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When I want to listen to some unforgettable piano playing, I turn to the recordings of Emil Gilels. I would have moved mountains to hear him live, but he died in 1985; I console myself instead with films on YouTube, notably his sublime account of the

EMAIL: [email protected] WRITE TO: The Editor, Pianist, Warners Group Publications,The Maltings, West St, Bourne, PE10 9PH. Letters may be edited. I am working on Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor and struggling with the scalic pattern in

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

LESSON 54: VELOCITY On these pages, Pianist covers the most basic stages of learning through a series of lessons by Hans-Günter Heumann. Inside this issue we feature two exercises by French composer Henry Lemoine. He wrote them specifically for impr

Encores: Personal favourites by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Albéniz etc DG 4860932 ★★★★ A birthday present or a parting gift? On the eve of Daniel Barenboim’s 80th birthday, it’s a fair question, but I’m inclined towards the former. He still

Alexis Ffrench Hal Leonard Alexis Ffrench is a British classical-soul composer/ pianist, who has recently been appointed as the ABRSM’s first ever artistic director. Truth is a collection of 13 ambient, atmospheric pieces composed during lockdown wh