Six Conversations with Pianist Eunice Norton on Bach's WTC (1978)

600 MB MP4 Video

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Angela Hewitt's Bach Master Class in The Greene Space

361 MB FLV 
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Lang Lang Masterclasses at the Royal College of Music

On Wednesday 16 November 2013 the Royal College of Music welcomed brilliant pianist Lang Lang to give an afternoon masterclass in our Britten Theatre. Lang Lang worked with pianists studying at the RCM's Junior Department as well as with students from Lang Lang Music World (LLMW): his school for gifted pianists in Shenzhen, China.

• LLMW student Sun Zhixian plays Chopin Variations Brillantes in B Flat Major op 12

• RCM Junior Department student Anthony Tat plays Rachmaninov's Prelude in G op 32 no 5

• RCM Junior Department student Dominic Doutney plays Balakirev's Islamey (Oriental Fantasy) op 18

• LLMW student Wu Siyu plays Tchaikovsky's Children's Album op 39

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Andras Schiff Masterclass at the Royal College of Music

On Sunday 10 March, the Royal College of Music was delighted to welcome Andras Schiff for a masterclass with leading RCM pianists. 

The event formed part of the RCM's ever-popular annual keyboard festival, which in 2013 featured music from around the world.

Pavel Kolesnikov
Beethoven Sonata in C sharp minor 'Moonlight'

Kausikan Rajeshkumar
Beethoven Sonata in E flat op 31 no 3 (1:01:31)

Anna Fedorova
Beethoven Sonata in F minor op 57 'Appassionata' (2:10:09)

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The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works - TTC Video Lectures

 

WEB-Rip | WMV | WMV3 @ 2 Mbit/s | 640x360 | WMA Stereo @ 128 Kbit/s 48 KHz | 20 Hours | 16.5 GB
Genre: Classical Music, Piano Lessons | Language: English | PDF Included
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WEB-Rip | WMV | WMV3 @ 2 Mbit/s | 640x360 | WMA Stereo @ 128 Kbit/s 48 KHz | 20 Hours | 16.5 GB
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Genre: Classical Music, Piano Lessons | Language: English | PDF Included
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The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works - TTC Audio Lectures

The piano is the most popular solo concert instrument in Western music. One of the key reasons is the fact that it has inspired many of the greatest masterpieces in the concert repertoire. To study these masterworks and to understand their genius and lasting appeal is to know one of the greatest accomplishments of Western culture, works that give great pleasure even as they deepen your insight into the meaning of music.The 23 works you'll study are carefully chosen to highlight the most important compositional and pianistic achievements in the solo piano tradition.
These 24 enthralling lectures by Professor Greenberg take you through more than 200 years of piano music. Beginning with the monumental figure of Bach, followed by Mozart and Beethoven, you experience the piano music of such 19th-century masters as Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, before moving forward to visionary modernists including Scriabin, Debussy, and Prokofiev. Each lecture presents a single work in a fresh, accessible encounter with its musical substance, welcoming listeners new to concert music as well as experienced concert music lovers.In addition to your study of the music, the lectures treat you to a rich panorama of music history. You dig deeply into the artistic and cultural environments that the compositions reflect, shedding light on what inspired these great works and how they were written. As a third layer of the course, you delve into the fascinating history of the piano itself, uncovering the ways in which the evolution of the instrument directly influenced the music that composers wrote for it.

The Chopin Experience - Piano Tutorials - BBC R3

For Radio 3's Chopin Experience the pianist, teacher and broadcaster David Owen Norris has filmed 3 video piano tutorials. The videos focus on two of Chopin's well-known piano pieces, and are aimed at amateur pianists and those still learning. From advice on how to play Chopin on modern pianos, to tips on pedalling, fingering, rhythm and interpretation, they offer valuable insights into playing Chopin's music.

Chamber Music Of Mozart - TTC Video & Audio Lectures

 

What made Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart perhaps the most complete "musical package" in history—a man who created more masterpieces of virtually every musical genre of his day than any other composer before or since? There is perhaps no better way to explore this question than

by studying his chamber music. Nowhere is Mozart's maturity and mastery more apparent than in the chamber music he wrote during the last 10 years of his life.

Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music - TTC Video & Audio Lectures

Yale Courses - Professor Craig Wright

1. Fugue - Bach, Bizet and Bernstein.

2. Sonata-Allegro Form Mozart and Beethoven

3. Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations (cont.)

Craig Wright received the degree Bachelor of Music in piano and music history at the Eastman School of Music (1966) and a Ph.D. in musicology at Harvard (1972), and since 1973 has taught at Yale University where he is currently the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music. At Yale, Wright's courses include his perennially popular introductory course "Listening to Music" and his selective seminar "Exploring the Nature of Genius." During the summers he has led several Yale Alumni tours to France, Germany, and Italy. Among his six books are Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris (1989), Music in Western Civilization (2005), Listening to Music (6th edition, 2011), and Listening to Western Music (2007). He is presently at work on a volume entitled Mozart's Brain: Exploring the Nature of Genius. In 2004 Wright was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters by the University of Chicago.

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas by Jonathan Biss

Мастерклассы (аудио) - Г.Нейгауз, Т.Гутман, Е.Либерман, В.Тиличеев, Ю.Понизовкин, Л.Брумберг, А.Ведерников

 

Этот сборник - галерея ярких портретов Г.Нейгауза и его учеников, педагогов-гнесинцев, за плечами каждого из которых огромный опыт работы, индивидуальная педагогическая концепция. Г.Нейгауз, Т.Гутман, В.Тиличеев, Е.Либерман, Л.Брумберг, А.Ведерников, Ю.Понизовкин предстанут перед читателем не только в статьях. Их бесценные исполнительские рекомендации и советы, сопровождаемые собственными исполнениями, можно услышать "вживую" - на приложенном к изданию компакт-диске MP3 (более трех часов звучания). Содержание компакт-диска MP3 1. Ф.Шопен. Баллада 4 (ор. 52) фа минор. Урок Г.Г.Нейгауза с Э.Елинайте. Запись 1962 г. 2. Л.Бетховен. Соната 18 (ор. 31 3), ч. I. Исполнительский комментарий Т.Д.Гутмана. Запись нач. 1960-х гг. 3. Д.Шостакович. Прелюдии ор. 34 6, 12, 17, 15, 22. Исполнительский комментарий Е.Я.Либермана. Запись 1961 г. 4. П.Чайковский. Цикл "Времена года". 1 "У камелька. Январь". Исполнитель и автор комментариев В.Ю.Тиличеев. Запись 1962 г. 5. А.Скрябин. Поэма ор. 32 1. Исполнитель и автор комментариев Ю.В.Понизовкин. Запись 1961 г. 6. Л.Бетховен. Соната 21 (ор. 53), ч. I. Исполнительский комментарий Л.Е.Брумберга. Запись 1963 г. 7. К.Дебюсси. Двенадцать этюдов. 1,4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12. Исполнитель А.И.Ведерников. Запись сер. 50-х гг.

The Art of Piano (2011) - Documentary video

The Golden Age of the Piano (David Dubai) - Documantary video

Bach Performance on the Piano (A Lecture-Rectial by Angela Hewitt) & Angela Hewitt Live in Concert - 2008

Hyperion produced this two-disc DVD set as part of Miss Hewitt's 07/08 Bach World Tour (bachworldtour). It is shot on location at the Fazioli piano factory in Italy (Hewitt highly favors these pianos). Even if you are purely a listener, this nicely done production will take you to a new depth of discovery and appreciation into the legendary music of Bach and Angela Hewitt.
        Disc 1 (148 min) is instructional with Hewitt demonstrating various techniques, strategies and advice in 7 chapters (see list below). I suppose it is something akin to her Bach master's classes. She uses numerous musical motiff examples from the WTC and much of Bach's keyboard repertoire to show what she means. These alone are endlessly fascinating to watch the pianist's ease, fluidity and nuance. She often compares to how an amatuer would play it ... and of course how the she would approach it. One is immediately impressed with Hewitt's love and discipline with this music. She is also a great educator, weaving both technical detail and personal stories in the lessons. The camera work is quite good, showing at a slight angle from the right the keyboard work of both hands up close. Up this close, you can see just how strong her steel-spring-like fingers are for playing Bach like she does! Of course she makes it look effortlessly.
          Disc 2 (62 minutes) is a live performance at the Fazioli factory auditorium - where of course she plays an absolutely gorgeous Fazioli Concert Grand. These pianos are noted for their super-fast action, complex yet brilliant and clear harmonics and the addition of a special, forth pedal for enhanced dynamic shading. Of course she makes Bach sing and sound beautiful on it. The camera work again is good allowing one to see most of the action unhindered, although at times of sections of fast passagework (like in the chromatic fantasy/fugue) the camera is more on the pianist than the keyboard. The sound is rich and full as is her playing, making for an impressive concert.

Decisions Performers Must Face in Studying Beethoven`s Piano Sonatas - Stewart Gordon

Beethoven's Shadow by Jonathan Biss, read by Jeff Woodman - Audiobook

The American pianist Jonathan Biss is known to audiences throughout the world for his artistry, musical intelligence and deeply felt interpretations. What is less known until now is that Jonathan Biss writes about music in a most compelling and engaging way. For anyone who has ever enjoyed a Beethoven concert or a Beethoven recording or one of the many films about Beethoven, this audiobook is an inspiring listening experience. For those of you who have heard Beethoven in concert or listened to a Beethoven recording, Jonathan Biss takes you behind the scenes of those performances. If your musical interests are much broader than Beethoven or if your interests focus on the creative process , this will fully engage you. "On April 24th, 2007, Beethoven's Sonata Opus 109 made me lose my mind." So Jonathan Biss opens this book. He goes on to describe the complex and by no means all positive impact of the technology of the recording process on the experience of performing and listening to music. He also describes the legacy of generations of teachers. You are there when Leon Fleisher teaches Jonathan Biss just as Artur Schnabel taught Leon Fleisher before him. You experience the growth of a talented young musician as he becomes a fully mature artist. Most compelling of all, Jonathan Biss creates an almost spiritual introduction to the making and experiencing of music. He has, in effect, invited the reader into the world of the composer and the performer. Jonathan Biss includes an annotated audio guide to deepen the experience of anyone who enjoys listening to classical music. It is an unforgettable experience. Jonathan Biss has recently begun a nine year project of recording all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas.

Мария Гринберг исполняет и комментирует сонаты Бетховена - Maria Grinberg plays and comments Beethoven sonatas (in Russian)

The Concerto - TTC Video & Audio lectures (Professor Robert Greenberg)

      In this series of 24, 45-minute lectures, Professor Robert Greenberg gives you a guided tour of the concerto from its conception as a child of Renaissance ideals, through its maturation in the Classical age, its metamorphosis in the Romantic era, and its radical transformation in the 20th century. The course closes with a look into the future at concerto composers who are now in mid-career and poised to carry this vibrant musical tradition well into the 21st century.
      These lectures are musically rich, including selections from nearly 100 concerti representing more than 60 composers—from Gabrieli to Gershwin, from Schumann to Shostakovich.
      Along with the bedrock of the repertoire, represented by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Bartok, and many others, you will be introduced to superb concerti by Hummel, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Moszkowski, Paderewski, Ginastera, and other less-familiar masters.

A master class with András Schiff at the Jerusalem Music Center

A master class with András Schiff at the Jerusalem Music Center with student Ariel Lanyi (15 y.o.)
András Schiff was the guest of the JMC and of the Aldwell Center at the Conservatory of the Jerusalem Academy of Music. As a special project, the Aldwell Center focuses this year on Book Two of the Well-Tempered Clavier. András Schiff devoted four days to this project, starting with a recital in which he played the entire second book of the WTC, followed by three days of master classes in which students played selected preludes and fugues. The initiator of the WTC project was Murray Perahia, President of the JMC, who attended all the master classes. So as you watch the video, picture that it is not only AS who sits in judgment but also MP, (Annotation by Ariel Lanyi )