Lectures on pictures by Ivan Gusev
This lecture was created in 2020 for the Saint Botolph club in Boston
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New feature : At the same time…
a – Which French pianists were born in the year Horowitz died?
b – Which French pianists over 18 years old were able to attend the famous duel organized on March 31, 1837 between Franz Liszt and Sigismund Thalberg by Princess Cristina Belgiojoso on the occasion of a charity concert for the benefit of Italian exiles in Paris, and which made Marie d’Agoult say: “Thalberg is the first pianist in the world. Liszt is the only one.” ?
With the “At the same time…” tool, access the list of pianists living at a given moment in history. You can filter this list by countries and age ranges.
Answers to the questions
a – answer : This link requires prior subscription to the club
b – answer : Click this link to see the result: the display of the year 1837 is free for testing.
Interview Piotr Anderszewski – Frédéric Gaussin
POST BY JEJOUEDUPIANO.COM
Frédéric Gaussin, a musical historian and specialist of interpretation, interviews the great pianists of our time: Piotr Anderszewski, Paul Badura-Skoda, Nelson Freire, Nelson Goerner, Evgeny Kissin, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Arcadi Volodos…
Pianists Corner evolves
As you have seen, Pianists Corner has changed and redesigned itself!
But it’s not only the look that has changed: there is also the creation of the Pianists Corner Club which, with its two packages, will allow you to find the two unique features that made the success of Pianists Corner:
- the visualization of the genealogy, with the map of filiations
- the comparison of video interpretations for a given piece of music
Next week, we will add an incredible new feature, also unique in the world: “At the Same Time…”, which will allow you to know who was contemporary of whom, with their age, all this by country, or with other filters!
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Interview Marc-André Hamelin – part-1 the learning years
POST BY Pianists Corner
Presentation
We meet Marc-André Hamelin in Berlin, not far from the Teldec studios where he has just recorded a virtuoso programme consisting of transcriptions of operas by Liszt and Thalberg coupled with the Hexameron variations. His ease and cordiality immediately establish a warm contact, and the conversation goes well in French on subjects of a richness at least in the image of the character. It was not the late hour, it could have lasted until the early morning.
The next day we meet the pianist again to conduct an in-depth interview, focusing on two directions: his learning of the piano and the rare repertoire he defends.
This first part of the interview is devoted to the learning years, an opportunity for the pianist to recall the memory of his teachers and to tell anecdotes with remarkable detail. Between Yvonne Hubert in Montreal, Harvey Wedeen in Philadelphia and Russell Sherman in Boston, not to mention his father, an amateur pianist who played a decisive role in his life, Marc-André Hamelin reviews the characters and highlights of this decisive period.
The musical illustrations accompanying these interviews were recorded at a later meeting in Paris on a 1926 Pleyel concert piano, model A (owned by our friend Christophe Labarde).
Interview part-1 the learning years