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Three years ago Covid swept across the globe, leaving death, loss and still-unknown repercussions in its wake. The 24-hour news cycle moves on, and war has replaced plague in global headlines. Trauma leaves its mark on us as individuals for much long

EMAIL: [email protected] WRITE TO: The Editor, Pianist,Warners Group Publications,The Maltings, West St, Bourne, PE10 9PH. Letters may be edited. Having enjoyed reading Lucy Parham’s lesson on the glorious Rachmaninov Prelude Op 32 No 5 (i

Alkan Prélude Op 31 No 12:For fun, try out the idea of playing the RH’s opening few bars with just your third finger, to help with lyrical voicing. In bars 3, 9, 15 and 21 you can harness finger three for the repeated notes (play the first note of ea

On these pages, Pianist covers the most basic stages of learning through a series of lessons by Hans-Günter Heumann. These eight short exercises are perfect warm-ups for the start of your practice session. French music teacher and composer Félix le C

How do you get two whales in a Mini? – Why, up the motorway of course! (To Wales, you see. Boom, tish! An old joke, sorry, but I couldn’t resist.) And how do you get 88 pianists at one piano? With ingenuity and a lot of long metal levers, is the answ

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The ability to play at sight is an immensely valuable skill that enables and accelerates the process of learning new repertoire. It’s often neglected, though, and if it is untended for too long there will inevitably come a point where one’s reading a

Mozart Sonatas Vol 6 Somm SOMMCD0660 The sixth and final volume of Peter Donohoe’s survey of Mozart Sonatas for Somm is intimately recorded and captures affectionate, expressive and classically crisp accounts of three sonatas. They include the K545