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- New record label for lesser-known piano music
Grand Piano, a new label dedicated to classical pianorecordings, will launch this March. The label will focus on rare works andlesser-known piano cycles that might otherwise have remained unrecorded - Lang Lang to perform Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle in London
Superstar pianist Lang Lang returns to the UK in March toperform his complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle. It will be the first timethe 27-year-old has performed the repertoire in London, and the series willtake place over three evenings at the Royal Albert Hall - Superstar line up for Southbank Centre’s 2011-12 International Piano Series
Legendary pianists Mitsuko Uchida, Arcadi Volodos andMaurizio Pollini will perform at London’s Southbank Centre as part of thevenue’s 2011-12 International Piano series - HJ Lim signs to EMI
EMI Classics has announced that pianist HJ Lim has joined its roster. The South Korean’s first project under the new agreement will be a recording of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas - Chopin sculpture unveiled in Manchester, UK
A bronze monument celebrating the life of Chopin has been unveiled on Deansgate, in the centre of Manchester, in the presence of the Polish ambassador Barbara Tuge-Erecinska
Contents for International Piano
The Ibelhauptas Duo by Dmitrij Matvejev
HJ Lim on recording the Beethoven sonatas
Pianos in company
Keyboard ensembles – from the ubiquitous to the bizarre
Bristol International Piano Duo Festival
Reviewing the current crop of piano twosomes
Symposium
Our esteemed panel discusses Debussy
Piano makers
Brodmann pianos past and present
András Schiff
On not liking Liszt, and politics in his native Hungary
Summer schools
Essential residential courses to attend
The issue includes free sheet music: Two duets by Debussy and Schubert
Editorial
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