I have been eagerly waiting for the next volume in Victoria Proudler's Piano Grades are Go! series to appear, and if you have too, you won't be disappointed. The two…

The new ABRSM Piano Syllabus seems to come round alarmingly quickly. It often feels as that no sooner have I reviewed one, the next one drops through the letterbox. The…

As you may have guessed, new volumes of Faber Music's The Piano Player series are released far quicker than I can keep up in reviewing them. The series is clearly…

Given that if I was really honest, quite a bit of the stuff I’m sent for review is, at worst, pretty awful, mediocre at best, it makes it even more…

If you haven't heard the name Yiruma, then even if it's unknowingly, I'm sure you've heard 'River Flows in You', probably his most iconic piano piece. South Korean-born pianist composer,…

If you've had any experience of learning, playing or teaching the piano, you can't failed to have missed the extensive series of books, 'The Joy of...'. Some 50 volumes have…

Teachers, and occasionally students, can sometimes be a little cautious when it comes to collections of music by only one composer. We think of anthologies and compilations containing works by…

Sometimes a book drops into my review pile, and I wonder how on earth I'm going to write a whole page about it, not because it's so bad, but because…

Nancy Litten's Piano Postcards, subtitled '12 Recital Piano Works Inspired by Travel', is an imaginative collection of diverse pieces reflecting the diversity of the people and places around the world…

Sometimes a book drops through the letterbox, and when I open the envelope, I just know that this is going to be a book which remains on my shelves forever.…