For the next two weekends, every aspect of the composer Frédéric Chopin will be examined at the annual Bard Music Festival, up the Hudson. It has WNYC's Sara Fishko considering the sources of that composer's inspiration, in this edition of Fishko Files.

"Chopin and His World" opens tomorrow at Bard. For more details, visit their website.

Jan Lisiecki's Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra is available on Amazon.

Featured Music:

Frédéric Chopin
Étude Op. 10, No. 5 in G flat minor
Jan Lisiecki, piano
 
Johann Sebastian Bach
Capriccio in B flat major, BWV 992 – III: Adagissimo
Wilhelm Kempff, piano (1976)
 
Gaetano Donizetti
Al Dolce Guidami (from “Anna Bolena”)
Maria Callas
Conducted by Nicola Rescigno
 
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne Op. 15, No. 1 in F major
Maria João Pires, piano
 
Vincenzo Bellini
Casta Diva (from “Norma”)
Renée Fleming
Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
 
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka Op. 33, No. 2 in D major
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
 
Frédéric Chopin
Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Op. 2 – Var. I
Jan Lisiecki, piano
 
Frédéric Chopin
Étude Op. 10, No. 11 in E flat major
Jan Lisiecki, piano