March 2021 – The Piano Files

Egon Petri at 140

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / March 23, 2021

The German-born Dutch pianist Egon Petri has been a favourite of mine from my earliest years of collecting records. The APR label had put out the bulk of his 78rpm recordings on three double-CD sets

An Introduction to Historical Piano Recordings

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / March 13, 2021

I was delighted to have been invited by the Ross McKee Foundation in San Francisco to present a filmed introduction to historical piano recordings. I was approached several months ago about the possibility of presenting

A Forgotten Genius: Muriel Kerr

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / March 4, 2021

One of the great joys of running my Facebook page for the last 11-plus years is coming across great pianists I’d never heard of. In the past one had to find a record in a

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Egon Petri at 140

An Introduction to Historical Piano Recordings

A Forgotten Genius: Muriel Kerr