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At this time of year, I often feature seasonal pieces of music that celebrate Christmas or evoke the winter season. I wanted to do something different this year, and my thoughts turned to bells – not only the bells that ring in Christmas, but the sou

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I enjoyed reading the article on Samuil Maykapar inside issue 138. The composer is totally new to me, so Matthew Mills’s article was illuminating. As an intermediate-level pianist, I’ve been able to play The Little Orphan and the Arietta, and am enjo

In our practice, we can often experience a false sense of comfort with a piece after working on it for an hour or so only to discover, to our dismay and frustration when we return to it the following day, that nothing much seems to have stuck. In per

The piano’s capacity to evoke other instruments, the human voice, animals, or even the weather, contributes in no small way to its universal attractiveness. We love the piano because it sounds like a piano (of course!), but also for its quasi-orchest

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

ABILITY RATING LATE ELEMENTARY Key A minor Tempo Allegretto Style Classical Will improve your ✓ LH agility ✓ RH phrasing ✓ Sense of pulse August Eberhard Müller (1767-1817) was a popular German composer, organist and choir leader. He wrote a consider

Back in the last century it was often a haphazard affair trying to obtain recordings (or even just a single performance) of the repertoire my teacher set me. I vividly remember in 1982 how frustrated I became over the fact that a recording of Howard

Latin American Piano Gems: Works by Guastavino, Villa-Lobos, Lecuona, Ponce, Piazzolla Centaur CRC4083 There’s something extrovert and unabashedly emotional in Gila Goldstein’s delivery of these gorgeous South American miniatures, and it results in a

Melanie Spanswick Schott Melanie Spanswick has recently been sighted as an editor of several commendable books for Schott, such as anthologies of Women Composers, and collections of pieces by Amy Beach and Narcisa Freixas. In Ghostly Piano Tales, sh