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This interview took place at Steinway Hall in Manhattan
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Maurizio Pollini Hong Kong Interview
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Maurizio Pollini Hong Kong interview by RTHK – The Works, 14 April 2009.
Basic Principles in Piano Playing as Taught by Josef & Rosina Lhévinne. Explained by John Browning
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Outtakes from the documentary “Memories of John Browning: The Lhevinne Legacy Continues” (2006). The American pianist John Browning (1933-2003) explains and demonstrates some principles in piano playing as they were taught by Josef & Rosina Lhévinne.
At the end he plays Chopin‘s Nocturne In D flat major, Opus 27 no. 2.
Compare Chopin Nocturnes Opus 27 (1836) 2. Lento sostenuto (D-flat major)
Garrick Ohlsson / Piano Masterclass / Student – Netanel Grinshtein / Jerusalem Music Centre
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Filmed at the Jerusalem Music Centre, May 2013.
In this masterclass Netanel Grinshtein plays Frédéric Chopin Etudes Opus 25 no.11
Compare Chopin Etudes Opus 25 (1836) 11. Etude in A minor
Lang Lang Masterclass at the Royal College of Music: Rachmaninov’s Prelude in G op 32 no 5
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On Wednesday 16 November 2013 the Royal College of Music welcomed brilliant pianist Lang Lang to give an afternoon masterclass in our Britten Theatre.
In this masterclass RCM Junior Department student Anthony Tat plays Rachmaninov‘s Prelude in G op 32 no 5
Compare Rachmaninov Prelude Preludes Opus 32 (1910) 5. Prelude in G major – Moderato
Bernstein on Debussy
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Bernstein delineates the architecture of misdirection as expressed in Debussy‘s Afternoon of a Faun .
“The Last ditch effort to diatonically contain the ever increassing chromatic density of the last decade of the 19th Century”. Excerpt from lecture 4 “The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity”
from the 1973 Harvard Lectures
The video is in 2 parts :
Ivo Pogorelich ..Interview with Adriaan van Dis ..Amsterdam, 1984
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In this interview by Adriaan van Dis, you can hear Ivo Pogorelich playing Scriabin Etude op.8 n°2
Compare Alexander Scriabin performances of Etudes (12) Opus 8 (1895) 2. Etude in F-sharp minor – A capriccio, con forza
Lamond’s complete BBC speech about his time as a pupil of Liszt, broadcast in 1945
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Great video by David Pentecost
In this documentary you can hear Frederic Lamond playing Feux Follets by Liszt and Arthur Rubinstein the G sharp minor variation from Symphonic Etudes op.13 by Schumann
Compare Franz Liszt performances of Liszt Etudes d’exécution transcendante S 139 (1851) 5. Feux follets
Ilona Eibenschütz talks and plays: Reminiscences of Brahms (1952)
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Eibenschütz said of Brahms that he “played as if he were improvising, with heart and soul, sometimes humming to himself, forgetting everything around him. His playing was altogether grand and noble, like his compositions.“
Ruth Slenczynska talks and plays two Rachmaninoff Preludes (1963)
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Outtakes from a 1963 television appearance in which the American pianist Ruth Slenczynska (born January 15, 1925) recalls her meetings with Sergei Rachmaninoff and plays two of his Preludes (Opus 23/9 in E flat minor and Opus 23/2 in B flat major).