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Pianist 80
CONTENTS
October - November 2014 The next issue of Pianist goes on sale 28 November 2014
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9 News Learn the piano with Lang Lang, Beethoven concerts galore in London, going hands on with historic keyboards 10 Step into the spotlight Pianist and and Schott present a showcase in London this January – your c hance to shine! s hine! 12 Expert Talk Tim Stein on left-hand 12 leaps and Angela Hewitt on learning Bach’ss mammoth Bach’ m ammoth e Art of Fugue 14 Alessio Bax talks to Jessica Duchen 14 about his passion for Beethoven, good food and Lucille Chung (his wife and regular duet partner) 18 How to Play Masterclass 1 Mark Tanner on the left hand 20 How to Play Masterclass 2 Graham Fitch on making the piano sing
24 How to Play Play 2 Lucy Parham on Schubert’s Moment Schubert’s Moment Musical No 1 (Scores page 60) 26 How to Play Play 3 Janet Newman on the Rondo from Mozart’s Sonata K545 (Scores page 38) 27 The Scores A pullout section of 40 27 pages of sheet music for all levels Plus read about our online lessons!
45 Beginner Keyboard Keyboard Class Hans-Günter Heumann’s Lesson No 8: semiquavers (16th notes) 67 Pianists on show Photographer Amy Zielinski discusses her exhibition of concert pianists at Turner Turner Sims – and her ongoing project to photograph their hands 68 Verbier Festival 2014 Erica Worth flies to the Swiss Alps to review some of the biggest names in the piano world, including Sokolov and Argerich 70 Rachmaninov 70 Rachmaninov rocks Behind the scenes at the LPO’s comprehensive Rachmaninov festival, launching this October at London’s Southbank Centre and featuring all the concertos – both versions of the First and the Fourth
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22 How to Play 1 Melanie Spanswick on Tchaikovsky’s ‘e Doll’s Funeral’ from Album for the th e Young Young (Scores (Scores page 30)
72 Ronnie 72 Ronnie Scott’s Nick Shave tells the story of one of the world’s greatest jazz clubs – from its founding days to the arrival of its latest piano
Cover photo: © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco. Images this page: © David Sinclair (Ronnie Scott’s); © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco (Bax); © Aline Paley (Argerich) Notice: Every effort has been made to secure permission for copyrighted material in this magazine, however, should copyrighted material inadvertently have been used, copyright acknowledgement will be made in a later issue of the magazine.
82 76 Left hand forward A look at lefthand repertoire, its players and the Austrian pianist pianis t Paul Wittgenstein, Wittgenst ein, who commissioned some of its greatest pieces 80 Subscribe today for just £4.50 an issue 80 by Direct Debit and receive a FREE piano book worth £9.99 82 Before the piano Gez Kahan presents an in-depth look at keyboard development to uncover how we arrived at the modern instrument 86 CD Review Top marks 86 ma rks for fo r Barenboim’s Schubert, Pizarro’s Romantic Concertos, Williams’s Wagner Wagner and Marshe v’ v’ss complete Mendelssohn 88 Sheet Music Review New piano syllabuses under scrutiny, plus British Isles folk tunes and a Chabrier classic 89 Classifieds 89 Classifieds
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