August 2017
Piano Shops
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Piano Shops
Here is a list of piano shops where a piano can be bought or hired (please keep in mind the conditions and prices often change):
Steinway Hall: Steinway, Boston and Essex pianos; best place to go if you can afford the prices; no hire.
Chappell of Bond Street / now Yamaha Music London: Yamaha, Kemble, Bösendorfer etc; main place for Yamaha pianos; no hire.
Blüthner: Blüthner, Irmler, Haessler, Rönisch etc; to buy, hire and hire with option to buy; brand new pianos for hire..
JReid Pianos: Barraud, Bechstein, Bell, Bernstein, Bluthner, Bosendorfer, Boston, Brinsmead, Broadwood, Carl Schiller, Challen, Challen, D’Este, Erard, Fazioli, Fenner, Feurich, Gaveau, Gebruder, Grotrian, Hoffman, Ibach, Kawai, Kemble, Knake, Knight, Lipp, Matz, Pleyel, Pleyel, Reid-Sohn, Ronisch (Rönisch), Sames, Samick, Sauter, Schiedmayer, Schimmel, Seiler, Squire, Steck, Steinmayer, Steinway (Steinway & Sons), Steinweg, Thurma, Weber, Welmar, Yamaha; to buy, hire and option to buy; new, second-hand and restored pianos; second-hand pianos for hire.
Morley Pianos & Harpsichord: Bechstein, Hoffmann, Grotrian-Steinweg, Bentley, Ritmuller, Weber, Monington & Weston, Waldstein and Steinbach; to buy and to hire, new and second-hand.
Piano Warehouse: in Willesden and Surbiton; to buy and to hire; many different brands, lots of Yamaha pianos.
Markson Pianos: to buy or to hire; many different makes; Bechstein piano centre in London
Mark Goodwin Pianos
Little & Lampert Pianos
Music Magazines
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Interesting Articles on Piano-Related Topics
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Some Interesting Articles on Piano-Related Topics
The hot Liszt
‘The pull of love’ - or why music can be a quasi-spiritual experience
Maurizio Pollini: A Life in Music
Mitsuko Uchida - Fingers on the Pulse
Alfred Brendel - Keeper of the Flame
The Story of Pepito Arriola (1910)
The Making of an Artist. A Talk with Mark Hambourg (1902)
Some Great Virtuosos of the Present Day (1910)
Fanny Bloomfield - The Secret of Public Appearances (1908)
Prodigies and the Gift of Music (1910)
Rachmaninov - Ten Important Attributes of Beautiful Pianoforte Playing (1910)
Emil Sauer - Lessons with Franz Liszt (1910)
The Real Paderewski (1915)
Alexander Siloti - Memories of Rubinstein and Liszt I (1920)
Alexander Siloti - Memories of Rubinstein and Liszt II (1920)
Joseph Lhévinne - Practical Phases of Modern Pianoforte Studies I (1921)
Joseph Lhévinne - Practical Phases of Modern Pianoforte Studies II (1921)
Music ‘releases mood-enhancing chemical in the brain’
Classical Music Venues in London
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Classical Music Venues in London
A small selection:
Southbank Centre
Barbican Centre
Wigmore Hall
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Opera House
St John's Smith Square
King's Place
Cadogan Hall
St Martin-in-the-Field
Handel House
Books on Music
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Books on Music
Here is a small selection of books and DVDs which could be of interest and some use. Ask for advice on specific topics.
Some Great Piano Recordings
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Some Great Piano Recordings
"Musik soll nicht schmücken. Sie soll wahr sein." Arnold Schönberg
Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov
Kissin
Glenn Gould
Rubinstein
Busoni
Michelangeli
Anna Yessipova
Vera Timanova
Lipatti
Horowitz
Sofronitsky
Myra Hess
Leschetizky
Hofmann
Ignaz Friedman
Arrau
Richter
Volodos
Moiseiwitsch
Perahia
Argerich
Alicia de Larrocha
Edwin Fischer
Some Music - Great Recordings
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Some Great Recordings
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” Aldous Huxley
Free Ebooks Download
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“You cannot open a book without learning something.” Confucius
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Cicero
Here are some websites with free ebooks to download:
Project Gutenberg
Online Books Page
Greek and Latin Texts
The Internet Sacred Text Archive
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main - Edocs Publikationssystem
The Latin Library
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Cicero
Here are some websites with free ebooks to download:
Project Gutenberg
Online Books Page
Greek and Latin Texts
The Internet Sacred Text Archive
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main - Edocs Publikationssystem
The Latin Library
Free Sheet Music Download
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The World Wide Web is a useful source of information which is a self-evident part of our lives in the 21st century. The easy accessability to data makes progress much quicker but also sometimes provokes getting lost on the way.
Here is a collection of some useful links to websites where sheet music is offered for download:
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Project Gutenberg
Notenarchiv Boris Tarakanov (Russian)
Classon.ru (Russian)
Sheet Music for Children (Russian)
Aperock Sheet Music (Russian)
Every Note
William and Gale Cook Music Library
Les Partitions
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
Free Scores
Free PDF sheet music
The Free Sheet Music Guide
8notes
Sheet Music Fox
Mutopia
Easy Sheet Music
Free Piano Sheet Music
Quatre Mains
Sheet Music Online
Mozart Noten online
Kreusch Sheet Music
Kostenlose Klaviernoten
Sheetzbox
PianoFiles
Here is a collection of some useful links to websites where sheet music is offered for download:
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Project Gutenberg
Notenarchiv Boris Tarakanov (Russian)
Classon.ru (Russian)
Sheet Music for Children (Russian)
Aperock Sheet Music (Russian)
Every Note
William and Gale Cook Music Library
Les Partitions
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
Free Scores
Free PDF sheet music
The Free Sheet Music Guide
8notes
Sheet Music Fox
Mutopia
Easy Sheet Music
Free Piano Sheet Music
Quatre Mains
Sheet Music Online
Mozart Noten online
Kreusch Sheet Music
Kostenlose Klaviernoten
Sheetzbox
PianoFiles