Pieces to Play – Chopin, Schubert & Rachmaninoff!
The next instalment in our Pieces to Play series features features some of the most popular pieces from the classical piano repertoire by Beethoven, Debussy, Satie & Chopin!
The next instalment in our Pieces to Play series features features some of the most popular pieces from the classical piano repertoire by Beethoven, Debussy, Satie & Chopin!
This week’s blog post features an interview with pianist & teacher Beate Toyka discussing her approach to practising and learning pieces, with specific reference to her “Step into the 48” project on the Online Academy!
Three hundred years after their first publication, the 48 preludes & fugues of JS Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier are as important, fascinating and demanding as ever - every aspiring pianist should…
The next instalment in our “Pieces to play” series features a selection of popular works at a more advanced level for which we have published annotated study editions and other…
When we begin work on a new piece, we might feel bewildered by all the information on the page. The score is dense with notes, fingerings, pedallings and other instructions…
I heard Chopin’s beautiful Waltz in A minor in a class the other day. The basic feeling, tempo, balance between the hands and the pedalling were extremely good, and there…
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…
Following on from last week's post on slurs and short phrases in the Baroque and Classical periods, I thought I would look at some other examples from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin…
It should be obvious that playing in time and playing rhythmically are two rather different things. It is possible to play in time according to a fixed beat but still be unrhythmical,…
The C major Prelude from Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C (Book 1 of the WTC) is very familiar to us all. This beautiful progression of harmony in broken chord texture continues to inspire generations of keyboard players.