Музыкант и его руки: Физиологическая природа и формирование двигательной системы - В.Мазель - 2002

Впервые публикуется книга, специально посвященная проблеме поддержания рук музыканта в рабочем состоянии. Профилактика заболеваний, их лечение, связь костно-мышечного аппарата рук с состоянием позвоночника, с осанкой; система упражнений - вот содержание этой работы. Автор книги - педагог с большим преподавательским опытом.
Рекомендуется всем музыкантам-инструменталистам, учащимся и их родителям, педагогам.

Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition 2011 - Daniil Trifonov - Chopin, Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op.11

Daniil Trifonov, the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition laureate plays with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Asher Fisch: Chopin, Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11 - during the 2011 competition final stage

Chopin: Piano Concertos Warsaw 2010 - Nikolai Demidenko, Evgeny Kissin

Chopin often gets pegged, rightly or wrongly, as a composer who was really only at home on smaller canvasses. The common "wisdom" is that Chopin never was really comfortable in the orchestral idiom, and in fact the dearth of large scale material in his oeuvre may indeed support that position. But in terms of competence and facility, his two piano concerti are ample proof that orchestrally speaking he certainly had the compositional goods. While no one would accuse either of his large scale piano works of being overly innovative or even flashy in the orchestration department, they are both completely solid, commanding pieces that have rightly assumed their place in the piano concerto repertoire. Of course the piano solos are daunting and at times incredibly florid, full of the filigreed brilliance for which Chopin became rightly famous in his many smaller pieces for solo piano, but there's also fine attention paid, albeit often times in a relatively subtle way, to the interaction between the soloist and the accompanying orchestral elements. But as it should be, the piano is front and center in both of these pieces, and each concerto requires a pianist of formidable expertise, not just to handle the technical aspects, but to cull every last drop of emotion from Chopin's heart on his sleeve writing. Two radically different approaches are taken in this interesting Gala Concert celebrating the bicentenary of Chopin's birth in 1810.

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 )

Imagine Being a Concert Pianist - BBC Documentary (2005)

In July 2011, 19-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor made his debut at the Proms to great acclaim, wowing both audiences and critics with his performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major. The youngest ever soloist to perform in the First Night of the Proms, he returns to the Royal Albert Hall on August 6 to take on Britten's Piano Concerto. In 2005, Imagine discovered this musical prodigy in the making. Alan Yentob talked to the 12-year-old Grosvenor about his success the previous year, in the piano section of The Young Musician of The Year Competition. This is another chance to see that documentary.

Михаил Плетнев в передаче "В вашем доме" (вед. Святослав Бэлза)

Михаил Плетнев. Когда 1978 году Михаил Плетнев завоевал золотую медаль и первую премию на VI Международном конкурсе пианистов имени П. И. Чайковского, член жюри конкурса, замечательный американский пианист и педагог Ю. Лист сказал: «У Плетнева сильный музыкальный ум, широкое мировоззрение. Но это не значит, что он играет одним рассудком. У него есть тот баланс сердца и ума, который так необходим музыканту». Пианист с мировым именем рассказывает о своих педагогах, об учебе в Московской консерватории, гастрольных поездках.

Lives and Times of the Great Composers - M.Steen - 2004

A grand and panoramic biograhical history of the giants of classical music, The Lives and Times of Great Composers is a new, unique, and lovingly constructed modern reference--and a beguiling read which you will return to again and again. Interlinked yet self-contained, each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against the social, political, musical, and cultural background of the time. Read the story of Bach, the respectable burgher, much of whose vast output was composed amidst petty turf disputes in Luteran Leipzig; or the ugly, argumentative Beethoven, obsessed by his laundry; or Mozart, the over-exploited infant prodigy whose untimely death was shrouded in rumor; or the ghastly death of Donizetti and Smetana. Read about Verdi, who composed against the background of the Italian Risorgimento, or about the family life of the Wagners; and Brahms, who rose from the slums of Hamburg to become a devotee of beer and coffee in fin-de-siecle Vienna, a cultural capital bent on destroying Mahler.