Podcast: Play in new window
Today from Warsaw, we discussed the first night of the finals of the competition, during which 10 finalists each perform one of Chopin’s concertos with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
And we hear music by audience favorite Austrian Ingold Wunder, from the third round.
Photo by David Polk: About 200,000 daily “Chopin Express” official newsletters were distributed throughout Warsaw during the competition in an unprecedented attempt to make the competition as accessible as possible. Here, a woman picks one up in Warsaw’s old Castle Square.