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

LETTERS

London Piano Festival unveils 2022 line-up

Alexander Gadjiev wins Hallé award

Composer John McLeod remembered

NEWS IN BRIEF

French pianist triumphs at Orléans Competition

Sharing ideas • Aris Alexander Blettenberg triumphed at last year’s Beethoven Competition in Vienna but has yet to decide whether his future lies in solo piano, ensemble playing, composing or conducting. Michael Johnson reports

Stronger together • Benjamin Ivry wonders whether solo pianists emerging from lockdown will be keener on ensemble playing

The Ill-Tempered Clavier • Charivari reckons enough’s enough when it comes to Einaudi and his like

Gathering momentum • Marking the completion of a major four-year Mozart project, Leif Ove Andsnes talks to Shirley Apthorp about a composer who he says smiles and cries at the same time

Spiritual force • Was Russian pianist Maria Yudina an exalted thinker or a mere eccentric? A new biography might help to redress the popular view, says Benjamin Ivry

Off at a tangent • Dr Alastair Laurence of John Broadwood & Sons introduces the company’s new line of clavichords and explores the benefits to pianists of practising on these historic keyboard instruments

Insight and inspiration for music professionals

Moving Heaven and Earth • There was an unexpected outcome when Luke Gillespie visited Hamburg to select a new Steinway for the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana

Shop window • Colin Clarke is impressed by Bechstein’s new state-of-the-art piano centre in Manchester

Sympathetic resonance • Owen Mortimer discovers how an invention from Italian soundboard maker Ciresa can enhance the sound of any digital piano

Career launcher • The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a record-breaking number of applicants. Stephen Wigler reports

Discover a library of sheet music in our digital archive

RETURNING TO THE PIANO • A technical refresher course for recommencing piano enthusiasts, created for International Piano by Murray McLachlan

CHOIR & ORGAN PRESENTS…

international Piano MASTERCLASS • Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ birth, Mark Bebbington takes us on a journey through The Lake In The Mountains, a piano piece derived from one of the composer’s film scores

To Phyllis Sellick • To Phyllis Sellick

Suite in D minor

Suite in D minor • I Prelude

Daily Expressions

Tuesday • Daily Expressions – Vol 2

Sunday • Daily Expressions – Vol. 1

New perspectives • Andreas Haefliger tells Colin Clarke why he chose Beethoven’s idiosyncratic Op 31 sonatas for his latest solo album with Swedish label BIS

Critic’s choice

ALBUM OF THE MONTH

GRAMOPHONE PRESENTS MOZART

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In concert

Holy ground • Nicholas Walker singles out insightful recordings that have shaped his musical thinking