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Arcadi Volodos’s Consummate Pianism◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 11. 25. 02:43
“You can keep your Lang Langs, your Yuja Wangs, your Evgeny Kissins… I’d swap their collective virtuosity for one evening of Arcadi Volodos’s consummate pianism. To my mind, he has produced nothing finer on disc than this live recital, captured in Vienna last spring.” — Gramophone Magazine Volodos in Vienna is a recital album by Arcadi Volodos recorded live..
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Pianist Lang Lang appointed UN Messenger of Peace◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 11. 17. 04:54
Capitalizing on the popularity of the pianist Lang Lang, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on October 28 designated the world-renowned Chinese as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on global education. There are 57 million children around the world who don’t regularly attend school. Mr. Lang has been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 2003 and recently ..
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Samsung Smashes Haydn in Gothenburg◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 11. 17. 04:25
At a concert in Gothenburg Concert Hall October 23, 2013, pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias stopped playing in the middle of Haydn’s D major Piano Concerto interrupted by an audience member’s cell phone ringing for the second time the same concert. At the end of a phrase in the first movement, Zacharias abruptly stops, looks back and says, “Don’t answer. Let it..
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Congratulations Mr. Graffman!◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 11. 17. 04:04
Pianist Gary Graffman turned 85 this month. In a musical career that has spanned seven of those 8 1/2 decades, Mr. Graffman has experienced everything from entering the prestigious Curtis Institute at the age of seven, the accidental, self-inflicted destruction of his right hand’s dexterity to becoming one of the most prominent educators in the US. As he recently reminisced,..
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Steinway Update: Code Name “Edelweiss” Outbid by a True Piano Lover◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 10. 27. 04:32
The calculation was rather simple — Mr. Paulson loves Steinway’s pianos, so why not buy the whole company? Back in July, equity firm Kohlberg & Company, reached an agreement with Steinway to buy the company for $35 a share ($485 million). But piano enthusiast and billionaire John Paulson, presumably after reading Piano Street’s post encouraging “others to make ..
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Do We Judge Music by Sight More Than Sound?◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 10. 27. 04:09
During the summer several interesting articles that deal with the conception of audibility vs. visibility have been presented by international media. It may seem counterintuitive, but an expert from University College London, concert pianist and psychologist Chia-Jung Tsay has brought forth a theory that general physical appeal and visual aspects of performance are more import..
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Yuja Wang at Verbier Festival 2013◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 8. 28. 19:00
In this 3 minute interview Yuja Wang tells us, among other things, the secret of her harmony between fingers and spirit: Interview video Interview Yuja Wang & Joshua Bell play Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, 3rd mvt. Watch the 2013 Verbier Festival concerts in free replay on medici.tv!
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Barenboim’s Decca/DG Deal Opened Up for Neglected Chopin◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2013. 8. 27. 07:19
“… one of the few musicians in the world today who could accurately be described as legendary.” – The Times Daniel Barenboim marked his new affiliation with Decca and Deutsche Grammophon labels in 2010 with four releases. Two releases on DG were devoted to Chopin: a solo recital recorded in Warsaw, with Waltzes, a Polonaise, a Fantasia, a Nocturne and the B fla..