Classical Piano Music!

“The Yellow Label”, Deutsche Grammophon celebrates its 120th anniversary this year with events all around the globe. Today, November 6, pianist Lang Lang performs Mozart’s C Minor Concerto in a live streamed gala concert in the Berlin Philharmonie. Read more...

For anyone seeking the quintessential Chopin, his twenty-one Nocturnes are not only a study of the seal of compositional genius but also defines the complex and refined qualities of the composer’s unique understanding of the piano during a lifetime. Dumont’s clear understanding of simplicity and complexity this AVEA album (2017) will offer an appealing and intriguing experience for any listener. Read more...

Piano Street‘s David Wärn was present in Cremona and interviews will follow on pianostreet.com with, among others, Boris Berman — about the new multimedia edition of his Notes from the Pianist’s Bench — and Jura Margulis, about his collaboration with Steingraeber & Söhne, reinventing the sordino pedal and incorporating it into a modern grand piano. Read more...

Named the Mount Everest of piano concertos, Rachmaninoff’s third has enjoyed an increasing popularity among performers, piano competition contestants and in concert halls during the last twenty years. Also among recording labels where the long list of recordings now is expanded by contributions by a younger generation of top artists. Read more...

n the new edition of the Leeds International Piano Competition we have now enjoyed the diversity of the ten Semi-Finalists. Just in “the middle of the battle” Piano Street’s Patrick Jovell had the chance to ask the competition’s Co-Artistic Director, Adam Gatehouse a few questions. Read more...

Murray Perahia has spent a lot of time with Beethoven throughout his long and successful career. Still, it was only when he passed the 70-year mark that he felt ready to perform and record the “Hammerklavier” — a sonata which is something of the ultimate test of a pianist’s technique, stamina, and musical understanding. Read more...

The event started on 2 September, and thirty pianists aged 18 to 34 have played in the first round. They are playing on pianos from the collections of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (Erards, Pleyels, and Broadwoods from the mid 19th century), as well as originals and copies of period instruments brought in by European restorers and collectors. Read more...

An ardent explorer of contemporary repertoire, Italian pianist Enrico Pompili has put the spotlight on for example Niccolò Castiglioni on the Brilliant label, Alberto Ginastera’s complete piano works, and works by Alberto Bonera. Read more...

2018-11-15"Chaplin's art transcends time. In fact, there are many moments when he looks out of the screen, across time, and looks directly at you and laughs at what has just transpired." Read more at psu.edu

2018-11-13In December 2018 Bonhams in New York is auctioning the sheet music that Glenn Gould used to record the Goldberg Variations. The music contains the pianist's detailed annotations and markings and is expected to fetch between USD 100,000 and 150,000. Read more at nytimes.com

2018-11-14The musical instrument you play, or played as a child, likely has a big impact on how you perceive music every day. Read more at cogneurosociety.org

2018-11-12"I think that in the UK Classical Music is sometimes difficult for people to understand, whereas in many other countries, Russia especially, it is more a part of everyday life. The education system in the UK doesn't really help either." Read more at crosseyedpianist.com

2018-11-11As companies sharing the same "Yamaha" brand, these manufacturers are continuing their joint initiatives for enhancing the value of their brand with "Two Yamahas, One Passion" as the key theme. Read more at yamaha.com

2018-11-10"There's an elitism to classical music that can create a barrier for audiences, and I feel if you're a young audience and you don't feel that barrier, I think there's a a great chance you're going to seek out that music." Read more at telegram.com

2018-11-09"I hope that in some small way, I have contributed to having students and audiences realize that there is an enormous repertoire by women composers from every era. I have tried to program women's piano concertos as much as possible." Read more at icareifyoulisten.com

2018-11-08"The manuscript sent to Schmidt contains six of the eight pieces from the final work and a ninth piece that was dropped at proof stage. Four pages are devoted to what became in the published work the fifth, and longest, piece - In der Nacht - and they reveal in great detail the development of the composer's initial ideas." Read more at antiquestradegazette.com