We say COLOR OF SOUND as a metaphor for HARMONICS composition. Just like painters compose a color, by mixturing them, pianists create...

Legato/Staccato is not about note duration, but the kind of attack and the shape of the phrase. You can play staccato with pedal (and...

Why care about hands size? In advanced repertoire, even large hands need to re-arrange notes. Dealing with it is part of learning piano,...

In my conservatory years in Brazil we always had to play a Brazilian piece paired with an international one. So Nazareth was very...

Yeah, this is among the most magical pieces ever written for solo piano! It has such a rare intimate mood which is only found in Brahms...

Brahms usually has very strict forms for his music. He was once misunderstood, considered too academic for a romantic composer. This...

Despite its great effect, this is one of the easiest pieces in standard repertory. In Czerny's words: "one of Beethoven's most...

I was in shock when I first heard Ravel himself playing this. We are so flooded with orchestral sentimental performances of this piece, I...

This is not an easy piece. Jumps, lots of different articulation, free flowing right hand melody (bel canto) and very difficult to...