Charles Rosen: A life in music

'Chopin's style changed and I've probably changed my way of playing him. I've had a very long relationship with this music'The pianist Charles Rosen released his first Chopin recording in 1960. It included one of the late nocturnes, opus 62 no 1, written just a year before the end of Chopin's 10-year relationship with George Sand and three years before his death, aged 39, in 1849. Rosen says he wasn't entirely happy with the recording, but he was even more disappointed with the sleeve note, whic...

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