Piano News Flash – August 2011
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 App
- Claude Debussy’s birthday — hear him play Reflets dans l’eau
- Gramophone Awards: 2011 shortlist unveiled – Classical Music
- The Rhythm Thief: Chopin’s Timekeeping
- Nike Wagner on her Family’s Past
- Hear Lugansky play Rach 2 from Roque d’Anthéron
- 31 Days to Better Practicing – Free E-book
- How to learn any fugue in 5 easy steps
- Masterclass with Brahms and Bashkirov
- Deutsche Grammphon Celebrate Franz Liszt’s 200th with Collected Works
- Lust for Liszt in Bayreuth 2011
- A piano is black! Really?
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On the topic, “A Piano Is Black! Really?” : Pianos didn’t start being customarily finished in black until the latter half of the 19th century. Before that, (and in many cases, right up into the 20th century,) the finest pianos were veneered in natural woods, with beautifully matched grain patterns.
Some of the very earliest Bosendorfer pianos were veneered in cherry; other pianos were veneered in mahogany, walnut, or, later, rosewood. Somehow, natural wood came to be associated with “decorator” pianos – “noisy furniture” – rather than serious concert grands. Traditional grand piano design was intended to please the eye as well as the ear!
Thank you, a very interesting and useful collection of links.
I tried to follow links to videos of concerts but waited and waited so long that I gave up. Why are those sites so slow? They are, in effect, unusable. Maybe it’s a problem that I’m from Canada?
Thank you for a magnificent Verbier Festival concert, with a magnificent orchestra and a great pianist, Yuja Wang, in Rach 2. She is definitely an excellent example for today’s piano students; there is much to learn from her, at least technically. I enjoyed very much throughout the whole concert.