Dudley Moore, was an English actor, comedian and musician. This video clip is from the 1950’s-60s British comedy group “Beyond the Fringe. Dudley Moore plays a very funny but also musically ambitious parody of a Beethoven piano sonata based on very odd yet well-known thematic material, the whistling tune from “Bridge Over the River Kwai”. Want to play it yourself? […]

———————————————————————- EDIT 13 January 2008: The audio files are no longer available for free but will soon be added to the Gold membership resources. ———————————————————————- We would like to wish you Happy Holidays with some of our new recordings for you to enjoy! The seven new recordings below are freely available until 12 January 2009. All tracks recorded on Steinway […]

In December 2007 American pianist Leon Fleisher reached a high point in a remarkable career when he was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, D.C. A child prodigy, Fleisher began studying the piano at age four, gave his first public recital at eight, and at nine was taken under the wing of the legendary Austrian pianist and teacher Artur […]

Alexander Melnikov’s extraordinary 2006 Scriabin recording for Harmonia Mundi tickled our curiosity about what was to come. And our wish came true. Alternating in the roles of soloist and accompanist (with soprano Elena Brilova) , his latest Rachmaninoff recording adds up to one hundred percent presence. Melnikov delivers some of the most intelligently musical and technically impressive Rachmaninoff interpretations available. […]

The Steinway Concept, the Last Son and the Amazing Journey From the Past to the Present and Into the Future Henry Z. Steinway, former president of Steinway & Sons and great grandson of the firm’s founder, died on September 18, 2008 at the age of 93. He was the last Steinway to run the piano-making company his family started in […]