Kristian Bezuidenhout has a passion for what he fondly calls "the old piano" — the fortepiano of Mozart's day, a smaller instrument than the modern one our ears and eyes are accustomed to experiencing ...

There have been fortepianists before Ronald Brautigam and Kristian Bezuidenhout upon whose shoulders those two might be said to stand. But none had managed so convincingly to bring the fortepiano into ...

Amazon mp3: $9 | Amazon CD: $11| ArkivMusic: $17 | Qobuz download: £7.99 | iTunes mp3: $10 Volume 4 of a new Mozart Piano Sonata cycle has appeared on the Oehms label and it is now apparent that they ...

When Kristian Bezuidenhout, then an undergraduate at the Eastman School of Music, decided to ditch the modern piano in favor of the fortepiano, he did so because he was, as he once put it, “crazily ...

Kristian Bezuidenhout is one of those players who can shock as well as enthrall. In the four works which open his new Mozart survey (the Fantasy C minor, K457, the Sonatas in F K533/K494 and B flat ...

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Classical music fans are used to hearing the keyboard music of Mozart and Beethoven performed on massive, seven-octave concert pianos, which were first introduced in the middle of the 19th century.

Mozart poses formidable challenges for modern pianists. Late 18th-century Viennese pianos resemble our contemporary instruments only on the most basic mechanical level. The way the hammers are ...

The other day, the keyboard player Kristian Bezuidenhout was standing onstage at Hertz Hall, on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in a state of slight panic. Around him were four ...

Using a fortepiano — the kind of instrument Mozart himself would have played — this lively artist explores rarely heard elements of the... Mozart's Character: Kristian Bezuidenhout Kristian ...