Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 10: Off Again and On Again
- Saturday, May 31, 2025
'Aristo Sham displayed a sensitivity and genuine collaborative spirit throughout the A major Concerto, K488'
Features
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 9: From Mozart's Concertos to Mussorgsky's Pictures
- Friday, May 30, 2025
'Jonas Aumiller opened his recital with the best Bach-Busoni D major Organ Prelude and Fugue, BWV532, I’ve heard in concert since the salad days of Marc-André Hamelin and Sergio Fiorentino'
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 8: ‘I want to play like that!’
- Thursday, May 29, 2025
'Aristo Sham’s march rhythms in the final piece were akin to a chorus line of lightning bolts'
Sebastião Salgado: 'My concept of the world was made by music'
- Wednesday, May 28, 2025
The Brazilian photographer on how his concept of the world was made by music
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 7: Van Cliburn the pianist
- Wednesday, May 28, 2025
A rest day in the competition gives Jed Distler time to reflect on Van Cliburn – American icon, cultural ambassador, and formidably gifted pianist
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 6: Flashback to 2005's competition
- Tuesday, May 27, 2025
This year's competitors have a rest day, so Jed Distler looks back 20 years to The Cliburn medallists of 2005: Sa Chen, Joyce Yang and Alexander Kobrin
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 5: Getting serious with some heavy-hitters
- Monday, May 26, 2025
'The freedom and sheer fun that Chaeyoung Park conveyed in Brahms’s Paganini Variations, Book 2, almost made me forget about her effortless technical mastery'
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 4: The Quarter-finals begin
- Sunday, May 25, 2025
'Carter Johnson’s jaunty groove in the first movement abounded in playfulness and propulsion'
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 3: New Voices and Familiar Faces
- Saturday, May 24, 2025
'Not one note fell under the table, not one phrase emerged without meaning'. Jed Distler finds at least one marvellous set in today's Cliburn Competition Preliminaries
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 2: Playing what they love
- Friday, May 23, 2025
'Not since Alfred Cortot and, more recently, Francesca Libetta have I heard Saint-Säens served up with such boundless imagination and character, not to mention transcendental virtuosity'
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 1: Off to the races
- Thursday, May 22, 2025
The 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gets underway with performances from Xuanxiang Wu, Carter Johnson, Federico Gad Crema and more
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Vonn Vanier: a composer to watch
- Monday, May 19, 2025
An assured debut album from this phenom in Jackson Hole shows his unusual route to composing has paid off
Cliburn Competition medallists: 10 recommended recordings
- Monday, May 19, 2025
10 outstanding albums from 10 Cliburn Competition medalists, including Yunchan Lim, Beatrice Rana, Radu Lupu and Yeol Eum Son
The music my dad left behind: an unexpected journey through grief
- Monday, May 19, 2025
'We were creating a new world together that wasn’t quite the old one, and both Albéniz and my dad had led me there'
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge: a tradition for today
- Friday, May 16, 2025
As Christopher Gray records his first album with the choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, he tells Martin Cullingford about how music both past and present enriches its sound
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