Season 2 Episode 6: CONCERTOS

In Season 2 Episode 6, Ben Laude and Garrick Ohlsson explore Chopin's two large-scale works for piano and orchestra, the Concertos; 2021 International Chopin Competition bronze medalist and Concerto Prize-winner Martín García García returns to the podcast to react to his own performance of Chopin's 2nd Concerto from Warsaw; University of Cambridge Professor John Rink offers a defense of the Chopin Concertos against their critics; and finally, Jed Distler recommends some of the finest recordings of the Concertos from the past century. This podcast is produced in partnership with the Chopin Foundation of the United States, which presents the National Chopin Competition every 5 years. For more, visit chopin.org. Each episode in this series is dedicated to one of Chopin's major compositional genres, and features Garrick as well as special guests approaching the pieces within that genre from a number of different angles – analytically, historically, and pianistically. Follow us at chopinpodcast.com. Created and hosted by Ben Laude.