The Financial Times

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 — review

In the latest of his 70th birthday albums Nelson Freire turns to Chopin. The programme is Chopin public and private, one-half concerto, one-half solo works. The Piano Concerto No. 2 is at its best ...
The Guardian

Kalkbrenner: Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3; Adagio and Allegro di Bravura

Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) was a Franco-German composer-pianist whose reputation was eclipsed in his lifetime by Chopin and Liszt, among others. Though his music is variable in inspiration, ...
Classic FM

Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 - Nelson Freire

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 5 January 2015. Join John Brunning on Classic FM Drive after 6pm each weekday to hear a track from this album. The pianist Nelson Freire turned 70 in October 2014 and ...
The Guardian

Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 CD review – elegant restraint from Nelson Freire

The veteran Brazilian virtuoso Nelson Freire crowns his 70th birthday year with the latest in three new releases from Decca, a Chopin collection that culminates in a beautifully controlled account of ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: Yunchan Lim And The New York Philharmonic Perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2

November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...