JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

Since then he has earned similar accolades from performances across the U.S., including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops, and the artist’s Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra in the world premiere of a new concerto by Sheila Silver.

In Europe, Paley played an important concert in Orlèans, in 2007, dedicated to Enescu, and was invited to the Opera Thèatre of Besancon and Lille Piano Festival for a special carte blanch. In 2008, he was invited for another carte blanche for a series of five concerts in the region of Amiens. In the 2008-9 season, Mr. Paley was a conductor and soloist with the Ensemble Orchestra de Paris at the Thèatre des Champs-Elysèes. His upcoming season includes performances with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and again with the Thèatre des Champs-Elysèes

Mr. Paley has recorded the complete solo piano works of Balakirev for ESS.A.Y., works by Scriabin and Weber for Naxos, and most recently Bach’s Goldberg-Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella suites for Blüthner Records. His recording of Anton Rubinstein’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 with the Russian State Orchestra is available on the Russian Disc Label. In September 2004, Paley recorded a CD with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, dedicated to the music of contemporary composer Jean-Louis Agobet, which received the Victoire de la Musique prize.

 

 

 

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche