George Balanchine (real name: Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze) can probably lay as good a claim as any artist living to the title of master of arts. He does not paint, but he does just about ...

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Chopin had the courage to believe that the expression contained in a three-minute Mazurka for solo piano could be as powerful as the expression in... A World Of Expression In A Tiny Chopin Mazurka A ...

Later in the hour, a single member of the Montreal Symphony breaks away to do his own thing. First, we'll hear the entire orchestra. From Tchaikovsky's score for Swan Lake, it's the Mazurka from Act ...

No composer embodies the Romantic image of the “pale and interesting” aesthete better than Frederic Chopin. Which is why quite a few classical music lovers are wary of him. They feel someone who was ...

Emil Mlynarski (1870-1935), the father-in-law of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, began his career as a violinist but became better known as a conductor and organiser than as a composer. His two violin ...

Couples spin to the lively tempo of Poland’s mazurka folk dance in scenes reminiscent of peasant life from centuries past. To rhythmic violin and accordion, they could almost be back in the simple ...

Couples spin to the lively tempo of Poland's mazurka folk dance in scenes reminiscent of peasant life from centuries past. To rhythmic violin and accordion, they could almost be back in the simple ...