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
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
