If you didn't see the flabbergastingly talented Bruce Liu's convincing run to the biggest prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021—or if you did—you're in for a treat as the Canadian virtuoso performs an all-Chopin program at the gorgeous salon named for the Polish composer in Paris's Place Vendôme, where Chopin spent his final hours. Liu takes on a little-heard sparkling Rondo in F, the stormy Ballade No. 2 and triumphant Ballade No. 3, the gravity-defying variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano," the haunting and spectral posthumous Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, the dazzling and irresistible "Black Key" Etude Op. 10, No. 5, and—for a surprise finale—La Campanella, one of the most devilishly demanding etudes by Chopin's colleague and rival, Franz Liszt. Hold on to your hats…

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Bruce Liu appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.