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A minor sensation: Chopin’s recently discovered a-minor waltz. Interview with Jeffrey Kallberg
In spring 2024, a new work by Frédéric Chopin was … Continue reading
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Schubert’s “Serenade” on its way through Europe
Anniversaries of great composers cast long shadows. This applies not … Continue reading
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“At the Piano” – lends colour to the Henle catalogue!
Even the visual design is a little revolution for Henle: … Continue reading
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Tagged At the Piano, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, piano, Schubert, Schumann
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Tristan at Troldhaugen – interesting finds in Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces”
Among the most popular and successful of Edvard Grieg’s compositions … Continue reading
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Listeners are also only human
Observations on the necessity of body language in piano playing … Continue reading
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Schubert deletes, Brahms restores. On the first of the three posthumous piano pieces (Impromptus) D 946 by Franz Schubert
Schubert did not live to see the publication of his … Continue reading
Brahms’s ‘Hungarian Dances’ – new finds in old sources
In 2011 the Brahms researcher Michael Struck made a striking … Continue reading
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‘Play it again’ – is a repeat sign missing in Brahms’ Paganini Variations?
Some time ago we received an interesting query from a … Continue reading
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Debussy: to finger or not to finger…? Why we are adding fingering in the “Études”
In summer 1915 in the solitude of Pourville, the small … Continue reading
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Tagged Chopin, Couperin, Debussy, Études, fingering, piano, Rameau
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