If you are an art and music aficionado and money isn’t a problem, why not start your own grand piano art collection? Bösendorfer has chosen 2012 to introduce their new “Artist Series” pianos, and have dedicated it’s first edition to Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) in order to honor the 150th Anniversary of his birth. The grand pianos are being […]

Piano Street‘s monthly series of hand picked piano related links. Jan Lisecki talks about his DG debut Pianist Shai Wosner about the dark Schubert The Spirit of Schubert, Scrapbook Benjamin Grosvenor’s debut on Decca Improve your sight reading using the Wessar App 159 facts about Steinway Interview with pianist Jeremy Denk Menahem Pressler gets Yehudi Menuhin Prize

This model D concert grand by Steinway & Sons, developed by Emanuel Moór (1863-1931), is the only Steinway equipped with a double keyboard. It was built by Steinway for Werner von Siemens of Berlin and sold to him in 1929. The piano was purchased by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1961 for the use of Gunnar Johansen, artist in residence […]

A previously unknown piece by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was performed for the first time on Friday, March 23. The piano piece was most likely composed in 1767 or 1768 when Mozart was just 11 years old. It was found in a 160 page handwritten notebook, thought to be written by Mozart’s father, in an attic in Tyrol, Austria. The piece […]

Generations of piano makers have been constantly attempting to improve the quality of their instruments. Julius Blüthner made an important contribution with the development of the Aliquot System. Patented for the first time in 1872, it was one more step that provided Blüthner’s well known warm and romantic sound. The patented Blüthner Aliquot System consists of an additional fourth string […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links. Blasting Mozart to drive criminals away Interview with Khatia Buniatishvili The Monster Concerto Pianists Watts and Rosen awarded by president Obama György Ligeti on his music and jazz piano Interview with pianist Cyprien Katsaris What happens in Queens? Essentials for good posture Benjamin Grosvenor’s debut on Decca Hear two tracks […]

Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder confirms the Vienna legacy through two powerful Beethoven releases dated year 2011, a DVD/Blu-ray of the Piano Concertos Nos. 1 – 5 with Wiener Philharmoniker and a CD box with the complete 32 Piano Sonatas, both recorded live, in Vienna and Dresden respectively. Often considered being the shining successor of the legendary Viennese-trojka (Gulda, Demus, Badura-Skoda), […]

An old joke that has become part of the folklore of one of New York City’s most famous concert venue runs as follows. A pedestrian on Fifty-seventh Street, Manhattan, stopped violinist Jascha Heifetz and inquired: – Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall? – Yes, said Heifetz. Practice! That’s indeed an option, but there are other ways […]

“Recently I listened to a pianist on the radio who impressed me very much: Sergio Fiorentino, do you know him?” – Vladimir Horowitz He is the only other pianist, said the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli of Sergio Fiorentino (1927-1998). How is it that one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century is still so unknown? Sergio Fiorentino was […]

A piano score of the recently rediscovered piano piece by Johannes Brahms, Albumblatt in A minor, has been published in an Urtext edition by Piano Street today. Free sheet music to download and print: Brahms – Albumblatt in A minor (File updated May 27, now inlcuding fingering and work comments.) Listen: András Schiff plays “Albumblatt” in A minor by Johannes […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links. New Brahms piece to be performed by Schiff Wigglesworth on noisy audiences New York Times talks to Garrick Ohlsson Weissenberg and Karajan in Rach 2 Legendary Alexis Weissenberg dies at 82 Physics of Sound: Daniel Barenboim on the Duration of Notes Have you heard Simone Dinnerstein? What Liszt Gave Himself […]

Bulgaria-born pianist Alexis Weissenberg, one of the legendary performers of the twentieth century, died on January 8th in Lugano, Switzerland. He was 82. Alexis Weissenberg passed away after a long illness, people close to his family said. Born in Sofia, the noted Jewish-born, French pianist of Bulgarian birth, Alexis Weissenberg, was taught to play the piano by his mother. Several […]