Over the past two years, Andras Schiff played the entire Beethoven sonata cycle in a series of concerts. As I recall, he played them only in Chicago, Ann Arbor, and New York (Carnegie Hall, natch). I attended all of the Ann Arbor performances. They were delightful: Schiff brought a different, very thoughtful and warm sensibility [...]
I recently read two novels about pianists that my wife gave me for Christmas, and both were excellent. I will also briefly mention a third I read several years ago. I’m not going to try to write very thoughtful or complete book reviews here; I’ll briefly describe them and then point to reviews [...]
Tagged books, novels, performersThe International Music Score Library Project as an attempt “to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.”
This looks very well stocked: they claim over 8000 works and over 14,000 scores. On a spot [...]
Philip Johnston, author of Practiceopedia and founder of PracticeSpot.com, is not just a music educator (and entrepreneur), but also a composer. At Recitalworks.com he sells scores of his music for students. I have no idea how good his pieces are for teaching but he offers a very interesting feature: the student or teacher [...]
The Best Free Sheet Music Websites: don’t drop the piano