Remarkably, this is the only piece of Chopin solo piano music that has been a permanent fixture of the Classic FM Hall of Fame since its inception in 1996. As with the concertos, this particular ...

For example, the B major Nocturne, Op 32 No 1, nonchalantly slips right into Op 9 No 3 in the same key. One doesn’t have to study music theory to aurally sense the subtle unity of key relationships ...

Nocturnes, Movements: No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9/1 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Israela Margalit, Piano Nocturnes, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2 Fryderyk Chopin ...

In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...