Poland’s Chopin vodka is considered the world’s first super-premium vodka. The Dordas, a Polish vodka-making family, still makes the traditional potato vodka. Some 30 years ago, Chopin’s debut release ...

A saccharine show-off? Passionate revolutionary? Eternal schoolboy? Or perhaps a frustrated neurotic? In each of the four films based on Chopin's life, we get a completely different image of the ...

When Tadeusz (Tad) Dorda launched Chopin Vodka in 1992, the idea of a luxury vodka was virtually unheard of in the spirits world. The overwhelming perception was that it was a flavorless liquor best ...

WARSAW — Nearly two centuries after his birth, Frederic Chopin remains a remarkably potent artistic force in Poland’s capital, his age-old music inspiring perpetually new waves of creativity and ...

The beauty of Chopin's music, rare and unique, verges - one is tempted to say - on a miracle. Since this opinion runs somewhat counter to the fixed, common ideas about greatness in music, it has often ...

Though not the most imaginative take on the 21 nocturnes, the French pianist captures Chopin’s music as it was conceived on a superb-sounding 1836 Pleyel Chopin composed 21 nocturnes, 18 of which were ...

From wistful Waltzes and sensual Nocturnes to fiery Sonatas, what's not to love about Chopin? Perhaps even more than the works of Bach and Mozart, Chopin's music is almost universally admired — by ...

I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...

WARSAW--More than a half century after Mitsuko Uchida’s feat in 1970, Japan-born pianist Kyohei Sorita seemed unable to comprehend when he heard his name called out at the 18th International Chopin ...

Chopin, who wrote mostly piano solos, died aged 39 in France in 1849. A new piece of music believed to be by the Polish composer Frederic Chopin has been discovered nearly 200 years after it was ...