Rarities of piano music

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The rarities of piano music are a classical music festival , which takes place annually in August in Schloss vor Husum . The founder and director of the festival since 1987 has been the Berlin pianist Peter Froundjian . Since then, more than 2,000 rarely played piano works have been performed.

Festival setup

The course of the music festival follows a core framework in development every year. It initially consists of eight concert evenings. Seldom played compositions are performed on these in the knight's hall. There is also a matinee and an exhibition on a piano theme on site in the foyer of the palace.

In the meantime more than 150 pianists have given concerts in Husum. The pianists rehearse a program which, due to its peculiarity, they can (almost) only play in Husum, which is rather unusual in today's concert business. For this reason, a high level of commitment from the pianists is required. Experience shows that they encounter an unusually knowledgeable and interested audience. The combination of idealism and masterful piano playing on the part of the pianists and a particularly open-mindedness of the audience lead to intense concert experiences.

The publication of the accompanying program is deliberately kept extensive. It is intended to provide the interested listener with detailed information about composers, performing artists and the works performed.

Individual concert evenings are recorded. They are published by the Danish music label Danacord Records. With the production of a live CD, a selection of the works that were played became more popular. 2011 a book with background information about the festival is also entitled Beyond the mainstream (English Edition Beyond the Mainstream ) published. The festival “Rarities of Piano Music” is unique in the world due to its special program and attracts music lovers from all over the world. The organizers are the District of North Friesland and the North Friesland Foundation.

Objective of the festival

In Husum you can hear seldom played, but challenging piano music. The declared aim of this festival is to concentrate on piano works which, although of high quality, have not found their way into the standard repertoire. In the book Beyond the Mainstream , the initiator and artistic director of the festival, Peter Froundjian, describes how the idea of ​​founding a festival came about:

“The castle in front of Husum should be my new place of work, a simple brick building with a characteristic tower and a thoroughly historical aura that pervades the interior of the castle. Until then, I had never thought of founding a festival. But the encounter with the castle and its knight's hall gave rise to a vision in my head that seemed realizable. As part of a week-long festival, I imagined, one could leave certain well-worn tracks in musical life that apparently obey certain unwritten laws, break prejudices, and make programs more varied and thus more exciting. If such a festival could contribute to a differentiated view of music and could make works that one might only have read about in passing, can be experienced 'live' in concert, a lot would be gained. [...] I almost felt the need for some kind of work to come to terms with it after a 20th century over which the course of time had literally stormed off. There are many reasons why compositions are being forgotten, why composers - in the piano music genre even outright piano composers - have fallen out of the consciousness of the musical public. These do not necessarily have to do with poor quality, but on the one hand with zeitgeist tendencies in favor of an alleged progressiveness, but in no small part with personal fates and political, sociological or historical developments. "

- Peter Froundjian

Performing pianists

Renowned international pianists are regularly engaged, e.g. B. Artur Pizarro , Marc-André Hamelin or Håvard Gimse . A complete list in alphabetical order of the pianists from 1987–2012 can be found here. The year in brackets is the year of the performance.

A.

B.

C.

  • Sylvie Carbonel (1994)
  • Roberto Cappello (1993, 1995 and 1997)
  • Frederic Chiu (1997 and 1999)
  • Roberto Cominati (2000)

D.

  • Michal Dalberto (1998)

E.

F.

  • Janina Fialkowska (1998)
  • Sergio Fiorentino (1993)
  • Bengt Forsberg (1990)
  • Philip Fowke (1988 and 1995)
  • Peter Froundjian (1987 to 1989, 1996, 2003 and 2008)

G

H

J

K

  • Igor Kamenz (2004)
  • Cyprien Katsaris (2003 and 2006)
  • Nina Kavtaradze (1993)
  • Rainer M. Klaas (1987 to 1989)
  • Benedikt Koehlen (1990)
  • Anton Kuerti (1995 and 1997)
  • Elena Kuschnerova (2003 and 2004)

L.

M.

  • Geoffrey Douglas Madge (1990)
  • Oleg Marshev (1994 and 1998)
  • Yuri Martinov (1997)
  • Voytek Matushevski (1991)
  • Frédéric Meinders (1999, 2001 and 06)
  • Hamish Milne (1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2000 and 2006)
  • Gabriela Montero (2006)
  • Joseph Moog (2012)

N

O

  • Steven Osborne (2002)

P

  • Enrico Pace (2001 and 2002)
  • Denis Pascal (2008 and 2009)
  • Alfredo Perl (2001)
  • Artur Pizarro (1996, 2009 and 2011)
  • Jonathan Plowright (2003, 2004, 2006 and 2009)
  • Michael Ponti (1987 and 1989)
  • Roland Pöntinen (2005, 2008 and 2011)
  • Jonathan Powell (2004, 2007, 2009 and 2011)

R.

  • Abdel Rahman El Bacha (1996)
  • Bernard Ringsisen (1992 and 1993)
  • Eliane Rodrigues (2009)
  • Sandro Russo (2012)
  • Hubert Rutkowski (2012)

S.

T

  • Hiroaki Takenouchi (2007 and 2010)
  • Claudius Tanski (1990)
  • Seta Tanyel (1995 and 2003)
  • Igor Tchetuev (2011)
  • Amir Tebenikhin (2012)
  • Nina Tichman (1988 and 2009)
  • François-Joël Thiollier (2007)

U

V

  • Lev Vinocour (2008)
  • Nadejda Vlaeva (2006 and 2011)
  • Franz Vorraber (1998)

W.

  • Nicholas Walker (1999 and 2002)
  • Janice Weber (1990 and 2009)
  • Peter Westenholz (1988)

The festival venue

The venue is the 160-seat knight's hall in the palace in front of Husum .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DeutschlandRadio Kultur, October 16, 2011 (accessed November 27, 2011)
  2. ↑ from Beyond the Mainstream , Staccato Verlag 2011, p. 26
  3. ↑ nmz-Online (accessed November 27, 2011)