On My New Piano

Featuring

Daniel Barenboim
Domenico Scarlatti
Ludwig van Beethoven
Frédéric Chopin
Franz Liszt

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The new piano's design also includes a wooden soundboard with veins going in different directions, specially designed bridges, ribs, and bracings, and repositioned hammers and yellow brass strings.

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Barenboim's inspiration for his new piano came in September 2011 after playing on Franz Liszt's restored grand piano in Siena.

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Daniel Barenboim conceived and commissioned a new piano, which he unveiled in May 2015, after dreaming about it since 2011.

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The new piano aims to combine the evenness of touch, stability, and power of a modern instrument with the transparent sound quality and distinguishable color registers of Liszt's 200-year-old piano.

Recording & Production

This album is Daniel Barenboim's first solo recording using his new piano, for which he chose a repertoire of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt.

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As of the booklet's writing, only two examples of the new Barenboim piano exist, both belonging to Daniel Barenboim, and each took 18 months and 4,000 people-hours to build.

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Barenboim's new piano, designed by Belgian instrument maker Chris Maene, features straight parallel strings instead of the diagonal-crossed ones found in contemporary pianos.