When I started this blog, I promised to share with you things of my daily life that no one or few see. However, I haven’t showed you the place where I spend most of my time yet.

After a comment from Piano Agitato in the French version of “The record: a help or a hindrance to artistic creation?”, I have been thinking about the records that have really affected me. Today, I have decided to make a selection of five of these. The choice was hard to make, but I have finally selected them from those I have listened to the most.

I heard them play for the first time when I was fifteen: It has been a revelation. Sure, it was a recording. I wanted to hear them live, but Oistrakh left us in 1974, so a long time before I was born! Before this famous sonata for violin and piano, I did not like Brahms.

You may have noticed a big change here: this website has a new layout. Just a new layout? No, there is also new content of course!

When I was little, I dreamed of piano and of being big and knowing how to play well. Today I am big and I remember about these thoughts from childhood: some are true and some are far from reality.

Today, after a few days off for personal reasons, I’m going to talk about piano moving. Being pianist and moving is not always that simple. A piano is a very heavy piece requiring particular care.

I take this occasion to wish you all a happy New Year! This year will again bring its share of pleasant times. Long long time I haven’t been able to take rest. Two weeks ago, however, I finally took some days off: 7 days without piano… It did me a lot of good! These few [...]

So today I’d like to talk about memory and piano performance. A problem, which scares all of us, amateurs as professionals. Since Liszt, “the inventor” of modern recital, it has become compulsory to do without score on stage. Did Liszt had in mind that he was going to torment generations of pianists? I don’t hope so, but the result is here: we must play by heart.

It occurs to me that I haven’t dedicated a post to Brad Mehldau yet. Consider it done with this video from “resignation”, in which you can listen to the American Pianist playing in trio with Jorge Rossy and Larry Grenadier. Born in 1970 in Jacksonville, FL, Brad Mehldau recorded his first opus in 1995 for [...]