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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

We humans seem to love comeback stories, and there is no comeback quite as compelling in the classical music world as Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. It was written three years after the disastrous premiere of his First Symphony, a premiere so catastrophic that it lives on in the annals of mu…

Essential All-Liszt Recitals Part 1

Consider making a donation to The Piano Maven podcast by subscribing to our Substack page (https://jeddistlermusic.substack.com/about), which you also can access by clicking on the "Donate" button here: https://rss.com/podcasts/pianomaven This episode focuses upon seven highly distinctive all-Lisz…

PIANISTS NOT PRACTICING…in Barcelona…with ALBA VENTURA

Primera Parte Meet the “heir to the great legacy of the Spanish piano school”, Alba Ventura. Born in Barcelona, Alba is a passionate, nuanced performer who made her solo debut at the age of thirteen performing Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” piano concerto with the Cadaqués Orchestra and Sir N Marriner. She …

PIANISTS NOT PRACTICING…in Barcelona…with ALBA VENTURA

Segunda Parte This week we continue our convo with Alba and it is so FULL of amazing strategies and ideas for how to approach performing and practicing. Definitely check out Part One of this conversation in Episode 13 if you haven’t already! In this convo, we chat about Alba’s memorization and pra…

Cantabile - March 13

Cantabile with Sue Fitch  HANDEL Organ Concerto No 13 in F "The Cuckoo & The Nightingale" Daniel Chorzempa; Concerto Amsterdam; Jaap Schroder  HANDEL Julius Caesar in Egypt "As the Huntsman Stalks his Prey" HWV17 Graham Pushee, counter-tenor; Dominic Harvey, horn; Australian Brandenburg Orch.; Dir…

Five Pianists - No Bad Recordings?

Here’s a challenge - name a pianist who never made a bad recording. Jed comes up with five pianists who possibly qualify. Here are links to selected recordings by these five: Sergei Rachmaninov – Liszt Polonaise No. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku5vyVticwA Dini Lipatti – Ravel Alborada del gr…

Risk, Transformation & Ecstatic Freedom: A Conversation with Daria Vasileva

In this episode of The Sum of All Wisdom, Scott Catey speaks with internationally performing concert pianist Daria Vasileva for a wide-ranging conversation on musical transformation, artistic freedom, and the power of storytelling in performance. From her early training in Russia’s rigorous conserv…

Professor Stephen Westaby, surgeon and writer

Professor Stephen Westaby is a former heart surgeon and writer. During his career he performed over 11,000 operations and pioneered the use of life long artificial hearts as an alternative to donor transplants. Stephen was born in Scunthorpe in 1948 and went to medical school at Charing Cross Hosp…

The Joy of Classical Music Ep 160 – Nothing but Rachmaninoff

Nothing but Rachmaninoff The 1954 edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians said Rachmaninoff’s popular appeal was based on "uncomfortable" emotionalism and that his works lacked structural innovation. They predicted that he would soon be forgotten. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performs Rach…

Marjorie Wallace

Marjorie Wallace is the Founder and Chief Executive of SANE. She inherits Chopin's Ballade in G minor played by Vladimir Ashkenazy and passes on 'If I Loved You' from the original movie soundtrack of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.