Chopin can feel impossible to classify, and that’s exactly what makes him so fascinating.
In this lesson segment, Garrick Ohlsson explores how Chopin lives between classical structure and romantic imagination, with insights that can reshape the way you hear and play this music.
Rather than treating style as a label, Ohlsson shows how it works inside the sound itself.
You’ll come away with a sharper sense of the roles of phrasing, architecture, and expressive balance — along with a deeper appreciation of the discipline and fantasy equally demanded from any serious performer of Chopin's works.
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