Professor Edward Auer and the Shanghai Quartet, with help from bassist Peter Lloyd, have completed their recording of two Chopin piano concertos.
“For the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth in 2010, I expanded my yearly Indiana University Piano Workshop and invited the Shanghai String Quartet to IU. They performed two concerts, in which I appeared playing Chopin’s two piano concertos. The Quartet’s performing schedule was so packed that we had to do virtually all our rehearsing during a couple of weekend visits in the preceding months.”…
“The practice of playing concertos with string quartet, especially in the 19th century, was well established. I owe my awareness of this to the research to Dr. Halina Goldberg, a Chopin scholar on our faculty.”…
