by Barry Lenson | Apr 13, 2025 | Piano Music, Sean Hickey, Vladimir Rumyantsev
By Barry Lenson Sean Hickey’s epic solo piano work, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, in eight sections, is based on the book of the same name, written by Noah Harari. Sean’s Sapiens is played commandingly in a new recording by pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev,...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 23, 2018 | German Romantic Music, Piano Music, Robert Schumann
Many works of classical music have easy-to-pronounce names. There are Papillons (Schumann), Aida (Verdi) and other pieces that have mellifluous names that roll right off the tongue. Then we come to Faschingsschwank aus Wien (roughly translated, “Carnival Pieces from...
by Barry Lenson | Oct 13, 2017 | Dinu Lipatti, Piano Music
For years, lovers of great pianism have been listening to recordings by Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950), the poetic Romanian pianist who succumbed to Hodgkin’s Disease at the age of only 33. If you have already fallen in love with his recordings and have been wanting more,...
by Barry Lenson | Aug 3, 2017 | Piano Music, Robert Schumann, Uncategorized
Let’s start by watching Sviatoslav Richter play the living daylights of this piece. Many works of classical music have easy-to-pronounce names. There are Papillons (Schumann), Aida (Verdi) and other pieces that have mellifluous names that roll right off the...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 2, 2017 | Piano Music, Uncategorized, Violin Music
It has been nearly six months since I downloaded and started to investigate DakApp, a new app for serious students of classical music. DakApp is one remarkable resource for students. In today’s post, I would like to explain what it is and why it belongs on the...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 7, 2016 | holiday music, Piano Music, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Steinway Pianos, Uncategorized
Here is Jeffrey Biegel delivering holiday magic in “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson. Pure happiness . . . what a perfect way to begin today’s post! I recently wrote a post on this blog about pianist Stewart Goodyear’s CD of his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s...
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