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Dear Glenn – Can Yamaha Bring Gould’s Genius Back to Life?
Yamaha’s ongoing project to develop a piano playing Artificial Intelligence system has been dubbed “Dear Glenn”, as a tribute to Glenn Gould. The project is “inspired by his unique creative style and launched to explore the future of music through the use of artificial intelligence.” Read more...
Piano Street’s Top Picks of 2019
We wish you a Happy New Year with a list of highly recommended reading from Piano Street. These are the 15 most read, discussed or shared articles of 2019. Read more...
Sleigh Ride – A Holiday Greeting on 440 Keys
Enjoy The Five Brown’s new rendition of Leroy Anderson’s joyful season’s celebration wondrously arranged for five pianos! Read more...
A Jazz Piano Christmas 2019
NPR’s traditional season’s celebration ”A Piano Jazz Christmas”, was recorded live from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and offers a joyful mix of musical Christmas glitter from both the East and the West Coast of the United States. Read more...
200+ Pieces Added to Piano Street’s Sheet Music Library
There is no end to our efforts to render the Piano Street sheet music library more and more complete. In recent months, we’ve added a large number of pieces by some of the greatest composers – Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and Grieg. Read more...
Nelson Goerner – Exploring the depths
Nelson Goerner is a sort of ‘rare bird’ on the concert platform. Each of his concerts is a unique experience. His most recent CDs featuring major works by Brahms, Godowsky and Paderewski are simply breathtaking. Eric Schoones met him in Groningen to discuss his recordings, his views on his artistry and about Maria Tipo, with whom he studied. Read more...
Resonance Piano – Recreating Piano Sound
The 98 kilograms Resonance Piano is not an instrument in the traditional sense, but a grand piano designed soundboard functioning as a digital piano’s ”amplifier”. Its creators, the Italian company Ciresa, have played an important role as manufacturers of loudspeakers and piano soundboards since the 1970s – their clients include giants like Bechstein, Blüthner, Förster, and Fazioli. Read more...
The Piano Experience Fest
Now an established and important annual event, Cremona Musica once again opened its doors and welcomed a huge number of visitors to experience an extraordinary 180 events program of concerts, lectures, manufacturers exhibits, round-table discussions along with lovely touristic venues in beautiful Cremona – city of violins. Read more... More articles >> Top picks: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
2020-01-20
Grand Pianos as Art The two dozen "prepared pianos" were inspired by a concept coined by the avant-garde US composer John Cage, who would place objects on or between the strings. Read more at artnet.com
2020-01-19
The Cybertruck of Grand Pianos Through the Roland Digital Piano Design Awards, entrants were asked to design their ultimate "Concert Grand Piano" and Jong Chan Kim's "Facet Grand Piano" was awarded the Grand Prize. Read more at theverge.com
2020-01-18
Coupling Debussy and Rameau Vikingur Olafsson was recently named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards. His new album
on DG will be released this coming March. Read more at pianistmagazine.com
2020-01-17
Activist and Beethoven Prize Winner Awarded this year's International Beethoven Prize, Igor Levit is among the world's most renowned pianists and an impassioned advocate on Twitter for climate action and against rightist extremism. Read more at dw.com
2020-01-16
Immortal Piano Sale "The Immortal Piano" is up for sale on eBay with a price of USD 2 million. The unique instrument has also been called "The Siena Piano", "The King’s Piano" and "The Harp of David Piano". Read more at pianistmagazine.com
2020-01-15
What About Moores' Piano Sound? 500 students, 300-plus concerts and events annually including four full-length operas does require intensive care and service for the school's pianos. Read more at thedailycougar.com
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2020-01-17
Işıl Bengi:
Hikaye
 Hikaye means story in Turkish, and with this album, Isil Bengi tells the story of her own origins. She was born into a family whose origins and places of residence have been quite varied, including Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece, Switzerland, Japan, and Armenia. Her idea for this project was to create a “family reunion in sound”, by choosing music and composers from their various countries of residence. Listen on NML >
2020-01-14
Martina Filjak:
Light and Darkness
 Martina Filjak came to international attention by winning 1st prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2009. Her selection of Liszt pieces reveals the composer’s multifaceted personality, contrasting light with darkness, virtuosity with stillness, devout religious feelings with worldly pomp and dazzling virtuoso fireworks. Listen on NML >
2020-01-12
Konstantin Scherbakov:
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
 Konstantin Scherbakov is a veteran of over forty CD recordings. He is renowned as a champion of lesser-known composers and works, but has also had a career-defining relationship with Beethoven - his complete cycle of Liszt’s piano transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies on 5 CDs (1998-2004) was a great success. In 2020 he performs and records the complete Beethoven sonatas. Listen on NML >
2020-01-11
Alessandro Taverna:
Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions
 During its peak popularity in the 19th century, the art of piano transcription provided access to the riches of the symphonic and operatic repertoire in homes and small concert halls. Alessandro Taverna plays transcriptions spanning two centuries from Bach to Gershwin, celebrating an art that made great music available to the widest audience in the era before audio recording and radio. Listen on NML >
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