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Pianist 78
CONTENTS
June - July 2014 The next issue of Pianist goes on sale 25 July 2014
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Editor’s Note
4 Competition Three lucky winners will each receive a copy of this issue’s Editor’s Choice CD, Piano Reflections from from Ji Liu 6
Readers’ Letters
8 News Valentina Lisitsa plays Nyman, John Ogdon biography biography reviewed, sign up for a masterclass with Richard Goode, Riverdancing on on your piano and more 10 Expert 10 Expert Talk Tim Stein on raising your accompanying game, and Cyprien Katsaris on playing rare repertoire and arranging Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ for solo piano 12 Chenyin 12 Chenyin Li talks to Jessica Duchen about juggling a musical life between between recording the Pianist covermount covermount CD, teaching and preparing for her own per formances around the world 16 How to Play Masterclass 1 Mark Tanner on the handy skill of improvising. Hint: it’s it’s not just for jazz pianists 18 How to Play Masterclass 2 Graham Fitch on practising quick pieces slowly (and vice verse) Don’t miss Graham’s online lessons!
20 How to Play 1 Melanie Spanswick on the beginner level Stanford Minuet (Scores page 30)
22 How to Play 2 Janet Newman Newman on Schumann’s Schumann ’s ‘Child falling asleep’ from Scenes from Childhood (Scores (Scores page 40) 24 How to Play 3 Lucy Parham on Debussy’s shimmering Reflets dans l’eau (Scores page 57) 27 The 27 The Scores A pullout section of 40 pages of sheet music for all levels. Plus, read about our online lessons!
45 Beginner Keyboard Class Hans-Günter Heumann’s sixth lesson: Triplets and repeated notes 67 A Week in the Life Of Why do we fear the critics, when when some of them are as charming, open and knowledgable as Hugh Canning, Chief Classical Music Critic for the Sunday Times ? 68 Turkish Delight Erica Worth goes to 68 Istanbul to discover the young, dynamic Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. ey’ll be at this year’s BBC Proms, too 70 Top Marks Love them or loathe them – exams are here to stay stay.. But doing them helps you focus and improve no end, as restarter Ed Balls reveals to us
68 78 Innovation 78 Innovation & Tradition is year at the Frankfurt Musikmesse, Pianist Editor Editor Erica Worth encountered glass pianos, white pianos, advanced advanced actions and more 82 Clean 82 Clean Machine Keeping your piano spotless will pay off in the long run, says Gez Kahan, who tells you how to whip (or gently dust) your instrument into shape 85 Subscribe today for just £4.50 an issue 85 by Direct Debit and receive a FREE sheet music book of Beethoven, Chopin or Debussy worth £9.99 86 CD 86 CD Review Editor’ Editor’ss Choice this issue goes to the smashing young Jiu Liu, but he had plenty of competition from Martha Argerich’s Argerich ’s Mozart Mozart and Federico Federico Colli’s Colli’s latest 88 Sheet 88 Sheet Music Review ree new exciting duet albums, folk music, an unknown Polish pianist-composer and new Albéniz volumes are are in this issue’s round-up 89 Classifieds 89 Classifieds
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76 Jelly Roll Roll Morton Who invented jazz? jazz? e New Orleans-born pianist, free spirit and composer Jelly Roll Morton is one candidate, as Inge Kjemtrup learns
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