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Denis Herlin: “Debussy Refused in General to Be a Performer, Even Throughout His Career as a Pianist”
We have in Piano Magazine a fascinating interview with Dennis Herlin, one of the foremost experts on the music of Claude Debussy.
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Stephen Hough — “Vida breve” (Hyperion, 2021)
In this interview we discuss with Stephen Hough about a lot of details regarding his album Vida breve (Hyperion, 2021).
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Stephen Hough: “Recording the Hummel Is One of My Fondest Memories”
In this extensive interview, we have a chat with Stephen Hough about his multifaceted artistic activity, piano recordings, career, and even the current situation in the world.
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The First Complete Recording of the Beethoven Sonatas
Artur Schnabel’s groundbreaking recording of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas is still legendary over 80 years later.
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Goran Filipec — “Liszt & Busoni: Orchestral Works” (Naxos, 2021)
Goran Filipec talks about his latest release for Naxos with the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra and Imre Kollár. This is an album of rare piano and orchestral music by Liszt, including his “Hungarian Fantasy,” the youth work “De Profundis,” the first version of the “Totentanz,” as well as Busoni’s arrangement for piano and orchestra of the…
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Boris Berman: “My Harpsichord Experiences Have Taught Me Many Things Useful For My Piano Playing”
We interview Boris Berman, Professor in the Practice of Piano at Yale School of Music, an outstanding musician trained at the Moscow Conservatory, who talks about his career as a soloist and his role as a teacher.
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Introducing “The Piano Files” — An Introduction to Historical Piano Recordings
We have the honour to present our collaboration with Mark Ainley from “The Piano Files.” In this post he makes an introduction to the fascinating world of old recordings, which we will continue to explore with him throughout this section of our site.
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Stephen Hough’s Highlights
We are delighted to present Stephen Hough as our Artist of the Month. He combines a distinguished career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Hough was the first classical performer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2001) and was made a Commander…
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Three Unpublished Recordings by Nelson Goerner
Unpublished recordings by a twenty-one-year-old Nelson Goerner of the Hammerklavier Sonata (Beethoven), the Three Movements of Petrushka (Stravinsky), and the Arabesques on the Blue Danube (Schulz-Evler).



