Etiket: Pianos
In La Seyne-sur-Mer, the international Sand & Chopin festival brings back to life pianos from the Romantic era
For ten years, the Sand & Chopin en Seyne festival has paid tribute to the novelist George Sand and the composer Frédéric Chopin. The program includes classical music concerts accompanied…
These old pianos that no one wants anymore
Have you noticed the number of old pianos being given away on social media? It’s crazy! These instruments made of wood, metal and ivory, which were once a source of…
Kent Nagano, “Concertos for 2 and 3 pianos by Mozart and Poulenc”
This should delight Montreal admirers of the OSM’s musical director emeritus, Kent Nagano. It is above all the quintessence of the concept of “family affair”, since the soloists are his…
“Concertos for two pianos” by Mozart, Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang
Third stage of the project aimed at completing all of the Keyboard concertos of Mozart by Robert Levin, formerly undertaken with the late Christopher Hogwood. Concertos for two pianos are…
Old pianos have become bulky in Quebec homes
Increasingly abandoned on street corners or offered for free on classifieds sites, old pianos have lost their former glory, replaced by digital instruments, which are less expensive and easier to…
Return in semitone for public pianos
As soon as installed, almost immediately removed. “Repeated” quarrels between citizens and the person in charge of the instrument got the better of the public piano that had brightened up…
Public pianos, the unloved project
Three million four hundred thousand dollars for surfing in Montreal… How much for public pianos? Mind you, we have nothing against surfing and its followers. We would only like the…
Opening concert of the Lille Piano(s) Festival, with the ONL and Francesco Piemontesi
For the opening of the Lille Piano(s) Festival, the Orchester National de Lille conducted by Alexandre Bloch, offers us the Overture of Don Giovanni of Mozart. Then, still under the…