Explore & Listen with Full-Track Streaming
Deutsche Grammophon & Decca celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth together with a revolutionary new site that seeks to open up to you the variety of interpretations of Chopin's composititions that Deutsche Grammophon and Decca artists over the years have recorded.
View our new releases for Chopin year 2010 in the section "Chopin Year Albums." Alternatively discover Chopin's repertoire piece by piece. Use the "Explore & Listen" section to try out different ways of discovering Chopin's works.
You will be astounded how our artists' recordings of these works vary in interpretation. So take advantage of our full-track streaming to listen in. You will need to register to do this.
Take your time. Make sure to use our playlists to park items for listening to again on a later visit. Once you have found what you like, look-up the albums that your tracks appear on or buy the tracks for 99 cents each from the DG Web Shop.
Participate
Join us in building out this site with your recommendations. Profit from other users' recommendations and help others with yours. Rate the recordings and create playlists under different themes.
Chopin Video Contest
Do you play Chopin yourself? Have some fun with us in a special video contest sponsored by Alice Sara Ott, Deutsche Grammophon's recently signed artist. Make a video of yourself (and friends) playing any work by Chopin (make sure the video shows your hands while you are playing,) and win a trip to Alice Sara Ott's concert in Leipzig, Germany on November 14th, 2010. You will also get to meet her backstage. All traveling expenses will be paid.
Video contest
