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The International Chopin Competition in Warsaw - Preliminaries Are On!
The live streamed preliminary round of the 18th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition are on. Until 23 July, the Chamber Hall of the Polish National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw will resound with the music played by 150 young pianists from all over the world. Read more...
"We humans need music" - Martha Argerich at 80 - Ever Totally Irresistible
Noticed everywhere and named one of the greatest pianists of our time, Martha Argerich turned 80 on June 5. To mark the anniversary of the legendary artist, Symphoniker Hamburg presents Martha Argerich Festival 2021 featuring 12 live concerts - live streamed in very high quality video and sound for fans of Martha Argerich around the world. Read more...
Andras Schiff, Brahms and the Question of Tradition
Much attention and mention is given Sir Andras Schiff's latest remarkable recording of both Brahmsâ piano concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Schiff's choice of instrument is a Blüthner grand piano built in Leipzig around 1859, the year in which the first D minor concerto was premiered. Schiff has changed foot in his views on period instruments and the recording can be seen as an ambitious attempt to scrutinize and fully bring out the true characteristics of Brahms' works. Read more...
The World of Piano Competitions - issue 1 2021
As a collaborating partner Piano Street is proud to present the fifth issue of The World of Piano Competitions, a magazine initiated by PIANIST Magazine (Netherlands and Germany) and its Editor-in-Chief Eric Schoones. Here we get a rich insight into the world of international piano competitions through the eyes of its producers and participants. Read more...
Beethoven Celebration in Retrospect
The Beethoven year 2020 was more than just a great anniversary. It also represented the final stage of a mega project started seven years earlier - the Mount Everest of all LvB 250 homage projects. We talk to Nikolas Sideris about how this gigantic and thought-provoking project turned out. Read more...
Stanchinsky is Gramophone's Editor's Choice
The short-lived Russian pianist and composer Alexey Stanchinsky was playing in public by age six and was highly regarded in all the musical activities he undertook. Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski has recorded an album with selected Stanchinsky works for the Ondine label, a recording that was recently selected as Gramophone's Editor's Choice of May 2021. Piano Street talked to Jablonski about the young forgotten composer and his works. Read more...
State Of the Art Innovations - The 102 keys Stephen Paulello Grand Piano
For more than 30 years, Stephen Paulello has systematically studied all the components of the piano, including the instruments of previous eras. His unique grand pianos are constructed to order in his workshop-laboratory 100 kms south of Paris, where there is also a recording studio. Piano Street's Patrick Jovell has interviewed Stephen Paulello about his visions and achievements. Read more...
Lowell Liebermann's Personal Demons
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... More articles >> Top picks: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
2021-07-24
Chopin Competition Contestants Selected 87 pianists qualified to the 18th Chopin Competition in Warsaw. The auditions for Round 1 will commence on 3rd October until the 20th. Read more at nifc.pl
2021-07-23
Iconic Fender Rhodes Continues Rhodes has announced its revival, returning under completely new management and under the name Rhodes Music Group Ltd. Read more at musicradar.com
2021-07-23
Aspen Alumni Reunite in Ravel They were students during the 2013 season, when Irfan won the Aspen festival 2013 Piano Concerto Competition and New was a studying in the Aspen Conducting Academy. Hear them perform the Ravel G major Concerto in our live stream tonight. Read more at aspentimes.com
2021-07-22
Genre Merge in Montreux Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation has teamed up with the New York-based Lang Lang International Music Foundation in order to build bridges using the universal language of music. Read more at globaltimes.cn
2021-07-21
The Longest Piano The nearly 19-foot instrument can be found in the workshop of Adrian Mann, who built it as a teenager. Read more at classicfm.com
2021-07-20
Gadjiev Wins Sydney The 2021 Sydney International Piano Competition was an online version, yet a five-star marathon event for the 32 contestants. Italian-Slovenian Alexander Gadjiev, aged 26, took out first prize. Read more at limelightmagazine.com.au
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FREE livestream: 2021-08-05 12:00:00 GMT
Thomas Ades, Recital From Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Beethoven. Listen at wigmore-hall.org.uk
FREE livestream: 2021-08-12 12:00:00 GMT
Igor Levit, Recital From Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Beethoven. Listen at wigmore-hall.org.uk
FREE livestream: 2021-08-23 12:00:00 GMT
Angela Hewitt, Recital From Wigmore Hall, London. Works by Bach. Listen at wigmore-hall.org.uk
2021-07-25
Severin von Eckardstein:
Schumann - Davidsbündlertänze, Chopin - Polonaise-Fantaisie
 This is the second part of a live recital from Paris recorded in January last year. In the first half, von Eckardstein played Maison dans les dunes by Gabriel Dupont, a cycle he has been promoting very successfully. A selection is included here, but there is also a complete studio recording from 2018. Listen on NML >
2021-07-22
Isata Kanneh-Mason:
Summertime
 Kanneh-Mason's second solo album is centred around Barber's Piano Sonata, and features a rich array of pieces from many of her favourite American classical composers. "I wanted this album to illustrate the diversity of music in America [in Barber's time] and so it was important to me to include the more familiar Gershwin songs, as well as the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor spirituals to which I feel a personal connection.” Listen on NML >
2021-07-20
Marcos Madrigal:
Prokofiev - Sonatas 5 & 7, Visions fugitives
 This is the start of a huge project by Marco Madrigal and the Artalinna label. The aim is to record all Prokofiev's piano music, which is why the album is released as Prokofiev, Vol. 1. Marcos Madrigal thinks it may take something 10 or 15 years: "It's like a dream that one of the top European companies believes in you and trusts you for a project like this… Prokofiev is one of our gods in classical music. I always dreamed of doing this." Listen on NML >
2021-07-18
Alain Planès:
Chopin - Complete Nocturnes
 Chopin's appreciation for the Pleyel sonority is well documented. For this recording of the complete Chopin Nocturnes, Alain Planès has chosen the period instrument he thinks best suited for the repertoire - a Pleyel built in the 1840s, when many of these masterpieces were composed. Listen on NML >
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