Nine Piano Pieces for the Right Hand Alone for advanced pianists by Béla Hartmann In piano literature, works for the left hand alone have a more familiar history—often born of necessity after injury. Paul Wittgenstein, for example, famously commissioned left-hand

Can you tell your Wagner from your Wallen? Or your Schubert from your Seeger? Test your classical music general knowledge and your powers of puzzle-solving alongside fascinating insights into the lives and works of the great composers, living and dead,

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), the UK-based charity for church music, invites organists around the world, professional and amateur, to get ‘Hands on with Handel’ in a mass organ ‘play along’ of the Largo (Ombra mai fu) from

People wonder what classical musicians do all day. Do they spend every waking hour, when not performing, closeted in a practice room, isolated from the world, their only companions dead composers? The reality is, of course, rather different. And memoirs

Following on from her Essential Piano Technique Primers and Level 1, acclaimed pedagogue and pianist Professor Penelope Roskell continues this excellent series with Levels 2 and 3, aimed at Grades 1 to 2 and 3 to 4, respectively. These volumes

“Learning about Beethoven is a joyful journey without end” British journalist and newscaster John Suchet has had a lifelong fascination with Ludwig van Beethoven, from the moment he discovered the great German composer’s music in his twenties. Beethoven’s music, in

She Played and Sang by Australian author and musician Gillian Dooley is an exploration of the music most closely associated with English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) and her musical connections with family and friends, which reveal the intricate ties between

Following on from her splendid ‘The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces’, celebrated pianist and writer Susan Tomes now turns her attention to that oft-neglected corner of classical music history – women pianists. Focusing on 50 women pianists – some