Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during June 2011. Results from the Tchaikovsky Competition 2011 Hough on with- or without the score? Looking for a Masterclass? The drama continues at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow Rare early Mozart edition discovered How this Tchaikovsky competition is being judged – a view from the jury room The […]

Evgeny Kissin is a great pianist in the Russian tradition, with the sweeping style, generous tone and powerful but supple technique that marks an heir of Rachmaninov. But for him, music is a language and performance is about communicating meaning, and he can conjure a world of imagination – reflective and insightful – even as he dazzles with his astonishing […]

Imagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzed for precise keystrokes and pedal motions, then played back on computer-controlled grand pianos. What we focus on is representing exactly is how musicians perform, John Q. Walker, Ph.D., Founder of Zenph Sound Innovations said. Using signal processing, […]

Ingolf Wunder is an exclusive artist of the label Deutsche Grammophon since February this year. June 17, 2011 will see the release of his first CD on the label with works by Chopin for solo piano. Wunder’s debut CD with Chopin and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit was released in 2006 (ORF). He is prizewinner of numerous piano competitions; most […]

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during May 2011. Pianists on pianists Lady Gaga Fugue Results of the Arthur Rubinstein 13th competition Van Cliburn amateur piano competition – watch on-line Lang Lang on his upbringing, work and having fun Enjoy free listening with SPCO library Beethoven absolutely complete Doctor Lang Lang Hough knee-deep in cellophane […]

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 […]