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Piano As Art – The Art of Transforming Pianos
Last month we wrote about a piano maker incorporating old visual art into new built pianos. This time the opposite applies – creating new visual art out of old pianos. Broken strings and missing keys have made an appearance on … Continue reading
How Can Modern Technology Contribute to a Great Piano Performance?
Why haven’t there been any fundamental changes of grand piano design since the 1870s? Some claim it is because manufacturers are afraid of getting beaten up in the marketplace if their pianos are seen as being “experimental”. Others say that … Continue reading
Another Reason to Keep the Piano Lid Open
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 … Continue reading
Dinu Lipatti’s Chopin Waltzes Still in Print
Dinu Lipatti gave his final recital, which was recorded, on 16 September 1950 in Besançon, France. Despite severe illness, he gave unmatched performances of Bach’s Partita in B flat major, Mozart’s A minor Sonata, Schubert’s G flat major and E … Continue reading
Dinu Lipatti’s Chopin Waltzes Still in Print
Dinu Lipatti gave his final recital, which was recorded, on 16 September 1950 in Besançon, France. Despite severe illness, he gave unmatched performances of Bach’s Partita in B flat major, Mozart’s A minor Sonata, Schubert’s G flat major and E … Continue reading
Dinu Lipatti’s Chopin Waltzes Still in Print
Dinu Lipatti gave his final recital, which was recorded, on 16 September 1950 in Besançon, France. Despite severe illness, he gave unmatched performances of Bach’s Partita in B flat major, Mozart’s A minor Sonata, Schubert’s G flat major and E … Continue reading
Mr. Taylor’s Double Vision
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. … Continue reading
Previously Unknown Piano Piece by Mozart Premiered in Salzburg
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 … Continue reading
Blüthner and the Aliquot Fourth String System
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 … Continue reading
John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano
“Tranquility through austerity” had become Cage’s watchword by the time he composed the Suite for Toy Piano in 1948. His new musical heroes were the master miniaturists Webern and Satie and in his polemical addresses to the students he championed their sense of scale against the “deadening” monumentality of Beethoven.
Cage: “As soon as I began [...] Continue reading
Imagine: Being a Concert Pianist
In July 2011, 19-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor made his debut at the Proms to great acclaim, wowing both audiences and critics with his performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major. The youngest ever soloist to perform in the First Night of the Proms, he returned to the Royal Albert Hall on August [...] Continue reading
Rudolf Buchbinder Embraces Beethoven and the Art of Live Performances
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 [...] Continue reading
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