The 3-D Piano Method is a 6-DVD series on piano teaching and playing, produced by artist-teacher Fred Karpoff. It attempts to describe the graceful, efficient usage of the whole body to play the piano in three-dimensions, as opposed to tenets such as “making all the fingers the same length,” “thumb-under” scales, “high” fingers, and using opposable muscles simultaneously, with curled […]

Today, October 22 2011, marks the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt, the greatest piano virtuoso of his time, inventor of the modern piano recital and one of the most influential composers of the 19th century. Piano Street here presents a collection of material and links to resources for you to enjoy in order to commemorate the great Franz Liszt. Happy […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links. Murray Perahia’s album of Brahms’ Handel Variations receives the Instrumental award Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s album of Concertante piano works receives the Concerto award Glenn Gould would have loved the Internet Have you heard Charlie Albright? All you need to know about the Tchaikovsky competition Chopin rescues Nikita Magaloff from oblivion? Music […]

Dreamer, poet, radical, and visionary, Franz Schubert was a composer who stood between worlds. In his short life, he wrote music as epic as Beethoven and as perfect as Mozart; music that could bubble with life and joy and yet probe the darkest depths of the human soul – or distil both experiences into pure, haunting beauty. Schubert’s music defined […]

Piano Street’s hand picked piano related links collected during August 2011. Kirill Gerstein’s Classical And Jazz Conundrum Awesome piano playing: Lady Gaga Plays and Sings Paparazzi Hear Yuja Wang in Rach 2 from Verbier until October 31 Ingolf Wunder’s Chopin Recital on DG Check out BBC Proms – Episodes coming up Freedom of Expression Try the new Tchaikovsky Competition 2011 […]

The piano master classes of Franz Liszt 1884-1886, Diary notes of August Göllerich by August Göllerich Indiana University Press, 1996, ISBN: 0253332230 Göllerich was student, secretary and companion to Liszt during the musician’s last two years (1884-86). The diary contains the dates of the master classes, lists of performers and the works they performed, and some general thoughts and reflections […]

NEW! Click the album cover to listen to the complete album: (This is a new feature available for Gold members of pianostreet.com) This CD, a collection of live recordings taken from performances at the Royal Festival Hall and the Festival de la Grange de Meslay, provides yet another example of Boris Berezovsky’s stunning virtuosity and musicality. A Liszt recital, the […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during July 2011. Read Aspen Music Festival’s Beethoven Book on the Piano Trios Hamelin, a true virtuoso What future awaits the world’s budding virtuosos? New Liszt “wild and crazy” website – Explore Decca’s comprehensive overview of this extraordinary Arranged marriages that lead to love at first sight All the […]

Famous Pianists and Their Technique has been a standard in the field since its first publication in 1974. This widely used and acclaimed history of piano technical thought includes insights into the techniques of masters such as C.P. E. Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Clementi, Czerny, Debussy, Godowsky, Horowitz, Levinskaya, Leschetizky, the Lhevinnes, Liszt, Mozart, Prokofiev, Ravel, Rubinstein, and Schubert, […]

The Verbier Festival is considered as one of the most important European festivals. Every July, the greatest names of classical music gather during two weeks, among the wonderful landscape of the Swiss Alps for an exceptional concert series. The festival gives the artists the opportunity to perform original programmes with other musicians that they admire and with whom they have […]

In October 2011, Carnegie Hall celebrates Tchaikovsky – the superstar who opened the Hall in May 1891. In the July episode of from the Carnegie Hall Archives, Museum Director and Archivist Gino Francesconi explores the connections between Carnegie Hall, New York, and Tchaikovsky. Gino reveals how—amidst the turmoil of the decline of the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s—Carnegie Hall […]

Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire is among the truly great living musicians, and his remarkable musicianship continues to captivate the critics and charm the musical world. Winner of the Gramophone Recording of the Year in 2007 for his Brahms Piano Concertos. Nelson has a special affinity with Debussy’s music and his magical style perfectly suits these luminous works key French piano […]