International Piano | January 2020
IP celebrates Beethoven’s 250th anniversary in our January edition: Jonathan Biss completes his nine-year Beethoven odyssey recording all 32 piano sonatas; tracing Beethoven’s journey from dazzling virtuoso to towering composer and his influence on the development of the piano; how piano transcriptions reveal the intricacies of Beethoven’s music; and Ronald Brautigam on performing Beethoven’s concertos on fortepiano.
Plus, 18 pages of free sheet music including Steven Osborne’s insights on interpreting the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in E major Op 109 and Balakirev’s transcription of the Allegretto from Beethoven’s second Razumovsky Quartet Op 59/2; Saleem Ashkar on Beethoven’s late piano masterpieces; Howard Shelley performs Beethoven’s five piano concertos; the best summer courses for pianists in 2020; rising star Elisabeth Brauss; Italian-American pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi; and how closely should performers follow the score?
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in International Piano January 2020.