Pianist 138
June-July 2024
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CONTENTS
4 Editor’s Note Legacy of a legend 6 Readers’ LettersA ‘no’ to
facial expressions but a ‘yes’ to Marc-André Hamelin! 6 Summer LearningRead about
the courses on offer at PIANO WEEK this summer 8 Pianist at Work Erica Worth
speaks to Paul Wee about his new Romantic concertos album 10 Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
Jessica Duchen talks to the fifth of the celebrated musical siblings about her debut recording for Sony Classical 14 How to Play Masterclass 1
Mark Tanner shows you how to break out of your comfort zone 16 How to Play Masterclass 2
Graham Fitch on getting your pieces up to performance level 20 How to Play 1 Melanie
Spanswick addresses ‘swaying branches’ in a work by Dunhill
21 How to Play 2 It’s all about
creating some fantastic sparkle in this addictive Rondo by Clementi, says Nils Franke 22 How to Play 3 Guest writer
Gareth Owen helps you bring Chopin’s elegant Waltz in C sharp minor to life 26 The Scores Lots to delve into
inside this issue’s scores section, including three pieces of varying levels by Russian composer Samuil Maykapar 66 PIANIST PRIME Access to
hundreds of issues, free piano webinars and more! 67 Piano Teacher Help Desk
What to do when your pupil turns up without their music? Kathryn is full of ideas 68 Who was Samuil Maykapar?
His music is so much more than the easy pieces written for the beginner-level pianist, says Matthew Mills, who takes us on a journey through the Romantic composer’s life and works
72 How to Warm Up Most teachers advise exercises before we begin our ‘real’ practice. Are they right? John Evans asks the experts 75 Subscribe Save up to 35% when you subscribe to Pianist today (print and digital) 76 Truly,Madly,Schumann
Burkard Schliessmann on recording the works of Schumann for his 3-CD album 78 Composers’ Own Keyboards
Warwick Thompson finds out what we can learn about the great composers via the instruments they owned (or hired!) 81 Album Reviews Five stars for
Andrey Gugnin’s Grieg and Nikolai Lugansky’s Wagner transcriptions – with impressive releases by both Nelson Goerner and Kirill Gerstein 82 Sheet Music Review Secret gardens and Venezuelan treasures are just two of the books reviewed inside this issue
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