There are now two Gabriella Montero podcasts available; you can also subscribe to them through Itunes (where I found them).
She says in the first that no one before her had ever made a totally improvised piano recording. Keith Jarrett might take exception to that. Perhaps she meant no classical pianist ever [...]
The eminent pianist, scholar, and author Charles Rosen was on the DePauw campus this past weekend to give a lecture and recital. Nearly 80, he plays beautifully and more important interestingly, and once warmed up continues to have amazing technical facility.
The lecture was, to me, fascinating, and to some others difficult to follow, if [...]
Eric Barnhill has recently posted two interesting sets on his “Daily Improvisation” piano blog. Chopin, with improvised interludes, and also Mozart’s extremely simple published cadenza for Piano Concerto No. 23, K 488, and two of his own.
As Eric explains quite well, it is very unlikely that Mozart himself would have performed something as elementary [...]
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