Even now, performances of the masterpieces of the 19th-century piano repertoire on keyboards of the composer’s time are not exactly commonplace, and when Cyril Huvé made his recordings of Chopin’s ...

Fryderyk Chopin: Scherzo in B minor Op. 20 (1831-35), Scherzo in B flat minor Op. 31 (1835-37), Scherzo in C sharp minor Op. 39 (1839), Scherzo in E major Op. 54 (1842). The genre's top achievement, ...

Capturing the momentum of two of Shostakovich’s first Soviet-era symphonies, this performance adds a pair of scherzos that pre-date even them If the key stylistic reference in Shostakovich’s ...

My immediate reaction to the opening track – the first of the Four Scherzos – was ‘fast, furious, fantastic fingers, with very little breathing space for any question-and-answer phrasing’. The opening ...

I truly enjoyed Antonio Pompa-Baldi’s powerful interpretation of Chopin’s complete Scherzos. In fact, when the album ended I was sorry that the pianist did not include more of Chopin’s music, such as ...

Each performance is preceded by a complimentary champagne reception, served from 30 minutes before the recital begins. Step into the world of Frédéric Chopin, whose brilliant and emotionally rich ...