CHOPIN BICENTENARY
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If you missed Tom Service's terrific Music Matters programme on R3 devoted to Chopin, you can download it as a podcast. In-depth interviews with "Maurizio and Krystian" take centre stage, but there's also fasc
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Full house and a standing ovation were waiting for Krystian Zimerman at the Royal Festival Hall for the first of Chopin's two big birthday concerts yesterday. Half of Poland seemed to be there, never mind half of London, while dignitaries, diplom
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According to the Chopin Society, there is more evidence for today being Chopin's real birthday than next Monday, so let's do this now: HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY, FREDERIC CHOPIN! Here's to the next 200
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