Chinese pianist Lang Lang rehearses with Warsaw Philharmonic for a concert to launch the 200th-anniversary celebrations of the birth of Frédéric Chopin. ((Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images) ) Chinese ...

Yes, it’s true: Pianist Lang Lang’s sensational, globe-trotting career began with a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon. “I was 2 years old,” says Lang Lang (pronounced “long long”) by phone from New York. “It ...

13-year-old Lucy is blind and neurodivergent, and left judges speechless with her incredible performance of a Chopin nocturne on Channel 4 show ‘The Piano’. Lucy, who is blind and neurodivergent, is ...

An unknown waltz by Chopin has been found. By Javier C. Hernández I’m a reporter covering classical music, opera and dance. As The Times’s classical music reporter, I don’t often get “news” from ...

This follow-up to the pianist’s hit 2019 record features a diverse set ranging from Mozart and Chopin to themes from films ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The ...

Technical brilliance and polished playing from pianist Lang Lang, in his latest album of Chopin. Album of the Week, 15 October 2012 Chopin's masterful Etudes are packed full of character, charm, and ...

If, like me, your earliest image of Frédéric Chopin comes from Hollywood's A Song to Remember; and if the first thing the composer's name suggests is a handsome young man seated at a grand piano on a ...

Dull moments aren't just few and far between this weekend at Severance Hall. They're nonexistent. Yet the experience is also hugely uneven, with heat from the Cleveland Orchestra, music director Franz ...

There may be no work better suited to Lang Lang's talents and inclinations than Frederic Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, as evidenced by his remarkable performance last night with ...

Chopin's Polish identity is central to his music and Chopin himself is intrinsic to the identity of Warsaw, where he was born in 1810. The city has launched a year of celebrations, including a new ...

A few weeks before appearing at Versailles Lang Lang recorded his recital of Chopin and Tchaikovsky at the Opéra Bastille. There is a revolutionary ardour to his playing of Chopin’s four Scherzos, its ...