Chopin’s Warsaw featured in Classical Destinations: The Great Composers series

The great cities and towns of Europe and the UK, form the backdrops for the stories of the world’s greatest classical composers. This unique TV series showcases the most compressive list of classical composers ever seen on TV. In one of the episodes we travel to Warsaw – city of Fryderyk Chopin, where we delve into composer’s times, life and extraordinary work.

Where does this great music come from? Deep inside the composer, of course, but the places where the composer were born, where they lived and worked have a huge influence on their music. The greatest names of classical music made their lives and wrote their music in some of the most fascinating places on earth.

’Classical Destinations: The Great Composers’ series will take you there, to see the cities, to hear the sounds, and to meet the real people and stories behind the music which has shaped our world. This first series introduces us to six brilliant musical minds and the places they called home. Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fryderyk Chopin and Edvard Greig. We travel to some of the most stunning global destinations, steeped in rich history and engaging stories and of course the much-loved music that was birthed there. Where we delve into the lives and times of these composers. 

Warsaw was the city at the heart of Fryderyk Chopin’s world: he was one of the first great piano virtuosos, and his piano music helped usher in a new romantic spirit across all the arts. Though he appreciated the sophisticated life of Paris, the music, fierce and passionate, that grew out his love of his native land shook his audiences to the core. The episode offers a front row seat to intimate performances of many of Chopin’s most loved piano works.

We are very pleased that we could add a little contribute to the creation of this episode. Please see the Chopin’s episode preview: