International Piano

International Piano offers a rich mix of inspiration and guidance to pianists and piano fans around the world, from dedicated amateurs and students to professional pianists, teachers and aficionados. Celebrating the piano in all its forms, including the fortepiano and digital keyboards, each edition of our magazine is packed with interviews, features, news and reviews showcasing the top artists of today and yesteryear.

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International Piano

International Piano meets Katya Apekisheva

Igor Levit teams up with Christian Thielemann

Forthcoming piano box-sets

Chopin Competition tickets go on sale

Schliessmann to Somm

Cleveland announces winner

Nina Svetlanova dies aged 92

Alexander Mndoyants dies at 75

Male dominance revisited • Rhonda Boyle presents peer-reviewed evidence to explain the lack of women among the top prize winners at major piano competitions-this does not involve jury bias

Historical Perspectives • Mark Ainley revisits the playing of the Hungarian pianist Ilona Eibenschütz, who knew Brahms and Clara Schumann, and whose pianism sheds fascinating light on the kind of playing they might have expected to hear

Musings of a musician • Kenneth Hamilton ponders the issue of pianistic lineages – playing styles, national schools, influential teachers — and asks whether such labels ultimately tell us anything useful

The Ill-Tempered Clavier • Charivari lets off some steam and laments some all-too-common traits of audience behaviour

Broadening horizons • The eldest of seven musical siblings, Isata Kanneh-Mason has recorded an album of works by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Jeremy Nicholas talks to her about balancing life and music

Remembering Gaby Casadesus • To mark 25 years since the death at the age of 98 of Gaby Casadesus, whose life spanned almost the entire 20th century, Charles Timbrell offers a personal tribute

An invitation to dance • George Li introduces his new album of dance-related works by Ravel, Schumann and Stravinsky and explores what binds these pieces into a cohesive programme

Busoni’s solo piano music • Richard Whitehouse offers a survey of the piano music of ferruccio busoni, from derivative early sketches to majestic late masterpieces, and explores its recorded history

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NUTS AND BOLTS • A manual breaking down aspects of piano technique with practical advice and step-by-step guidance for players of all standards, written for International Piano by Murray McLachlan

Discover a library of sheet music in our digital archive

Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Pioneering advocate • Richard Whitehouse explores the complete Véga recordings by Yvonne Loriod, reissued to mark her centenary. and finds a pianist of wide-ranging sympathies

Critics’ choice

INTERNATIONAL PIANO CHOICE

REVIEWS • CDs

A quarterly round-up • Nigel Simeone listens to some recent releases with an eclectic mix of repertoire

Live Reviews

Celebrating the piano’s music and musicians

REVIEWS • SHEET MUSIC

NEXT ISSUE WINTER 2024

The immediacy of re-creation • Sergei Edelmann reflects on recordings that shaped his musical upbringing, from The Beatles to Horowitz