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Here are a couple of performances by a truly outstanding performer, who I only stumbled across by chance very recently. It's interesting just how obvious his dynamic range and tone quality is, despite the fairly primitiv...

Rhythm is an essential ingredient of music. A musician must know how to create alluring tunes and must possess the sense of rhythm. A pianist can play the right keys but if the timing is not right, then music can...

Greetings All, I am confused by a few points. First, the Arch. In the DVD, Alan often demonstrates the collapse of the Arch as a natural cause of failure, and that the remedy is to train oneself to keep its potent st...

Hi I'm about to embark on a 3-month contract in Denmark so I won't have a piano for a while but proabably plenty of spare time not watching Danish TV! What are the best techniques in learning repetoire away from the...

In the video, there is an exercise that involves raising the arch of the hand without raising the wrist. In the preliminary stages of practicing that exercise, do you think that there would be any benefit to practicing...

Hi, I am practising some forte octaves using "levers" and I think i am gradually finding the correct coordination to perform an effortless weightless forte. I find keeping the 5th finger flat to be tricky sometimes....

Here is a video of Katsaris playing Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Pastoral symphony. Horowitz reportedly played Liszt's transcriptions frequently in private and regretted that he didn't record them. What do you...