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Sony Classical signs pianist Hayato Sumino

Classical Music News

Friday, March 8, 2024

| Gramophone

Japanese pianist, composer and social media star Hayato Sumino joins Sony Classical's roster of artists

Samuil Feinberg: a life in the service of art

Features

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Continuing his series of articles on great 20th-century Russian pianists, Farhan Malik explores the life and distinctive pianism of Samuil Feinberg

Schumann’s Faschingsschwank aus Wien | Repertoire Guide

Features

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Charles Timbrell introduces a lesser-played masterpiece that was part of the miraculous outpouring of solo piano music Schumann composed in the years immediately before his marriage to Clara Wieck, and surveys its history on record

‘Schubert + Brahms’ – Schubert: Impromptus, D935. Drei Klavierstücke, D946. Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op 119 (Can Çakmur)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

It would be difficult to imagine a less evasive Schubertian, or one who turns such an ironic eye on the amicable and domestic world of the ‘Schubertiads’

The New Busoni: Exercises and Studies for the Piano, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edition Breitkopf)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

There is a wonderful holistic unity, an organic authenticity about the way the exercises are presented

Live Review: Le Piano Symphonique (Lucerne)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

In a very lively acoustic the Steinway piano was too brittle for this music but Fray coaxed it into subtlety between the moments of frenzy

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 29, ‘Hammerklavier’, Op 106. Chopin: Piano Sonata No 2, Op 35 (Beatrice Rana)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

These two performances are definitely worth hearing though they won’t be to all tastes

Poulenc: Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Cipelli understands the disarming simplicity typifying each piece in the Villageoises suite

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas – No 7, Op 10 No 3; No 8, ‘Pathétique’, Op 13; No 12, ‘Marche funèbre’, Op 26. Rondo, Op 51 No 1 (Gianluca Cascioli)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

He’s the Peter Sellers of pianists: untameable original if you get on his wavelength, merely wilful if you don’t

Hamelin: Barcarolle. Chaconne. Meditation on Laura. My Feelings About Chocolate, etc (Marc-André Hamelin)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

A pianist-composer in the grand tradition of past greats, Hamelin channels his thoughts through largely episodic or variation structures

‘Over Time’ (Konstantin Emelyanov)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

It is when you come to Rachmaninov that Emelyanov’s stature and quality become fully apparent

‘Diaries’ – Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15. Arabeske, Op 18. Davidsbündlertänze, Op 6 (Tiffany Poon)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Davidsbündlertänze, the highlight of the album, receives one of the finest interpretations I know

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (Tamami Honma)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

As a cycle this is rather good, and one I will return to often

Yang (Jack) Gao at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, New York | Live Review

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

It’s easy to hear why Gao wowed the Naumburg jury. The 20-year-old pianist never misses a note

‘The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 86’ (Howard Shelley)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

All three works are tailor-made for the pianism of Howard Shelley, his all-round alertness abetted by responsive playing from the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

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Sony Classical signs pianist Hayato Sumino

Samuil Feinberg: a life in the service of art

Schumann’s Faschingsschwank aus Wien | Repertoire Guide

‘Schubert + Brahms’ – Schubert: Impromptus, D935. Drei Klavierstücke, D946. Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op 119 (Can Çakmur)

The New Busoni: Exercises and Studies for the Piano, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edition Breitkopf)

Live Review: Le Piano Symphonique (Lucerne)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 29, ‘Hammerklavier’, Op 106. Chopin: Piano Sonata No 2, Op 35 (Beatrice Rana)

Poulenc: Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas – No 7, Op 10 No 3; No 8, ‘Pathétique’, Op 13; No 12, ‘Marche funèbre’, Op 26. Rondo, Op 51 No 1 (Gianluca Cascioli)

Hamelin: Barcarolle. Chaconne. Meditation on Laura. My Feelings About Chocolate, etc (Marc-André Hamelin)

‘Over Time’ (Konstantin Emelyanov)

‘Diaries’ – Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15. Arabeske, Op 18. Davidsbündlertänze, Op 6 (Tiffany Poon)

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (Tamami Honma)

Yang (Jack) Gao at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, New York | Live Review

‘The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 86’ (Howard Shelley)

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