Kindest Cke by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1842) Op.72

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Christoph Gluck Dance Of The Blessed Spirits

Feb 12, 2020

In this latest issue, we return to a wonderful work by the operatic composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787). Gluck was born in Bavaria, and was urged to follow his father’s profession of forester. Thankfully for the development of Western musi

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Mar 17, 2023

Practise this study slowly and with rhythmic accuracy – always allowing more hand/finger weight on the dotted quaver. La dansa Barcelona-born sculptor, painter and composer Narcisa Freixas (1859- 1926) studied the piano with Juan Bautista Pujol, who

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Mar 17, 2023

Romances sans paroles Op 17 Bärenreiter This edition of the three Romances is taken from the third of three volumes devoted to Fauré’s solo piano music in Bärenreiter’s ongoing project to publish the composer’s complete works. They were written whils

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Les Baricades Mistérieuses Solfeggio Edition Peters ISMN: 979-0-014-13683-3 (Couperin); -13682-6 (Bach) The enigmatically titled ‘Les Baricades Mistérieuses’ was published around 1717 as part of Couperin’s Second livre de pièces de clavecin. It is a

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Hans-günter Heumann Beginners Keyboard Class

Mar 20, 2020

On these pages, Pianist covers the most basic stages of learning the piano through a series of lessons by Hans-Günter Heumann. This lesson features a warm-up for scales, followed by two exercises involving rests and interchange between the hands (pag

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Sep 17, 2021

Karen Marshall Faber ISBN10: 0-571-54189-5 This is a companion book to Faber’s awardwinning PianoTrainer series but can be used by any student that wants to improve their scales and arpeggios. All major and minor scales (in harmonic, melodic, and nat

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Pitch-perfect Mendelssohn from the Doric Quartet

Dec 22, 2021

String Quartets, Vol. 2: No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13; No. 3 in D, Op. 44/1; No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44/2 Doric String Quartet Chandos CHAN 20257-2 89:22 mins (2 discs) The works which bookend Mendelssohn’s numbered quartets are each related to a death – t

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Performance Notes

Mar 19, 2024

ONE OF THE most artfully composed power ballads from the Eighties, this dramatic song is built around a hauntingly beautiful, classical-style chord progression. It’s also one of the few popular ballads from the classic rock era that’s in a minor key.

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ENRIQUE GRANADOS La Maja de Goya

Nov 18, 2020

Bridget Mermikides brings us her rendition of a piece made famous by this legendary classical guitarist. This issue’s piece stands as a tribute to the classical guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream OBE (1933-2020) who passed away this year. Bream’s c

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Something In The Air

Jun 14, 2022

“SAVE SOMETHING FOR Me,” the second track off my new album, Light of Love, is a slow ballad, in a style not unlike two of my favorite Jimi Hendrix compositions, “May This Be Love” and “One Rainy Wish.” Like those songs, “Save Something for Me” is bui

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Jan 19, 2024

Henle Henle published this book to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their founding. Produced with a stapled binding, it contains 17 pieces, arranged chronologically from JS Bach to Gershwin, and ranges in difficulty from Grade 4 to Grade 8+. Or, in

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Morning Has Broken Traditional

Jul 3, 2019

In this latest issue, I am arranging a popular traditional hymn, most well known in its 1931 setting of Morning Has Broken with words by the English acclaimed poet and children’s author Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965). Although this is the version of the

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Agathe BACKER GRØNDAHL (1847-1907)

Jul 24, 2020

Having heard her play Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ and Grieg’s A minor Concertos, George Bernard Shaw proclaimed Norwegian composer and pianist Agathe Backer Grøndahl as ‘one of the century’s greatest piano artistes’. However, she withdrew from a concert ca

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Win! £450 cash!

Sep 8, 2022

Can you set a puzzle in this format? Send it, with a photo of yourself, to the address on p4. There’s £20 for every one we use! This week’s puzzle was compiled by Ann Walker, Leeds 1 Outdoor garden puzzle 2 Very dry 3 Outer skin 4 With pretty trimmin

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Perfection Meets Warm Affection In A Superb Set

Sep 6, 2022

String Quartets: in D minor, Op 42; in G, Op. 77 No. 1; in F, Op. 77 No. 2; in D minor, Op. 103 Takács Quartet Hyperion CDA68364 72:35 mins In 1799 Joseph Haydn embarked on a series of six string quartets commissioned by Prince Lobkowitz. The compose

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Various Artists

Mar 8, 2022

World Circuit/BMG WCV050BOX (2CDs + 2LPs). 1997/2021. Ry Cooder, prod.; Jerry Boys, Bernie Grundman, engs. In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder and British label owner Nick Gold traveled to Havana to make what they thought would be a Cuba-meets-Afri