Category: Solo

• The piano: Chopin, Alkan & Saint-Saëns

  January 27, 2012

  Concerto, Piano music, Solo

  We British all know that Chopin was Polish but, once you cross the Channel, a strange aberration sets in. Ask any redblooded Frenchman/woman the nationality of the composer of all those Mazurkas and Polonaises and the answer will come back ‘bien sûr Monsieur/Madame, il était Français!’  Now, it must be – grudgingly – admitted that…