Finding new life through Chopin

Li Yundi's piano wizardry returns to the concert stage as he embraces his favorite composer. Chen Nan reports.

Over little more than a decade, from 1831 to 1843, Fryderyk Chopin composed four ballades, a musical form he helped create by adapting the narrative sequence to solo piano composition.

The four ballades are considered the finest of Chopin's works and mark the composer's musical evolution after he left his homeland Poland for Paris.