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Programme of the Conference 'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century' 3-5 December 2025, Warsaw, Poland

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  These papers and the conference promise to be intensely interesting. Programme of the Conference  'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century' 3 December 10.00–11.00 Keynote lecture Henrike Rost,  Writing women’s history with nineteenth-century friendship albums I have decided to reprint an essay I wrote some time ago  on female composers  as they are rather an obsession of mine and it relates well to the major theme of this conference. I will review the fascinating presentations on this gender based musical subject a little later. Today I was introduced to (for me at least) unknown but highly talented and deeply engaging female composers from Chile. Because of my own preoccupation with period pianos and in particular those of Pleyel (the ne plus ultra instruments of Chopin), I found of immense interest the paper by  Dylan Henderson entitled  ‘A fragrance of the freshest flowers’: Chopi...
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13th International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski (6 November 1860 – 29 June 1941) starring in the innocent and lyrical film  Moonlight Sonata  (1936) Through the great generosity of the organizers, I was invited to the Finals and Laureates' Concert of  the 13th International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz   https://paderewskicompetition.pl/ My reviews, as they are no longer in an 'official' capacity, will be more of an overall impression than my usual detailed, contextual approach The River Brda at Bydgoszcz Finals of the   13th International Paderewski Piano Competition Bydgoszcz  List of PARTICIPANTS (all outstanding pianists) selected to the FINAL of the 13th International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz 2025 AOSHIMA Shuhei Liszt - Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major , S. 124 This was a fine performance of an difficult although rather short concerto. Overall I felt there could have been far more Lisztian fire and urgency although the Quasi - Adagio had a beautiful ...
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