Classical Piano Music!

In this exclusive digital encounter with the praised and enigmatic composer Lowell Liebermann on his premiere recording as a solo pianist on the Steinway & Sons label, Piano Street's Patrick Jovell meets the pianist behind the composer and the composer behind the pianist. Read more...

Piano Day is an annual worldwide event originally founded in 2015 by Nils Frahm and a group of likeminded people and takes place on the 88th day of the year – in 2021 it's the 29th March, explained by the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated. Read more...

Zlata Chochieva is one of the most interesting musicians of her generation, with her breathtaking technique and musicality as well as with her choice of repertoire. "(re)creations", her latest CD, offers an exquisite collection of transcriptions by her great heroes, Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Friedman, and in the title lies the secret of this special art form, so closely related to the piano. Read more...

January 27 2021 was W.A. Mozart's 265th birthday and Salzburg and Austria celebrated this with the world premiere of one of his compositions. At Piano Street we celebrated by releasing the score of the composition, the recently discovered piano piece "Allegro in D". Download it for free and celebrate Mozart yourself by playing the piece! Read more...

In this second part of our interview with Konstantin Scherbakov about his Beethoven celebrations during 2020, we talk about Liszt's Symphony transcriptions and the improvisational aspect in Beethoven's music. Read more...

Keith Jarrett, one of the greatest musicians and profilistic pianists of our time, has recently announced that he will no longer be able to hold up his career as a performer. Now 75, he suffered a pair of draining strokes two years ago that left his left side paralyzed and resulting in an unability to play the piano. The recently released "Budapest Concert" - a return to his grandparents' native country Hungary - is likely one of Jarrett's final recorded public solo piano recitals. Read more...

Now a part of the yearly seasonal signs is NPR's "A Jazz Piano Christmas". With strict distancing protocols at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, New York, the three pianists Sequoia Snyder, Cory Henry and Kenny Barron performed their solo sets. Read more...

We've spent the months leading up to Beethoven's birthday preparing a number of his scores that have been missing from our sheet music library. As part of this week's celebrations, we're happy to announce that our Beethoven section - comprising 130 works - is now complete! Read more...

2021-05-08Pianist Luu Duc Anh engages young artists as well as his students in many diverse arts projects with an aim to develop a real passion for the arts. "I think it is my responsibility to take on greater things, including nurturing and training future talent, organising concerts which help artists show off their talent to the public while narrowing the gap between the audience and academic music." Read more at nhandan.org.vn

2021-05-07Janina Fialkowska is celebrating her 70th birthday. Being the great Arthur Rubinstein's last pupil she plans to release her autobiography this coming September. Arte TV will be broadcasting a new documentary about Rubinstein this summer featuring herself, Daniel Barenboim, Lady Annabelle Weidenfeld a.o. Read more at pianistmagazine.com

2021-05-07Spanish pianist Juan Perez Floristan has won the Rubinstein Piano Competition and joins an impressive group of former laureates including Kirill Gerstein, Igor Levit, Khatia Buniatishvili, Boris Giltburg and Daniil Trifonov. Read more at rhinegold.co.uk

2021-05-06Polina Beymanov is a junior piano and voice major at Whitworth University. She came to the KPBX studio to play and talk about her junior recital program. Read more at spokanepublicradio.org

2021-05-05Pianist Boris Giltburg explains the project he took upon himself - to learn and film all 32 sonatas throughout 2020, Beethoven's 250 anniversary year. Read more at theartsdesk.com

2021-05-04Pianist Miki Sawada travels to all 50 U.S. states with a piano, performing in community gathering spaces, finding common humanity across political and socioeconomic lines, and documenting American life. Read more at sentinelandenterprise.com

FREE livestream: 2021-05-09 10:00:00 GMTFrom Chopin's birthplace Zelazowa Wola. Works by Chopin. Listen at facebook.com

Livestream: 2021-05-14 18:00:00 GMTFrom Dvorak Hall at the Rudolfinum, Prague. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 with The Czech Philharmonic under Manfred Honeck. Listen at dg-premium.com

FREE livestream: 2021-05-16 00:00:00 GMTFrom Chopin's birthplace Zelazowa Wola. Works by Chopin. Listen at facebook.com

Livestream: 2021-05-20 18:30:00 GMTFrom Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko. Listen at liverpoolphil.com

Livestream: 2021-05-23 00:00:00 GMTFrom Washington Performing Arts. Works by Rosowsky, Achron, Bloch, Gnessin and Shostakovich. Listen at washingtonperformingarts.org

FREE livestream: 2021-05-23 10:00:00 GMTFrom Chopin's birthplace Zelazowa Wola. Works by Chopin. Listen at

FREE livestream: 2021-05-24 12:00:00 GMTFrom Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Listen at wigmore-hall.org.uk

FREE livestream: 2021-05-24 18:30:00 GMTFrom Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Granados and Scarlatti. Listen at wigmore-hall.org.uk

Livestream: 2021-05-26 13:05:00 GMTFrom St. John's, London. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 6 & Moscheles Piano Concerto No. 1 with London Mozart Players under Howard Shelley. Listen at londonmozartplayers.com

FREE livestream: 2021-05-28 18:30:00 GMTFrom Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Bach and Beethoven. Listen at wigmore-hall.org.uk

FREE livestream: 2021-06-02 18:30:00 GMTFrom Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Schubert. Listen at wigmore-hall.org.uk

Livestream: 2021-06-24 18:30:00 GMTFrom Southbank Centre, London. Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 with Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Listen at philharmonia.co.uk

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