Distinguished pianist and pedagogue Aiko Onishi sums up her wide-ranging knowledge about the piano and music-making in Piansim. What other source describes the different physical gestures required to produce so many different kinds of sound? — not just singing tones, but also, for example, harmonious tones, colorless tones, rich chordal tones, and bell-like tones. With imaginative metaphors and similes, Ms. […]

Hatchlands in the county of Surrey, hidden inside an 18th-century mansion which stands amid landscaped gardens and bluebell woods is a pianist’s treasure trove. A Pleyel piano owned by Chopin, a Broadwood played and autographed by Elgar, a Ducci upright borrowed by Liszt for his Italian travels, and even an Erard made for Queen Marie-Antoinette sit side by side in […]

Acclaimed young pianist Khatia Buniatishvili’s debut album for Sony Classical is devoted to Franz Liszt. Although she sees herself as belonging truly to the 21st century, like the Romantics, she looks for greatness in small things, for the universal in the individual. And in the music of Liszt, she seeks and finds her idea of musical completeness and pianistic perfection. […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during April 2011. Many Pianists Awarded – BBC Music Magazine Awards 2011 Listen to the 2011 BBC Classical Music Award Winners Montero on Breathing Oxygene into Classical Music Pianist Gil Kalish talks with George Crumb Rachmaninov on the art of recording (from 1931) Rachmaninov’s microphone neurosis J S Bach […]

Alexandre Tharaud’s previous exploration of the Baroque repertoire has focused on composers such as Couperin and Rameau, whose music is rarely heard on the modern piano. The tradition of Scarlatti on the piano is much more firmly established – Vladimir Horowitz, for instance, would often include his music in recitals – but Tharaud draws inspiration from developments in historically informed […]

On Nov. 27, 1931, a new concerto by composer Maurice Ravel was premiered in Vienna. The work, a blending of traditional musical forms and modern jazz, was performed by pianist Paul Wittgenstein, whose virtuosity held the audience spellbound. Wittgenstein had personally commissioned the concerto, less to conform to his tastes than to fit his physique. This world-renowned concert pianist had […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during March 2011. Impressive line-up at the Ruhr Piano Festival Top 10 Composers – The importance of Bach and his influence on classical music to come Emanuel Ax about the future of classical music Russia well represented in the Tchaikovsky competition 2011 Who said classical music is dying? YouTube […]

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by Elyse Mach (Vols. 1 & 2, 1980, 1988, on Dover as a single volume 1991) Introduction by Sir Georg Solti. Over 50 black and white photos are included. “Revealing, candid thoughts about themselves, their careers, music they play, life of a concert pianist. Mach’s interviews will enhance the pleasure of any concertgoer.” – People Magazine This book is a […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during Feburary 2011. Liszt: the man who invented modern music Use Barcodes to Play a Piano Decca Classics signs recording contract with pianist Behzod Abduraimov Happy 85th Birthday Gyorgy Kurtag! Grammy to Uchida and Mozart! On classical musicians and Twitter The Grammy Nominee Mixtape Classical improvisation is not an […]

Being produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birthday, The Flying Machine takes the eternally fascinating and affecting Études, and crafts a celebration of the role that music and dance play in our lives, especially in our first pre-teen steps into the adult world. The premier was a one-off film event at the Royal Festival Hall in London on […]

Pianist Imogen Cooper continues her critically acclaimed Schubert Live series with the third 2-CD release of the composer’s late piano music, recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.The highly respected and acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper is enjoying something of a renaissance with her ongoing series of Schubert’s solo piano works on Avie. International accolades for the recordings abound, from NPR […]