How about instant access on the go to 3000+ study scores from the standard classical piano repertoire? On m.pianostreet.com, a mobile version of Piano Street’s sheet music library you can easily view all piano scores on your mobile device. The mobile sheet music library gives convenient mobile access to all scores from www.pianostreet.com. It is a mobile application in the […]

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 […]

2011 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra: Mozart, Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24 Mitsuko Uchida, Cleveland Orchestra (Decca) Pianist Dame Mitsuko Uchida has just won her first-ever Grammy award. The recording, Mozart: Piano Concertos nos. 23 & 24, was released in the US on September 8, 2009 and is one in a series of recordings of […]

Charles Rosen is one of the world’s most talented pianists — and one of music’s most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals. In Piano Notes, (Free Press, 2002) he writes for a broader audience about an old friend — the piano […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during January. How Do We Fix Classical Music? Here’s What You Told Us – Deceptive Cadence, NPR Christopher O’Riley And The Art Of Listening Listen to Y220 Aspen and Steven Osborne in Mozart PC no 19 Chopin’s hallucinations explained? BBC takes an inspirational look into Mozart’s times and life […]

In early January this puzzling mystery gave a whole new meaning to the phrase “piano bar.” A grand piano appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Miami. How and why the piano got there was a mystery. A grand piano weighs at least 650 pounds and is unwieldly to move, said Bob Shapiro, a salesman at Piano Music Center in […]

The Complete Liszt Piano Music with Leslie Howard to be released in February 2011 In 1986, to mark the centenary of Franz Liszt’s death, Leslie Howard gave a series of ten Liszt recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall. By excluding Liszt’s arrangements (fantasies and transcriptions) of other composers’ works, and by selecting only the final versions of Liszt’s original works for […]

Maurizio Pollini, appearing as part of the International Piano Series at London’s South Bank, will perform five recitals between January and May of music from Bach to modernism, described as “personal journey through four centuries of piano repertoire”. Read the interview in the Guardian The Pollini Project, program: 28 January Bach: The Well-tempered Clavier, book 1 15 Fabruary Piano Sonata […]

We celebrate your birthday, Mozart, with a little gift to all your fans, a facsimile of one of your first pieces, Minuet in G, K 1. Print out and play!! Download free PDF of Mozart’s Minuet in G, K. 1 (autograph facsimile)