Piano News

  • Steinway Sold for $438 million

    Steinway Sold for $438 million

    Steinway Musical Instruments Inc was founded in 1853 in a loft on Manhattan’s lower west side. It is most famous for Steinway & Sons pianos, but today its products include Bach Stradivarius trumpets, Selmer Paris saxophones, C.G. Conn French horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones, and Ludwig snare drums. Steinway announced on Monday July 1st that…

  • New Audiovisual Study Tool at Piano Street

    http://www.pianostreet.com/search/audiovisual-study-tool.php A new, revolutionary tool that allows you to learn piano pieces faster, broaden your repertoire knowledge, improve your interpretational skills or to simply immerse yourself in the refined art of classical piano music, has finally arrived! The AST integrates Piano Street’s sheet music library with the leading video and music streaming services YouTube, Spotify…

  • Visual Art Comes (Back) to Steinway Piano

    Visual Art Comes (Back) to Steinway Piano

    Celebrating its 160-year anniversary on March 5, Steinway & Sons, the classic piano with a grand sound, has added an incredible visual pop to its design: It partnered with an artist by the name of Lynx to paint abstract art on the keyboard lid, piano lid, music desk and even the case of some of…

  • Portraits of Musical Celebrities

    A collection of letters to Steinway & Sons written by Anton Rubinstein, Liszt, Paderewski, Berlioz, Wagner, and some of the other musical (and acoustical) geniuses of the 19th century extolling the virtues of Steinway pianos. http://archive.org/details/portraitsofmusic00stei

  • Kristian Bezuidenhout introduces Mozart’s fortepiano

    Kristian Bezuidenhout introduces Mozart’s fortepiano

    Kristian Bezuidenhout performed the Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in Mozart Tempest, 2011. Here, he takes us on a tour of the instrument.

  • The Secret Life of Piano Tuners

    Hear from the people who keep New Zealand’s pianos sounding sweet, from old dingers to Steinway grands. We meet the man who tuned Paul McCartney’s family “joanna” and hear stories of the itinerant piano tuners who were much sought after in 19th century New Zealand. People interviewed in this programme include: Anthony Fry – piano…

  • Michelle Campanella plays Liszt’s Bechstein

    Michelle Campanella plays Liszt’s Bechstein

    “Michele Campanella plays Liszt’s Bechstein” is the title of a CD that was recorded in February 2011 and published by Brilliant Classics in autumn of the same year. The Italian pianist recorded rarities and late pieces such as “Historische Ungarische Bildnisse”, “Am Grabe Richard Wagners” and “Nuages gris” on the Bechstein grand piano that belonged…

  • Three Approaches to Piano Restoration

    Conservative | Modern | Innovative.  WHEN REBUILDING A PIANO, the restorer is presented at every turn with questions concerning the extent to which the piano’s original design, parts, and materials should be preserved or, conversely, altered or replaced. The philosophies that guide these decisions fall, roughly, into three camps, which might be called, respectively: Conservative,…

  • The Early Steinway Research Project

    The Early Steinway Research Project This project is a “history of technology” study of the early Steinway piano from 1853 to 1892. This project includes several inter-related components: Archival research: Development of a database from the Steinway log books; extensive study of other early Steinway documents and correspondence. Identification and documention of early Steinway pianos…

  • Pianist finds forte with Mozart

    Pianist finds forte with Mozart

    An appreciation of style and grace fuels Kris Bezuidenhout’s long-held passion for Mozart, writes Steve Dow. Bezuidenhout will play, as he often does, on fortepianos similar to those Mozart played and composed on. A fortepiano is the early version of a piano, lighter in both construction and sound. But the instrument has been neglected in…

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