What if some of the skills we treat as peripheral to piano playing are actually capable of transforming it? Lona Kozik explores how ear training, harmony, analysis and other aspects of musicianship can change the way we hear, understand, learn and play music.
Our Practice Clinics return on 10 September Is there a passage that never seems to become secure, a technical problem you are not quite sure how to solve, or an…
Four new instalments take Step into “the 48” to 36 of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues. Explore the contrasting worlds of C major, G-sharp minor, D major and C-sharp major, with performances and practical insights from pianist and teacher Beate Toyka.
Rachmaninoff refused to reveal the subjects of his Études-Tableaux, Op. 33. New research suggests that the set moves from vivid images of the Russian landscape and a joyful spring thunderstorm to mourning, foreboding and war.
