Garrick Ohlsson: "Why Chopin? and Other Questions" - Video MP4

Winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson is regarded as one of the world's leading performers of the music of Frédéric Chopin. He is also noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. In his 2009-2010 season, Mr. Ohlsson has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony, and the St. Petersburg Philarmonic, as well as the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Vancouver, Indianapolis, San Diego, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Baltimore.

16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw) - the Laureates' Concert, October 2010 - AVI

(Polish President Bronisław Komorowski at the Laureates' Concert, October 2010)

16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw) - the Laureates' Concert, October 2010

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (29 Volumes) - 2001

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (29 Volumes)

Yulianna Avdeeva - 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw) [2010, Classic / Piano, DVDRip]

Yulianna Avdeeva (Russian: Юлианна Авдеева, born July 3, 1985 in Moscow) is a Russian concert pianist. Avdeeva started piano lessons at the age of five, studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow, and graduated from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. After her graduation, she became assistant to her teacher, Konstantin Scherbakov. Since 2008 Avdeeva has studied at the International Piano Academy Lake Como. She has received outstanding international recognition as the winner of First Prize of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw, 2010). She is the fourth female to have won this title, after Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Bella Davidovich (ex aequo in 1949) and Martha Argerich (1965).

Guide to Sonatas: Music for One or Two Instruments - M.Berger - 1990

With the same authority, insight, and unique ability to bring music to life on the printed page that he brought to his Guide to Chamber Music, Melvin Berger gives us an indispensable guide to the sonata form. Comprehensive, analytical, and historical, including descriptions in nontechnical language of over two hundred of the best best-known sonatas, Guide to Sonatas is designed to help all music lovers−casual listeners, experienced concertgoers, performers, conductors, or teachers−deepen their understanding and enhance their enjoyment of the classical repertoire.

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings - T.Takemitsu - 1995

In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.