International Piano Magazine September 2019 Zurück Ausgabe

Alexandre Kantorow makes history as the first French pianist to win Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Festival; Angela Hewitt offers tips for interpreting Beethoven; Ivo Pogorelich returns to the recording studio in pursuit of his ideal piano sound; and key conservatoire courses in the US and UK.
Plus, exploring the transformation of the French School of pianism; how to achieve effortless and natural rubato; sheet music of Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor and works by Adolf von Henselt and Douglas Lilburn; Lucy Parham celebrates Clara Schumann in words and music; how London’s Royal Academy of Music is arming the next generation of pianists with essential skills for life as professional musicians; Piers Lane finds divine inspiration on disc; British pianist Alexander Ullman; IP meets the pioneering sound engineer at the helm of Tonal Studios in Vienna; Rockschool’s new piano syllabus; and lyrical jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani.