Pianist

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If there’s one video you should watch in order to learn how to sit correctly at the piano, it’s Khatia Buniatishvili’s YouTube performance of the fiendishly difficult Liszt/Horowitz Rhapsody No 2. What incredible posture! So upright, so grounded, so

Answer the question below correctly, and you could be one of three lucky winners to receive this handy, pocket-size diary full of musical information. Deadline for entries: 22 January 2021 Which composer wrote a set of 12 solo piano pieces depicting

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According to author Jessica Duchen, it appears so. In her latest book, Immortal, Duchen delves deep into the secrets behind a love letter written in Beethoven’s handwriting that was found after his death. Who is the subject of this love letter, then?

Which would you choose? Korg’s ‘tiny’ 25-note battery-powered piano measuring 15 inches wide (below), or Steinway’s eye-catching limited-edition Lenny Kravitz grand – the latest from the Steinway collaboration workshop (right)? For a piano of such a

Choir leader John Rutter has transcribed eight of his favourite seasonal choral pieces for piano, designed for early intermediate-level players. The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album includes A Child’s Lullaby, Angels’ Carol and The Colours of Christ

In this article, I have chosen three pieces that we are featuring in the scores, coming up with some ideas that I hope will help focus and guide you as you practise them. Let’s dive straight in. This is the tenth and final piece from Book 1 of On an

Posture is a topic that is probably never too far from a piano teacher’s lips. Maintaining a good posture has as much to do with our ongoing ‘piano health’ as our control of the instrument itself. While a well-considered seating position enables a co

MELANIE SPANSWICK is a pianist, writer, teacher and composer. As an author, she is published by leading publishing houses, and has written a three-book piano course for those returning to piano playing; Play It Again: PIANO (Schott Music). Melanie te

Key G minor Tempo Poco Lento Style Late Romantic Will improve your ✓Phrasing ✓Legato ✓Finger substitution technique This piece sounds like a beautiful Christmas carol. Featuring a wistful melody, it hails from Cesar Franck’s L’Organiste, a collection

Key D flat major Tempo Musingly Style Romantic Will improve your ✓Pedalling ✓Chord voicing ✓Balance between hands The majority of MacDowell’s published works span a period of just under 20 years. During this time, he went from being a relatively unkn

Key A flat Tempo Valse Style Romantic Will improve your ✓Waltz style ✓Phrasing ✓Inner voice projection Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons is a cycle of 12 piano pieces written in 1875-76. Each highly descriptive piece depicts a different month of the year. I’

On these pages, Pianist covers the most basic stages of learning the piano through a series of lessons by Hans-Günter Heumann. This lesson features a two-page exercise that will help you become accustomed to playing legato and staccato at the same ti

‘I have a recurring nightmare that I am in the middle of an important concert, playing to a huge crowd… and I suddenly stop, seize up and panic! Will this happen?’ As both piano teacher and parent, this frightening confession has been shared with me

Beethoven: Piano Concerto 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite etc Seiji Ozawa/Mito Chamber Orchestra Decca 485 0592 How many times has Martha Argerich recorded Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 2? I am not sure I have the energy to trawl the catalogue to find the an

ISMN: 978-0-85736-914-7 (Initial); -915-4 (1); -916-1 (2); -917-8 (3); -918-5 (4); -919-2 (5); -920-8 (6); -921-5 (7); -922-2 (8) Trinity’s new piano syllabus covers the same graded levels as its previous iterations – an Initial grade followed by Gra