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The Jurmala Festival – First Edition
The first edition of the Riga Jurmala Festival featured four weekends throughout July, August and September with an impressive lineup of world-famous pianists, including Rudolf Buchbinder, Yuja Wang, Seong-Jin Cho, Lukas Geniušas, Jan Lisiecki, Denis Kozhukhin, The Osokins and Lucas Debargue. Verbier Festival wizard Martin T:son Engstroem was headhunted to create the new prestigious Latvian music festival. Read more...
World's largest piano unveiled this week!
Back in 1987, the German-Latvian piano maker David Klavins introduced the world's largest upright piano; Model 370, which is two floors high. On display to the public for the first time on Friday this week, the even bigger Model 470i has already created a buzz among piano enthusiasts. Piano Street's Patrick Jovell had a talk with David Klavins about his latest innovations. Read more...
Success, or Just a Sensation? Stuart Isacoff on Van Cliburn’s Moscow Win — 60 Years On
Piano Street has met the author of When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn’s Cold War Triumph and Its Aftermath, a personal and moving book presenting a sympathetic but honest account of the life of the legendary American pianist. Read more...
Alexandre Kantorow Wins Tchaikovsky Competition
The 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition concluded at night on June 27. In the piano category the Gold Medal went to the French pianist Alexandre Kantorow and an unexpected special prize was awarded to Chinese pianist Tianxu An. Read more...
What’s Inside Steinway’s Secret Vault?
To get inside Steinways’s new secret addition to their New York Factory, you must be invited. “The Vault” has over $3 million in exotic veneers, waiting for the right buyer at the right time. Read more...
Alexander Gadjiev – To Save the World
Our meeting took place in Krefeld, at Kawai – the Japanese make of piano with which Alexander Gadjiev has become so familiar since his success at the Hamamatsu competition. Now his career is really taking off in Europe too: Gadjiev is a BBC New Generation Artist until the end of 2021 and is also one of the 25 chosen contestants at the upcoming 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition, 17-29 June in Moscow. Read more...
Through Nupen’s Eyes: Young Legends Play Mozart
On 11 March 1966, two great young pianists appeared together in public for the first time: Daniel Barenboim and Vladimir Ashkenazy played Mozart's Concerto for two pianos at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. Looking in the back mirror we realize the unique importance of this performance hi-lighting the two young pianists in the middle of building world famous careers. Read more...
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... More articles >> Top picks: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
2019-09-18
Zhang In Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev "This is exactly 10 years after 2009, when I won the Cliburn. There's a personal feeling to this piece that I've been performing ever since." Read more at capradio.org
2019-09-17
In a Family of Musicians "I am always attracted first and foremost to how it sounds and to how it makes me feel." She says she finds herself especially drawn to the "fiery passion" of Schumann's Scherzo No. 2. Read more at cpr.org
2019-09-16
DG Signs O'Halloran Deutsche Grammophon have announced the signing of Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning, pianist and composer Dustin O'Halloran. Read more at billboard.com
2019-09-15
A Touring Pianist "Pianists are like athletes - there are some things that are built into the body, things that have to be done so the nerves and muscles react the right way." Read more at odt.co.nz
2019-09-14
Skillful Piano Fingering? "Using this system, expert pianists were found to have altered mechanisms by which tactile and proprioceptive sensation suppress the activity of the primary motor cortex in a specialized manner (somatosensory-motor integration)." Read more at medicalxpress.com
2019-09-13
The Irish Schumann Piano "In any case, it remained in their house in Convoy for well over a century. But it has since passed through other hands and, alas, is currently in renewed exile, on loan to a conservatoire in the UK." Read more at irishtimes.com
2019-09-13
Kid's Starting on Piano? "Before a child can actually read words, it's harder to teach them to read music," says Linda Filcek, a piano teacher in Mattawan, Michigan. "So I encourage parents to wait until their child is a reader before they start piano lessons." Read more at lifehacker.com
2019-09-12
The Rachmaninov Method "Rachmaninov was practising Chopin's Etude in thirds, but at such a snail's pace that it took me a while to recognise it because so much time elapsed between each finger stroke at the next." Read more at irishtimes.com
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2019-09-13
Igor Levit:
Beethoven - Complete Sonatas
 Igor Levit has now completed the recording of all 32 sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven, which he began in 2013. “For me, this recording is a conclusion of my past fifteen years. The literally life-changing encounter with the Diabelli Variations at the age of 17, which is effectively still ongoing, the daily engagement with Beethoven's sonatas, with Beethoven as a person, with myself, with the world in which I live - all that has also led to this recording.” Listen on NML >
2019-09-13
Jan Lisiecki:
Beethoven - Complete Concertos
 After his recent album “Mendelssohn”, released in February, Lisiecki now quickly moves on to the five Beethoven concertos – once again in the double role as soloist and conductor, accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Listen on NML >
2019-09-13
Dong-Hyek Lim/Martha Argerich:
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto 2/Symphonic Dances
 This album shows two very different sides of Rachmaninov. Dong-Hyek Lim takes the role of soloist in the hyper-romantic Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, and of duo partner to his mentor, Martha Argerich, in the composer’s final major work, the enthralling and enigmatic Symphonic Dances. Listen on NML >
2019-09-13
Andrew Tyson:
Landscapes
 Andrew Tyson, winner of the Géza Anda Competition in 2015, has conceived a new tailor-made programme focusing on landscapes - mostly Spanish ones, from Federico Mompou’s Paisajes to Albéniz Iberia, but we are also taken on a visit to the Austrian countryside in the form of Schuberts Sonata D. 664. Listen on NML >
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