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German Piano Award 2019
Frankfurt Musikmesse kicked off its 2019 edition by presenting the 9th edition of The International German Piano Award’s Grand-Prix-Final Concerts. This year’s winner in the finals at Alte Oper Frankfurt on March 31 was South Korean pianist Jeung Beum Sohn. Read more...
Build a Paper Piano with Nintendo Labo!
Not enough space for a piano? A foldable paper piano may solve that particular problem but don’t expect to play your favourite piano pieces on it. Read more...
Keep Track of the Latest Piano Albums with Piano Street
Piano Street’s mission is to promote classical piano music, and we are always looking for new ways to enable you to listen, learn, and play. There’s no question that piano playing is thriving all over the world, and on the World Wide Web – just look at the flood of new recordings, videos, and streamed concerts constantly available just a few clicks away. Read more...
Chopin and His Europe
The whole piano world is teaming up for the 18th International Chopin Competition to be held in Warsaw, 2 to 23 October 2020. Stanislaw Leszczynski of The Chopin Institute talked to Piano Street’s Patrick Jovell at the Philharmonie in Warsaw. Read more...
Claire Huangci's Complete Perspective: The Rachmaninoff Preludes
Pianist Claire Huangci, winner of the Geza Anda Competition 2018, just played in New York celebrating the launch of her new Rachmaninoff Preludes album on Berlin Classics. Like her complete Chopin Nocturnes album before that – for the same label – the complete Rachmaninoff 24 Preludes has been received with great acclaim internationally. Piano Street asked the ever touring pianist a few questions about her latest release. Read more...
Digital Piano? Oh No – 100% Analogue!
What happens when innovative acoustical ideas come across a vintage broken piano? Well, Ukrainian musicians transformed it into a unique and completely analog hybrid of 20 different instruments that are each connected and controlled by the piano keys. Read more...
Igor Levit’s Eternal Transcendence: “Life”
Igor Levit’s acclaimed album “Life” has attracted a lot of attention and its selected works have also been included in Levit’s recent recital programs worldwide. This is a profound, versatile and firm reaction to the death and loss of his best friend reflecting inner calm elaborating on an existential level. Read more...
Piano Street’s Top Picks of 2018
We start the new year with a list of highly recommended reading from Piano Street. These are the 12 most read, discussed or shared articles of 2018. Read more... More articles >> Top picks: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
2019-05-25
All Beethoven Concerti in Los Angeles Each pianist spoke passionately about the humanity and emotion embedded in Beethoven's harmonic impulses. Each mentioned the remarkable stylistic transformation from Classicism to Romanticism represented across these works. Read more at latimes.com
2019-05-24
A Rachmaninov List How many piano works will show on a "Rachmaninov: Ten Best Works List"?
See and listen to udiscovermusic's choices. Read more at udiscovermusic.com
2019-05-26
What's New in The Leeds? The competition has secured a partnership project aiming to bring the community closer to their collection of historic sheet music. They are also announcing "Skylar's Missing Note", a touring music and theatre project that will reach over 1,500 primary school children in Leeds. Read more at leedspiano.com
2019-05-24
Pianomania in China "Eager to cash in, western classical music institutions are piling into China. Deutsche Grammophon recently signed Yu Long — the music director of the Shanghai Symphony, the China Philharmonic and the Guangzhou Symphony orchestras, commonly known as "China's Karajan" - and launched its 120th anniversary celebrations not in Germany but in China. Later this year, the Juilliard School will open its first overseas campus in Tianjin." Read more at ft.com
2019-05-23
The Amazing 150K Prize Winner Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun won the first China International Music Competition, with a top prize of US $150,000. He won over the jury with his performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Read more at rhinegold.co.uk
2019-05-22
Pianist Garbae Raising Awareness Calenna Garbae received the Argentine "Estrella de Mar Award" for the best show for the 2017 season ("Calenna Clasica Liggera"). She was the first transsexual woman to receive the award in this field. Garbae was selected among the 60 distinguished Argentines of 2018 by the news portal Infobae. Read more at hrc.org
2019-05-21
Pianist Avery Gagliano on WRTI Hear Curtis Institute's student Avery Gagliano play Haydn, Liszt and Schumann
on Friday, May 24th at 12:10 PM. Read more at wrti.org
2019-05-20
Sudbin On Late Beethoven "I think it is fairly common to include the last three sonatas together, so hopefully this offers something different. Besides, they are wonderful pieces; they offer so much variety, both musically and in their form; there is so much colour and unusual material, that I think they offer a great balance to the other two quite substantial and serious works on this recording." Read more at prestomusic.com
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2019-05-17
Anna Shelest:
Donna Voce
 A champion of esoteric repertoire, Anna Shelest’s ongoing project recording Anton Rubinstein’s complete works for piano and orchestra has attracted great interest. On this album she explores piano music by women spanning three centuries, from Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel to Chiayu Hsu. Listen on NML >
2019-05-17
Ekaterina Derzhavina:
Haydn - Variations & Pieces
 Ekaterina Derzhavina is a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, and a performer with a world-wide performing schedule. Her complete recording of Haydn’s piano sonatas was nominated for an International Classical Music Award. With this album she adds the complete Variations and other piano pieces to her Haydn survey. Listen on NML >
2019-05-17
Duo Ayrton-Glüxam:
Four Hands on Mozart
 Patrick Ayrton and Wolfgang Glüxam have both studied harpsichord with the legendary Ton Koopman in Amsterdam. The CD booklet states: Cars with combustion engines or electric cars?... Difficult to answer. Choosing between piano or harpsichord with Mozart’s music the answer is clear.” Judge for yourself! Listen on NML >
2019-05-10
Ragna Schirmer:
Madame Schumann
 Ragna Schirmer has devoted this album to one of the great artists of the 19th century, recording two of Clara Schumann’s original concert programmes - a chamber music programme, and a solo recital played on Clara’s tour to England, where she was announced as “Madame Schumann”. Listen on NML >
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