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Pianist 142 February – March 2025 The next issue of Pianist goes on sale 21 March 2025 10 4 Editor’s Note Romantically inclined 6 PIANIST PRIME Access to hundreds of issues, free piano webinars and more 6 Readers’ Letters Alkan’s barlines, more music with bells, and searching for Gambarini 8 Competition News Franco Soda reports from the finals of the 12th edition of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 10 Charles Owen Interview The British pianist talks to Peter Quantrill about his connection with Schumann, the joys of chamber music, and why teaching matters 14 How to Play Masterclass 1 Mark Tanner shows you how to play in a Romantic style 16 How to Play Masterclass 2 Graham Fitch focuses on deep learning techniques in his second article on preparing for a performance 20 How to Play 1 Matthew Mills suggests that less is sometimes more in Frank Bridge’s tender Berceuse 22 How to Play 2 Lucy Parham shows us how to reach great piano-playing heights in Schumann’s soaring Aufschwung 24 How to Play 3 For Melanie Spanswick, it’s all about rhythm and touch in this catchy miniature by Ignatius Sancho 25 The Scores Romantic scores in abundance feature inside this issue including a dreamy night piece by Hensel, an exotic polka by Henselt, two passionate works by Schumann and lots more 66 SUBSCRIBE Save up to 35% on Pianist when you subscribe today 67 Piano Teacher Help Desk Kathryn Page helps students conjure up ‘spontaneous inspiration’ in their playing – a quality we should strive for when interpreting Romantic repertoire 68 The Myra Myth Myra Hess biographer Jessica Duchen reveals the many colourful sides to this remarkable British legend, possibly the greatest pianist ever to have emerged from the UK 72 Do Not Disturb John Evans surveys the many silent piano options, where, with the switch of a lever, an acoustic piano becomes silent 76 Grand sounds from Pianoteq A review of Pianoteq’s latest release – the virtual model of Shigeru Kawai’s concert grand piano 79 Album Reviews Rare and wonderful repertoire is reviewed including Busoni from Donohoe & Lutchmayer, Tarenghi from Pizarro & Zhok, and Kapustin from Frank Duprée 82 Sheet Music Review Dreams, dances and fantasy pieces from Bach to Backer Grøndahl are just some of the works assessed inside this issue 68 8 72 Cover image: © Viktor Erik Emanuel. This page, from top: © Viktor Erik Emanuel; © Hess Family Collection; © HIPC 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. 3• Pianist 142 CONTENTS

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Pianist 142

February – March 2025

The next issue of Pianist goes on sale 21 March 2025

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4 Editor’s Note

Romantically inclined 6 PIANIST PRIME

Access to hundreds of issues, free piano webinars and more 6 Readers’ Letters

Alkan’s barlines, more music with bells, and searching for Gambarini 8 Competition News Franco Soda reports from the finals of the 12th edition of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 10 Charles Owen Interview The British pianist talks to

Peter Quantrill about his connection with Schumann, the joys of chamber music, and why teaching matters 14 How to Play Masterclass 1

Mark Tanner shows you how to play in a Romantic style 16 How to Play Masterclass 2

Graham Fitch focuses on deep learning techniques in his second article on preparing for a performance 20 How to Play 1

Matthew Mills suggests that less is sometimes more in Frank Bridge’s tender Berceuse 22 How to Play 2

Lucy Parham shows us how to reach great piano-playing heights in Schumann’s soaring Aufschwung

24 How to Play 3

For Melanie Spanswick, it’s all about rhythm and touch in this catchy miniature by Ignatius Sancho

25 The Scores

Romantic scores in abundance feature inside this issue including a dreamy night piece by Hensel, an exotic polka by Henselt, two passionate works by Schumann and lots more 66 SUBSCRIBE

Save up to 35% on Pianist when you subscribe today 67 Piano Teacher Help Desk

Kathryn Page helps students conjure up ‘spontaneous inspiration’ in their playing – a quality we should strive for when interpreting Romantic repertoire 68 The Myra Myth

Myra Hess biographer Jessica Duchen reveals the many colourful sides to this remarkable British legend, possibly the greatest pianist ever to have emerged from the UK 72 Do Not Disturb

John Evans surveys the many silent piano options, where, with the switch of a lever, an acoustic piano becomes silent 76 Grand sounds from Pianoteq A review of Pianoteq’s latest release – the virtual model of Shigeru Kawai’s concert grand piano 79 Album Reviews

Rare and wonderful repertoire is reviewed including Busoni from Donohoe & Lutchmayer, Tarenghi from Pizarro & Zhok, and Kapustin from Frank Duprée 82 Sheet Music Review

Dreams, dances and fantasy pieces from Bach to Backer Grøndahl are just some of the works assessed inside this issue

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Cover image: © Viktor Erik Emanuel. This page, from top: © Viktor Erik Emanuel; © Hess Family Collection; © HIPC 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.

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