»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: 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. The link to the live stream will be available here on the website on the day of the event.
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.