Chopin Concert Tickets at the Fryderyk Concert Hall Warsaw

The Fryderyk Concert Hall

The Fryderyk Concert Hall is a small venue in Warsaw Old Town designed for one purpose: chamber recitals of Chopin's music. Its interior recalls the salons of the composer's era, with neoclassical lines, plaster stucco, crystal chandeliers and soft lighting, so the audience feels it has stepped into a nineteenth-century drawing room rather than a large concert hall.

Because the room is intimate, every seat is close to the stage, and the VIP rows from one to three put you within a few metres of the keyboard, where you can watch the pianist's hands. In the evening concerts the hall is lit by candlelight, which adds warmth to the music. For anyone searching for a Chopin concert in Warsaw, it is one of the most atmospheric settings in the city.

The recital: Chopin's music on a concert grand

Each concert lasts about an hour and is divided into two parts with a short interval. The programme draws on the full range of Chopin's piano writing: proud polonaises that echo Polish court dances, lively mazurkas rooted in village folk music, dreamy nocturnes, waltzes and dramatic études such as the Revolutionary Étude and the Heroic Polonaise.

The performers are chosen from among winners of international piano competitions, professors and graduates of leading music academies, and each brings a personal touch to the interpretation. The pianist often introduces the pieces, which helps newcomers to classical music. After the concert you can meet the artist, a rare chance at a recital of this quality, and our Chopin concert tickets in Warsaw include this meeting.

Warsaw Old Town around the hall

Warsaw Old Town was founded in the thirteenth century and almost entirely destroyed in 1944. After the war it was rebuilt with remarkable care, using old drawings, photographs and eighteenth-century paintings of the city, and in 1980 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as an outstanding example of reconstruction. Its Market Square, ringed by colourful merchants' houses, has the bronze Mermaid of Warsaw at its centre.

The hall stands a few minutes' walk from Castle Square and the Royal Castle, so the concert fits easily into an evening in the Old Town. Before the 19:00 recital you can stroll the city walls and the Barbican; after the late concert the illuminated streets are at their most beautiful. Among the evening things to do in Warsaw, this pairing of music and old streets is hard to beat.

Chopin's Warsaw along the Royal Route

Chopin was born in 1810 in a village west of Warsaw and grew up in the city, where he studied and gave his first concerts before leaving for good at the age of twenty. His Warsaw lies mostly along the Royal Route, the elegant avenue of Krakowskie Przedmieście that runs south from Castle Square past palaces, churches and the university.

In the Holy Cross Church on this street, a pillar holds an urn with the composer's heart, brought back to Poland at his own wish. Benches along the route play short pieces of his music at the touch of a button. Walking this stretch before or after the concert, only a few minutes from the hall, gives the evening a real sense of place.