Mozart, Schumann & Using Arm Weight
In this month’s practice clinic, Graham Fitch answers questions pedalling, tricky arpeggios, using arm-weight and playing legato in works by Mozart, Schumann, Liszt.
Schubert, Liszt and Structuring a Practice Session
In this month’s practice clinic, Graham Fitch answered questions on works by Schubert, Liszt, Couperin and Chopin. Topics discussed included time management, building speed and evenness.
Chopin, Liszt, Jumps and Chords
Our latest Practice Clinic recording features answers to questions on chords, developing speed, pedalling and jumps in works by Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn and Liszt.
Pedalling by Hand
I first published this article in 2016. Now that I have made a new video demonstrating the differences between the Couperin piece in his original notation versus what we see…
Hold Me, I’m a Fermata!
Following on from last week's post on rests, I'm going to move on to the fermata - or the pause. We find this marked on rests as well as on…
Freshen it Up
Ideas for freshening up an interpretation of a piece by playing in different styles.
Memory Tips: Analyse
We can trace the tradition of playing solo piano music from memory back to Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann. Before that, it was inappropriate to play without a score in…
Don’t Play!
We tend to think of sitting at the piano and practising totally in terms of making sounds. If we’re not moving our fingers up and down, we’re not really practising,…
Freedom in Interpretation
...what bestows upon the performer the status of artist and on the performance the status of art, is the real, full-bloodied possibility of the performer finding a better or at…
To Stop Or Not To Stop?
I recall an infuriating time with a house guest who found herself confined to the kitchen while I was practising in the living room. Every time she heard the playing…