The Chopin Podcast
Episodes
Season 2 Episode 7: VARIETY SHOW
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've reached the finish line here in Season 2 Episode 7, dedicated to some of the outlier pieces that fall outside Chopin's more well-known genres In...
Season 2 Episode 6: CONCERTOS
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 2 Episode 6, Ben Laude and Garrick Ohlsson explore Chopin's two large-scale works for piano and orchestra, the Concertos; 2021 Internation...
Season 2 Episode 5: SONATAS
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this fifth episode of Season 2, Ben Laude and Garrick Ohlsson turn their attention to Chopin's multi-movement masterpieces, the Sonatas. Then, 2010...
Season 2 Episode 4: POLONAISES
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this fourth episode of Season 2, Ben Laude meets Garrick Ohlsson in his home to explore Chopin's Polonaises at the piano. Then we're joined by a pa...
Season 2 Episode 3: MAZURKAS - Part II
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second of two episodes on Chopin Mazurkas, pianist Garrick Ohlsson confronts Chopin's most genius and epic Mazurkas; Polish musician Janusz Pr...
Season 2 Episode 2: MAZURKAS - Part I
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first of two episodes on Chopin's Mazurkas, Garrick Ohlsson deciphers select Mazurkas from across Chopin's compositional periods; music critic...
Season 2 Episode 1: WALTZES
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of Season 2, pianist Garrick Ohlsson surveys the many brilliant Waltzes Chopin composed for the piano throughout his career; wor...
Season 1 Episode 9: BARCAROLLE, BERCEUSE, FANTAISIE
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 9, pianist Garrick Ohlsson pushes his oar through three singular masterpieces of Chopin – the Barcarolle, Berceuse, and Fantaisie. We're ...
Season 1 Episode 8: IMPROMPTUS & IMPROVISATION
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 8, pianist Garrick Ohlsson explores the wonders inside Chopin Four Impromptus; we welcome back Cambridge Professor of Music John Rink to in...
Season 1 Episode 7: THE NEW WALTZ
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7 is a special investigation into the newly-discovered Waltz in A minor, attributed to Chopin. As the manuscript's chain of ownership contin...
Season 1 Episode 6: ETUDES - Part II
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 6 is the second in a two-pack of episodes on Chopin's Etudes. In this episode, we will profile three pianists who have dared to walk the intri...
Season 1 Episode 5: ETUDES - Part I
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 is the first of two episodes dedicated to Chopin's Etudes. This episode itself is divided into two big parts featuring Garrick Ohlsson, who ...
Season 1 Episode 4: SCHERZOS
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 4, pianist Garrick Ohlsson explores Beethovenian brilliance of Chopin's Four Scherzos; silver medalist and top prize-winner of the 1990 Int...
Season 1 Episode 3: BALLADES
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 3, pianist Garrick Ohlsson explores the most tender, heroic, and even sadistic passages of Chopin's Four Ballades at the keyboard; gold med...
Season 1 Episode 2: NOCTURNES
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2, pianist Garrick Ohlsson explores what makes Chopin's Nocturnes so seductive to our ears; silver medalist of the 1975 Chopin Comeptition ...
Season 1 Episode 1: PRELUDES
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 1, host Ben Laude invites pianist Garrick Ohlsson to lead a tour of Chopin's miniature miracles, the 24 Preludes, Op. 28; biographer Alan W...
The Chopin Podcast Preview
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Garrick Ohlsson and Ben Laude for a 16-part deep dive into the music of Chopin. Each episode in this series is dedicated to one of Chopin's major...