Classical Piano Music!

Hear Igor Levit’s encore at First Night of the Proms 2017. Liszt’s piano solo version of Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Read more...

For the first time in the history of The Cliburn Competition, semifinalists were required to perform a Mozart concerto. This was not only based on the fact that the Cliburn Foundation’s CEO Jacques Marquis is a classical concerto fan, but rather from the aim of judging how competitors show musical maturity and the delicate world of the Austrian master. Read more...

The final round of quadrennial Van Cliburn Competition kicked off on Monday. The competition has moved into the 21st century. There are simulcasts on the competition’s website and the French classical music website medici.tv. Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe host the festivities. Read more...

Sir Andras Schiff's eloquence as a teacher and profound insights as a thinker about music make his Masterclass sessions irresistible to participants and audiences alike. Through the course of this event an outstanding young musician, chosen by Sir András himself, will explore some of the repertoire featured in the previous evening's concert. Read more...

A new issue of the magazine International Piano is out! Beatrice Rana, one of the brightest lights in a new generation of young stars, speaks to International Piano about her love of Bach’s Goldberg Variations; Bechstein’s new CEO brings energy and investment to the German piano-maker; our repertoire guide to Liszt’s otherworldly Bénédiction on disc; and Maurizio Pollini at 75. Read more...

In this video, eye-tracking glasses are used to show exactly where the gaze of a pianist is directed while playing. A professional concert pianist and his student take turns using the glasses, revealing interesting facts about how experience makes a great difference in terms of effective eye movement, both when playing from memory and from a piano score. Read more...

As part of its special day of programming for International Women’s Day, BBC Radio 3 broadcasted a live performance of the Easter Sonata, a major piano work which until recently had been attributed to Felix Mendelssohn, but is now proved to be the work of his sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Read more...

Chopin inspires musicians to greater artistry and, as Barenboim says in this video, makes them want to sound as if the music is simply emanating from them as light from a candle. In this ballade, Chopin also takes us on a leisurely stroll through his own private musical world. Read more...

2017-08-24'To me, he's like the Mondrian of music. He's taking primary colors and really exploring what that means. At his best, he’s getting to the essence of music'. Read more at nytimes.com

2017-08-23Not made up your next holiday plans yet? Wine tasting, culinary explorations or why not simply piano factory touring around the world? Read more at worldpianonews.com

2017-08-22Swedish composer and ABBA co-founder Benny Andersson presents a solo piano album titled simply ‘Piano’ and will be released September 29 through 'The Yellow Label'. Read more at reuters.com

2017-08-21The color Love Symbol #2 was inspired by Prince’s custom-made Yamaha piano, which was originally scheduled to go on tour with the performer before his untimely passing at the age of 57. Read more at refinery29.com

2017-08-20Bob Perkins calls him 'The Wonderful Wizard of OZcar', Ellington called him 'The Maharaja of the Keyboard', and his friends just said 'O.P.' But let's just call Oscar Peterson one of the greatest jazz pianists ever. Read more at wrti.org

2017-08-19Twenty-five thousand songs recorded onto 78RPM discs in the early 20th century have been released online, for free. They are the first batch of an estimate 400,000-piece virtual record collection to be made available by the Internet Archive. Read more at newsworks.org

2017-08-18What can possibly go wrong? Booze suspects he’s turned millions of pages during his decades-long career. And now he says he doesn’t feel the pressure of being onstage anymore. Read more at ripr.org

2017-08-17'The Festival of Americas is an incredible opportunity to pass on to a younger generation the artistic principles and truth that changed my life and allowed me to become a better musician, pianist, and human being.' Read more at daily-iowan.com