Category Archives: Piano

Tenuto – iOS Music Theory, Ear Training, and Keyboard / Fretboard Exercise App – Update: new iPad Retina display, Inversion Chord Ear Training, and more…

Posted on March 28, 2012 by sean walker

What’s New in Version 1.2 (released on March 28, 2012): • Enhanced graphics for the new iPad’s Retina display • Matrix Calculator • Audio playback in Interval Calculator, Chord Calculator, and Analysis Calculator • “Solfège (Movable Do)” and “Pitch-class Integers” … Continue reading →

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Previously Unknown Piano Piece by Mozart Premiered in Salzburg

Posted on March 25, 2012 by patrick

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 →

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Blüthner and the Aliquot Fourth String System

Posted on March 19, 2012 by patrick

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 →

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John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano

Posted on March 13, 2012 by patrick

“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 →

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Imagine: Being a Concert Pianist

Posted on March 9, 2012 by patrick

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 →

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50in1 Piano (iPhone and iPad versions) Updated

Posted on March 2, 2012 by sean walker

What’s New in Version 1.3 (of both apps):
• Stereo recording
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

50in1 Piano (iPhone) on the
50in1 Piano HD (iPad) on the
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Piano News Flash – February 2012

Posted on February 29, 2012 by nilsjohan

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links.

Blasting Mozart to drive criminals away
Interview with Khatia Buniatishvili
The Monster Concerto
Pianists Watts and Rosen awarded by president Obama
György Ligeti on his music and jazz piano
Interview with pianist Cyprien Katsaris
What happens in Queens?
Essentials for good posture
Benjamin Grosvenor’s debut on Decca
Hear two tracks from Yuja Wang’s new album [...] Continue reading →

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[Update] Pianist Pro

Posted on February 21, 2012 by sean walker

Alright! An update! It’s been about a year since the last one, I was getting concerned…

What’s New in Version 1.9.2 Released on February 21, 2012:
- Multitasking and fast-app switching added.
- External MIDI control optimized.
- MIDI files with… Continue reading →

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Rudolf Buchbinder Embraces Beethoven and the Art of Live Performances

Posted on February 21, 2012 by patrick

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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Carnegie Hall Live: Leif Ove Andsnes Performs Haydn, Chopin and More

Posted on February 17, 2012 by nilsjohan

An old joke that has become part of the folklore of one of New York City’s most famous concert venue runs as follows.
pedestrian on Fifty-seventh Street, Manhattan, stopped violinist Jascha Heifetz and inquired:
- Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?
- Yes, said Heifetz. Practice!
That’s indeed an option, but there are other [...] Continue reading →

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Piano Virtuoso 3 for iPad

Posted on February 16, 2012 by hu789ko9

  Piano Virtuoso 3 is a virtual piano app for your iPad.  It comes with dual keyboards that span a range of 88 keys.  All keys on the touch screen make use of True Velocity technology, which factors in volume and velocity simultaneously to produce a realistic sound.  Each key is also color coded and [...] Continue reading →

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Michelangeli’s “Only Other Pianist”: Sergio Fiorentino

Posted on February 16, 2012 by patrick

“Recently I listened to a pianist on the radio who impressed me very much: Sergio Fiorentino, do you know him?” – Vladimir Horowitz
He is the only other pianist, said the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli of Sergio Fiorentino (1927-1998). How is it that one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century [...] Continue reading →

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