International Piano Magazine NovDec 2020 Zurück Ausgabe

Hélène Grimaud leads us on a mind-expanding journey through the music of Mozart and Silvestrov; Steinway fleet transforms Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama; Margaret Fingerhut finds solace in Bach’s fugues during the chaos of the pandemic; and is there such a thing as a national style of piano playing in Hungary?
Plus, rediscovering the power of live music at the Chopin Institute’s summer festival; 14 pages of free sheet music including our masterclass on how to achieve a true singing line in Thalberg’s transcription of Rossini’s operatic quartet ‘Mi manca la voce'; Bertrand Chamayou introduces his new album of keyboard lullabies; revelling in the responsiveness of Yamaha’s new Clavinova 700 Series; key international piano competitions in 2021; the pros and cons of taking a graded approach to piano pedagogy and a look at the innovative new syllabuses from the UK’s leading music exam boards; debunking the myth that men and women excel at different repertoire; Russian pianist Georgy Tchaidze; and Tamara Stefanovich shares her passion for music through the ages.