»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: 30th of August 2024
Encores and “Rarities of Piano Music” August 16-23, 2025
The encores of this year’s festival can be found here and at the menu item “Programme”.
The next “Rarities of Piano Music” festival will take place from August 16-23, 2025. The program will be published on the festival website in mid-March 2025.
Until then, you can experience two concerts of this year’s rarities of piano music on the Internet and on the radio:
The livestream of Patrick Hemmerlé’s recital can be found on the Nordfriesland Foundation’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/live/ODcAsmN_aFk
On October 3, 2024, the recording of Gottlieb Wallisch’s piano evening can be heard on Deutschlandfunk Kultur from 8:03 p.m.
Date: 9th of August 2024
Rarities of Piano music on the radio
German radio station “Deutschlandfunk Kultur” will be recording the following recitals:
Friday, 23rd of August: Chiyan Wong. Broadcasting: live (time-delayed) 23rd of August from 8.03 pm
Saturday, 24th of August: Gottlieb Wallisch. Broadcasting: 3rd of October from 8.03 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
Date: 21st of June 2024
Livestream concert
Patrick Hemmerlé´s piano recital on August 19 will be broadcasted live on the Internet via a YouTube channel.
Here you find the link to the livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/ODcAsmN_aFk
Date: 05th of March 2024
Festivalprogramme 2024
38th “Rarities of Piano music” 17th-24th of August
The 2024 festival program has been published. Look forward to two complete cycles (“Java Suite” by Leopold Godowsky and Franz Liszt’s cycle “Harmonies poétiques et religieuses”) and many newly discovered treasures of piano literature.
Subscriptions will be available starting March 19th. Ticket sales for members of association of friends start on April 2nd.
Single tickets are available online and at all known ticket offices from April 16th.
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.