Louis Lortie explains so...

Description: Playing the études, Louis Lortie finds he can escape the circus mentality of modern music-making.

Description: Today's concert grands are radically different to the pianos of Chopin's day – but in the Fazioli...