Moscow pianists tended towards a muscular clarity and strong willed emphasis on power and projection. |
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Do the greatest pianists really play with the soft pedal down almost all the time? |
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But he has done an awful lot to open the door for jazz pianists and vocalists to cross over into the mainstream. |
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When playing fortissimo, pianists should remember that volume is not a function of weight alone. |
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The basement is where the celebrity pianists go to pick out a Steinway for their recording sessions, concerts, TV shows. |
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Sebastian had helped train several organists and pianists during a career that spanned over 40 years. |
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He was one of the most successful pianists of his era, and certainly the most highly paid. |
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It's not a work you find programmed or recorded a lot, although it has attracted many superb pianists. |
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Not many concert pianists can quote a major symphonist, let alone relate him to their world. |
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Selim Palmgren's works for solo piano evoke a similar atmosphere, and somehow Finnish pianists understand perfectly how to phrase his music. |
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His lackluster music making and routine pianism will hardly impress anyone who has heard far superior pianists of the same age. |
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Listening to great lieder singers influenced me more than other pianists because of the song element. |
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Lessons have enabled her to appreciate the great pianists and the master composers. |
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Many of our members are collaborative artists, either as pianists or vocalists. |
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Where power and speed were concerned, few pianists from the past century had a technique to match his. |
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Some pianists tend to perform Mendelssohn's two piano trios as though they were piano concertos. |
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They are both superb musicians and pianists able to infuse music with genuine, deeply felt expression. |
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Most important, both pianists splendidly bring out the harmonic adventure of the pieces. |
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It is said that the world's greatest pianists attended Horowitz concerts to witness his legendary feats at the keyboard. |
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This article also touches on how knowledge of the piano's working can help pianists avoid physical injury. |
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What a thrill to see the looks of joy and hope on the faces of the small-handed pianists as they looked up at their professors and peers. |
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This is an excellent resource for piano pedagogy classes and for pianists interested in wellness issues. |
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In general, however, the fantasia became a potpourri of themes from operas compiled by virtuoso pianists as display pieces. |
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Unlike most instrumentalists, pianists must perform on whatever instrument is made available to them. |
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Other pianists cringed when I shared Nagy's fingering suggestions for splitting a difficult passage between two hands. |
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If German pianists have a reputation for being cold fish, this reputation is belied by playing such as this. |
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Attaining an ideal balance of voices in strictly polyphonic textures is one of the greatest challenges pianists face. |
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Apparently Tilson Thomas and Grierson were the first pianists to record this reduction. |
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The pedal plays a large role in creating a musical perception of legato, and for small-handed pianists, it is indispensable. |
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Up to eighteen pianists will advance to the semifinal round, where each will present a program of no more than twenty minutes. |
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Many professional pianists avoid it due to the astounding technical difficulties it poses. |
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The studios have pianists and sometimes drummers or other musicians who improvise as the dancers dance. |
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Bands of that era also featured great pianists, bassists, trumpeters, flautists, violinists, and occasional saxophonists. |
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In America, I have to cope with tone-deaf cocktail pianists with fire-retardant toupees. |
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The pianists sight-read two melodies to establish their preferred performing rate. |
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The unrushed tempo of the toccata-like Vivace final movement allowed Ohlsson to tap into the deep well of sound few pianists are able to access. |
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Professional woodwind players such as flautists, clarinettists, oboists are in general more skilled in this regard than violinists, pianists and accordion players. |
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With the invention of the transportable keyboard, pianists may own their keyboards, which can be installed in any piano of a given make and model. |
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The very greatest pianists possess, by some alchemy which combines technique with some unknown elements, a personal sound which is easily recognizable. |
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The backdrop is a seedy, exciting and evocative Auckland, with characters ranging from gang members, wealthy and elite crims, concert pianists, farmers, hippies and neo-Nazis. |
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For the last three decades, he has garnered justifiable praise as one of best pianists in jazz. |
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These two Sligo ladies are both classically trained pianists, but their superb voices, and outstanding vocal arrangements are even more impressive. |
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Flutists are asked to sing through their instruments, pianists are asked to whistle and moan, and instrumental scores are visually twisted into circles or cruciforms. |
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Despite her small stature, she is a giant among concert pianists. |
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My advice to other pianists is to gear such matters to a purpose, but after playing scales endlessly for a week that problematical arpeggio in the score can still sound awful! |
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Today's pianists must work with plastic, wood, felt,, copper, iron and steel to make all kinds of sounds ranging from delicate pianissimos to robust fortissimos. |
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The general public has never paid much attention to his music, but other pianists know what this man can do at the keyboard. |
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It's much easier to appreciate the virtuosity of the pianists, to be sure. |
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The pianists, one German, the other Lithuanian, take turn and turn about, and the first five works alternate between violin and piano and piano trio. |
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By the numbers, that's two Steinway concert grand pianos, and seven pianists. |
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Table IV shows that the pianists were significantly better on both motor and perceptual timing than the nonpianists. |
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Suggested fingerings for navigating widely spaced arpeggiations could have been helpful for pianists with small hands. |
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Of the great romantic pianists, Vladimir Horowitz and Serkin are the only ones still actively concertizing. |
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Few other pianists would have the courage to open their recital with Bach's six-part Ricercare from the Musical Offering. |
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The Amateurs Program began in 1996 for nonprofessional pianists who love music, but make a living through other professions. |
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After writing two octets for flutes and horns, he now has a commission coming up for eight pianists. |
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I listened mostly to trumpeters and saxophonists more than pianists. |
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Here, too, in three suites and a chaconne, Perahia reveals a strong affinity for music few pianists embrace. |
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In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists. |
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Few pianists play the instrument so beautifully, so lovingly, so musicianly in manner, and with such regard for its real nature and its enormous literature. |
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For example, he advises pianists who play primarily Mozart and Beethoven to retune their instruments in a system that those composers might have used. |
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Its origins are hazy, but anecdotes suggest a nineteenth-century genesis among unschooled pianists in saloons and barrelhouses in Southern lumber and turpentine camps. |
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