»Rarities of Piano Music« at Husum Castle
Under the artistic direction of pianist Peter Froundjian, the one-week festival has been taking place in August in Husum Castle every year since 1987. The aim is to draw the public’s attention to works that, despite their high quality, have not found their way into the current piano repertoire. The “Rarities of Piano Music” consist of nine concerts, a matinee and an exhibition. Through the production of a live CD (at the Danish label “Danacord”) a selection of the works played is distributed worldwide.
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Date: 19th of June 2025
Rarities of Piano music on the radio and livestream concert
German radio station “Deutschlandfunk Kultur” will be recording the following recitals:
Mark Viner. Broadcasting: live (time-delayed) 22nd of August from 8.00 pm
Illia Ovcharenko: Broadcasting: 28th of August from 8.00 pm
The recorded concerts by Deutschlandfunk Kultur will then be available for 30 days on the web and in the DLF-app
http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
Herbert Schuch´s piano recital on August 19 will be broadcasted live on the Internet via YouTube channel of Stiftung North Frisia.
You´ll find the link to the livestream here on concert day.
Date: 05th of March 2025
Festivalprogramme 2025
39th “Rarities of Piano music” 16th-23th of August
The 2025 festival program has been published. Look forward to unknown piano works by Ukrainian composers Sergej Bortkiewicz, Levko Revutsky and Boris Ljatoschinsky, works by Adolph Henselt, Carl Baermann Jr. and Anton Eberl, a contemporary and rival of Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna and many newly discovered treasures of piano literature.
Subscriptions will be available starting March 25th. Ticket sales for members of association of friends start on April 8th.
Single tickets are available online and at all known ticket offices from April 29th.
Where connoisseurs respect experts.
Le Paradis du pianophile est en Allemagne. – Un festival certainement unique au monde.
In not one of its recitals will you hear a note of the Standard repertoire. It’s not that the great masters are not revered – far from it. The people who come to Husum love the piano in all its guises.
Find out more about the festival in the book "Beyond the mainstream"
It would be superficial to consider the “Rarities of Piano Music” as “just another festival”, since from the start it understood itself as a necessary addition to the seasonal musical life in the cities. When Bryce Morrison writes in “Gramophone”: “What would we do without the annual Husum Festival?” it expresses the status of indispensability that has now been achieved.