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Eric Guo - Winner of the 2nd International Chopin Piano Competition on Period instruments Warsaw, 2023 - Fryderyk Chopin 214th Birthday Concert at the Warsaw Filharmonia -1st March 2024

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  Eric Guo Winner of the 2nd International Chopin Piano Competition on Period instruments Warsaw, 2023 Fryderyk Chopin 214th Birthday Concert,  Warsaw  1st March 2024 Photographs by  Wojciech  Grzędziński Eric Guo chose to play the infrequently performed Chopin  F minor concerto arranged for solo piano by Chopin .  Remember despite the opus number,  this was the first piano concerto Chopin wrote. It follows the Mozart model and was directly influenced by the  style brillant  of Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles and Ries.  Schumann wrote of it: 'of the second concerto, which we can all together barely reach, we can only kiss the edge of his royal garment.' This inspirational remark on its gestation is rightly famous: ‘As I already have, perhaps unfortunately, my ideal, whom I faithfully serve, without having spoken to her for half a year already, of whom I dream, in remembrance of whom was created the adagio of my concerto’  (Chopin to his friend Tytus Woyciechowski, 3 October 1829

Eric Guo - Winner of the 2nd International Chopin Piano Competition on Period instruments Warsaw, 2023 - Fryderyk Chopin 214th Birthday Concert at Żelazowa Wola 1st March 2024 Performed on an 1838 Erard

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Eric Guo Winner of the 2nd International Chopin Piano Competition on Period instruments Warsaw, 2023                  Fryderyk Chopin 214th Birthday Concert at Żelazowa Wola 1st March 2024 Performed on an 1838  Erard The  Dworek  at Żelazowa Wola, the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin, 1st March 1810 Photographs by  Wojciech  Grzędziński The Eric Guo recital at the  Dworek  at Żelazowa Wola, the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin on 1st March 1810, is on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPiGYtSvCkU My review Variations in B flat major on a theme from Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ (‘Là ci darem la mano’) Op. 2 ‘ Là ci darem la mano’  Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)  (National Trust, Fenton House, London) The youthful  Variations in B-flat major on ‘La ci darem la mano’ from Don Giovanni was composed when Chopin was seventeen. This was originally a brilliant and extremely demanding  style brillante  virtuoso work for piano and orchestra also scored for a solo piano version.  The influence