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Boris Giltburg is set for a remarkable season across Germany, performing with top orchestras in Essen, Dresden, Frankfurt, and Leipzig. In this wide-ranging interview with Eric Schoones, the pianist reflects on his deep connection to Rachmaninoff, the emotional depths of Beethoven, and his upcoming exploration of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier—a new “final frontier” in his artistic journey. Read more
Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more
Warsaw is once again gearing up for one of its annual musical highlights. The 21st edition of the Chopin and His Europe Festival kicked off on 20 August and runs until 6 September, packing in 29 concerts featuring a mix of world-renowned soloists, orchestras, and chamber ensembles. Read more
For piano lovers, the Verbier Festival 2025 again shaped up to be a dream come true. This summer, the festival was rolling out one of its most interesting piano lineups yet, blending household names, rising stars, and even a little jazz for good measure. This compilation video provides a captivating glimpse into the festival’s diverse performances, featuring 20 minutes of piano excellence. Read more
The piano world is buzzing with excitement this summer. As we predicted, recent media channels have been dominated by news and updates from three of the world’s most prestigious piano competitions: Chopin, Cliburn, and Queen Elisabeth. In its recent issue, the magazine “The World of Piano Competitions” dedicated a special feature to the Queen Elisabeth Competition Read more
Piano News Flash
2025-11-23
A gifted young pianist, Josima Feldschuh wrote and performed music in the Warsaw Ghetto before dying in 1943 at 13. Her surviving manuscripts inspired Non Fiction, a new 40-minute piano concerto by Polish composer Hania Rani.
Read at ft.com
Reviving the Music of a WW2 Prodigy
A gifted young pianist, Josima Feldschuh wrote and performed music in the Warsaw Ghetto before dying in 1943 at 13. Her surviving manuscripts inspired Non Fiction, a new 40-minute piano concerto by Polish composer Hania Rani.
Read at ft.com
2025-11-22
Pianist and UMKC professor Sean Chen performs Brahms’s Four Ballades and his arrangement of Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in a Kansas Public Radio program, highlighting his work as both performer and arranger.
Read at kansaspublicradio.org
Brahms and Dukas with Chen
Pianist and UMKC professor Sean Chen performs Brahms’s Four Ballades and his arrangement of Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in a Kansas Public Radio program, highlighting his work as both performer and arranger.
Read at kansaspublicradio.org
2025-11-21
Nearly 200 pianists will perform in an 11-hour relay at Sunderland’s Fire Station on 7 December 2025, as Keys of the City attempts to surpass Hong Kong’s recent record of 169 consecutive performers.
Read at sunderlandmagazine.com
A Guinness World Record Piano Relay
Nearly 200 pianists will perform in an 11-hour relay at Sunderland’s Fire Station on 7 December 2025, as Keys of the City attempts to surpass Hong Kong’s recent record of 169 consecutive performers.
Read at sunderlandmagazine.com
2025-11-20
When two singular artists meet, their contrasting energies spark fresh life in familiar music; so it was as Argerich’s fire and Pires' lyricism fused in Geneva, turning Mozart’s elegance into something deeply human and moving.
Read at arte.tv
In Concert: Argerich, Pires and Mozart
When two singular artists meet, their contrasting energies spark fresh life in familiar music; so it was as Argerich’s fire and Pires' lyricism fused in Geneva, turning Mozart’s elegance into something deeply human and moving.
Read at arte.tv
2025-11-19
In Playing with Fire at the Musée de la musique, Yuja Wang recites Verlaine hourly - and in heels - while audiences, wearing VR headsets, appear as knitted creatures moving around an empty space anchored by a solitary Steinway Spirio piano.
Read at xrmust.com
Yuja's VR Experiment
In Playing with Fire at the Musée de la musique, Yuja Wang recites Verlaine hourly - and in heels - while audiences, wearing VR headsets, appear as knitted creatures moving around an empty space anchored by a solitary Steinway Spirio piano.
Read at xrmust.com
2025-11-18
Lisiecki discusses the discipline behind his poise, the psychology of performance, and the architectural clarity guiding his choices. He says programming is as crucial as playing, building a seamless journey around Chopin’s Op. 28 core with preludes by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen, Górecki, and Szymanowski.
Read at earrelevant.net
Jan Lisiecki in Interview
Lisiecki discusses the discipline behind his poise, the psychology of performance, and the architectural clarity guiding his choices. He says programming is as crucial as playing, building a seamless journey around Chopin’s Op. 28 core with preludes by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen, Górecki, and Szymanowski.
Read at earrelevant.net
2025-11-17
Marguerite Long’s playing shimmered like a sunlit silver thread while Alfred Cortot erupted through Liszt with volcanic force. Their stark contrast embodied not just stylistic divergence but a cultural struggle amid nineteenth-century music’s Germanic traditions.
Read at interlude.hk
The French Piano Clash
Marguerite Long’s playing shimmered like a sunlit silver thread while Alfred Cortot erupted through Liszt with volcanic force. Their stark contrast embodied not just stylistic divergence but a cultural struggle amid nineteenth-century music’s Germanic traditions.
Read at interlude.hk
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Elisabeth Brauss, Recital
From Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Grieg, Abrahamsen, Liszt and Beethoven.
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Latest Piano Albums
2025-11-24
David Fray:
David Fray created the show L’Enfant oublié (The Forgotten Child, 2023) with his wife, the actress and director Chiara Muti. Chiara recites her own text while David plays a selection of short 18th-century pieces at the piano. The selection of pieces on this new album flows partly from this repertoire and is a kind of personal reimagining of the show.
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David Fray:
Baroque Encores
David Fray created the show L’Enfant oublié (The Forgotten Child, 2023) with his wife, the actress and director Chiara Muti. Chiara recites her own text while David plays a selection of short 18th-century pieces at the piano. The selection of pieces on this new album flows partly from this repertoire and is a kind of personal reimagining of the show.
Listen on NML >
2025-11-21
Nathalia Milstein:
Tchaikovsky was a great admirer of Robert Schumann. "At soirées among friends at Peterhof, Tchaikovsky sat at the piano and invariably played Schumann," writes Nathalia Milstein in the liner notes to her new album, which explores the connections between the two composers by juxtaposing Tchaikovsky's Six Pieces op. 19 with Schumann's great Fantasy op. 17.
Listen on NML >
Nathalia Milstein:
Alla Schumann
Tchaikovsky was a great admirer of Robert Schumann. "At soirées among friends at Peterhof, Tchaikovsky sat at the piano and invariably played Schumann," writes Nathalia Milstein in the liner notes to her new album, which explores the connections between the two composers by juxtaposing Tchaikovsky's Six Pieces op. 19 with Schumann's great Fantasy op. 17.
Listen on NML >
2025-11-19
Saskia Giorgini:
Saskia Giorgini moves between Mozart's serene Concerto No. 12 and the circus acrobatics of Shostakovich’s concerto for Piano, trumpet, and string orchestra, ending in tragedy with Shostakovich's second Piano Sonata; music written “with his own blood”. Giorgini sees music as the most powerful means of communication, something that can nurture our empathy — "and perhaps make us feel less alone."
Listen on NML >
Saskia Giorgini:
Mozart & Shostakovich
Saskia Giorgini moves between Mozart's serene Concerto No. 12 and the circus acrobatics of Shostakovich’s concerto for Piano, trumpet, and string orchestra, ending in tragedy with Shostakovich's second Piano Sonata; music written “with his own blood”. Giorgini sees music as the most powerful means of communication, something that can nurture our empathy — "and perhaps make us feel less alone."
Listen on NML >
2025-11-15
Louis Lortie:
The eighth instalment of Louis Lortie's Chopin survey includes some rare chamber music, which Lortie plays together with Truls Mørk, cello. The recording covers the full chronological expanse of Chopin’s oeuvre, including both the Rondo in C minor, Op 1 – a teenage composition from Warsaw – and the composer's last published piece: the remarkable Sonata for Piano and Violoncello, Op. 65.
Listen on NML >
Louis Lortie:
Chopin – Piano Works, Vol. 8
The eighth instalment of Louis Lortie's Chopin survey includes some rare chamber music, which Lortie plays together with Truls Mørk, cello. The recording covers the full chronological expanse of Chopin’s oeuvre, including both the Rondo in C minor, Op 1 – a teenage composition from Warsaw – and the composer's last published piece: the remarkable Sonata for Piano and Violoncello, Op. 65.
Listen on NML >
Piano Street Site Updates
29 March 2025:
piano Street celebrate the 10th anniversary of World Piano Day.
17 November 2023:
The sheet music library now contains the complete solo keyboard pieces by J. S. Bach.
12 September 2023:
Rachmaninoff's complete piano works are now available in our sheet music library.
26 January 2023:
The complete piano works of 12 composers are now available in our sheet music library.
1 February 2022:
We celebrate 20 years online with an updated webdesign of pianostreet.com and a special bonus package for all our memebers!
10 January 2022:
Pages about composer have a new design with additional content and the best solo piano pieces listed separately for composers such as Beethoven and Chopin.
26 November 2021:
A new issue of the magazine about the world of piano competitions is available for free download at Piano Street.
8 October 2021:
Piano Street's multimedia tool for watching the Chopin Competition has been updated.
24 September 2021:
Piano Street participated in the annual Media Lounge of Cremona Musica.
15 January 2021:
Urtext editions of Debussy Clair de lune, Chopin Prelude in E minor and Major Piano Scales are now available to download for free at Piano Street.
24 October 2020:
New pieces by Bach and Mozart with piano practice tips have been added to the line of Instructive Editions.
10 April 2018:
Visit Piano Street at the Frankfurt Music Expo.
piano Street celebrate the 10th anniversary of World Piano Day.
17 November 2023:
The sheet music library now contains the complete solo keyboard pieces by J. S. Bach.
12 September 2023:
Rachmaninoff's complete piano works are now available in our sheet music library.
26 January 2023:
The complete piano works of 12 composers are now available in our sheet music library.
1 February 2022:
We celebrate 20 years online with an updated webdesign of pianostreet.com and a special bonus package for all our memebers!
10 January 2022:
Pages about composer have a new design with additional content and the best solo piano pieces listed separately for composers such as Beethoven and Chopin.
26 November 2021:
A new issue of the magazine about the world of piano competitions is available for free download at Piano Street.
8 October 2021:
Piano Street's multimedia tool for watching the Chopin Competition has been updated.
24 September 2021:
Piano Street participated in the annual Media Lounge of Cremona Musica.
15 January 2021:
Urtext editions of Debussy Clair de lune, Chopin Prelude in E minor and Major Piano Scales are now available to download for free at Piano Street.
24 October 2020:
New pieces by Bach and Mozart with piano practice tips have been added to the line of Instructive Editions.
10 April 2018:
Visit Piano Street at the Frankfurt Music Expo.