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How can we approach and learn about period instruments? We think the best way would be to follow the path of a pianist who actually did and additionally, very successfully. We talked with the second prize winner and winner of the prize for best Polish participant of the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, pianist Piotr Pawlak. Read more
Winners of the 66th Grammy Awards are announced and pianist Yuja Wang was awarded the Best Classical Instrumental Solo – one of the leading classical categories – for her album “The American Project”, alongside conductor Teddy Abrams. Read more
It is easy to take piano playing and musicianship for granted but most people have experienced physical tension and strain while practicing. The American pianist, pedagogue, and researcher Dr. Kathleen Riley has spent many years developing a method called Optimal Performance, scanning pianists’ bodies using electrodes. In a Masterclass with students and pianist Garrick Ohlsson as test subjects at San Francisco International Piano Festival last fall, we get a chance to see how the method works in action. Read more
Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, a universally recognized profile for his Chopin research and lifelong dedication to teaching, graciously accepts to answer the questions of this interview for Cremona Musica, where he received the Cremona Music Award for Communication 2023. Read more
Pianist Paul Roberts’ latest book “Reading Franz Liszt” invites readers into Liszt’s world through an engaging examination of his most cherished compositions and the underlying literary works that influenced them. Exploring the depths of Franz Liszt’s legacy, Roberts presents a fresh perspective on the legendary composer, emphasizing his poetic sensitivity alongside his technical prowess. Read more
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Piano News Flash

2024-03-19
The Great Byron Janis Dies at 95
Byron Janis, the celebrated pianist, rose to fame as a cultural icon in the US after captivating audiences in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was Horowitz's first student in 1944 and made his orchestral debut with Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra. At 18, he became RCA Victor Records' youngest artist.
Read at google.com
2024-03-18
Art as Music
In his composition for large orchestra and solo piano, "Of the Sound of Pictures ", Swiss composer, pianist, and painter Alfons Karl Zwicker drew inspiration from five modern artists: Bucholz, Klee, Kandinsky, Klein, and Fruhtrunk. Incorporating key works from each artist, Zwicker crafted a musical landscape reflective of their abstract paintings, all originating from the 20th century.
Read at interlude.hk
2024-03-17
The Mystical Schumann
Pianist Burkard Schliessmann's 3-disc album takes a deep dive into the concept of phantasmagoria: a key aspect of Schumann's work that deals with the realms of fantasy and its connection to the real world. The pianist specifically highlights how this theme is mirrored in the notions of twilight.
Read at gramophone.co.uk
2024-03-16
Four Hand Women Composers
At the upcoming concert titled "Celebrating Women in Music: Exploring Works for Piano Duet", pianists Gabriela Calderon Cornejo and Astrid Morales Torres perform a four hands recital. Their program showcases pieces by classical female composers from various continents, highlighting the talent and diversity of women in music.
Read at almanacnews.com
2024-03-15
From Denver Home to Festival
In 2022, piano pedagogue Cheryl Reeder and another piano instructor began fundraising for a festival catering to young piano players aged 6 to 18: Adams County Music Festival.
Read at cbsnews.com
2024-03-14
Five Saint-Saens Concertos
By 1904, concerto performances in Paris were often interrupted by shouts and whistles, as the genre, known for its emphasis on virtuosity, was seen as gaudy, shallow, and egotistical, according to pianist Marguerite Long's recollection.
Read at classical-music.com
2024-03-13
The Unique Soviet Pianist
Samuil Feinberg, a relatively unknown international figure during his lifetime, was a groundbreaking pianist in Russia. He was the first to perform Bach's entire WTC in concert and often featured all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas in his programs. Feinberg also championed the work of modern Russian composers alongside the traditional classics.
Read at gramophone.co.uk

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2024-03-19

Lang Lang:
Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals, Piano Concerto 2



On this French album Lang Lang mixes solo, duo, and concerto works by a rich selection of male, female, iconic, and lesser-known composers. Recording Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto was a mission to rediscover a neglected masterpiece. Pairing it with Carnival of the Animals was both an opportunity to foster a new generation's love of classical music and a chance to collaborate with his wife, Gina Alice.
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2024-03-17

Anastasia Vorotnaya:
Medtner & Rachmaninoff – Piano Sonatas



Rachmaninoff and Medtner were contemporaries, who marked the end of Russian Romanticism. Nicknamed the "Russian Brahms" (although closer to Liszt), Medtner composed no fewer than 14 piano sonatas at a time when the genre had gone out of fashion. The "Night Wind" Sonata is the seventh and most extensive of these, and was dedicated to Rachmaninoff.
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2024-03-15

Adriana von Franqué:
Filigrane



"Filigrane" is the French noun for "filigree," a goldsmith’s work made of an elaborate mesh of gold or silver thread. Here, Adriana von Franqué associates it with the delicate polyphony that unites the musical language of César Franck, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Lili Boulanger, and the Paris-educated Polish composer Simon Laks.
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2024-03-13

Beatrice Rana:
Chopin, Beethoven – Funeral March & Hammerklavier Sonatas



Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' and Chopin's 'Funeral March' Sonata have rarely featured on the same album. However, as Beatrice Rana puts it, these two works "transcend the human condition in very different ways – but not altogether different, because they both have so much to do with the fear of death, with the fear of loneliness... I think that made coupling these two pieces very interesting." Both works are also experiments at the highest visionary level.
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