»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.
News
As of 09/03/2023
Program 36th Rarities of Piano Music is released
New Program of the 36th edition of the “Rarities of Piano Music” has been released. From August 19th to 26th 2023 we invite you to Husum Castle and would be delighted to welcome you once again, or for the first time!
Single ticket sales will start op April 11, 2023. Tickets are available online, at all Reservix ticket offices and at the tickets office at Husum castle.
Subscriptions can be ordered from March 21st at the ticket office at Husum castle.
Sale for members of the association starts on April 4th, 2023.
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.