Review: Graded Piano Anthologies, Grades 5-8 2025-26
I'm always a little wary of published books whose focus is primarily on repertoire for music exams. Exams don't feature hugely in my teaching, and there are still many teachers…
Review: Piano Dreaming (Pam Wedgwood)
Piano Dreaming is a brand new publication from one of the world's most popular composers for the educational market, Pam Wedgwood. Earlier this year, Pam won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement…
Review: Piano Grades are Go! Grades 4-5 (Victoria Proudler)
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…
Review: ABRSM Piano Syllabus 2025-26
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…
Review: The Piano Player, Classical Chillout
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…
Review: 22 Nocturnes for Chopin
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…
Review: Solo, Yiruma 20th Anniversary
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,…
Review: The Piano Player, Christmas Time
If you've read some of my previous reviews of books in The Piano Player series (Wintertide and British Classics), you'll know that I like the covers almost more than the…
Review: The Pam Wedgwood Christmas Collection
Brand new for 2023, The Pam Wedgwood Christmas Collection is a real celebration, not just of the festive season, but of the many popular books Pam has published over several…
Review: The Harry Potter Piano Anthology
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.…
Review: The Piano Player, Wintertide Collection
I'm going to start by saying the presentation of this book is exquisite. As I seem to keep saying, I have a whole shelf section dedicated to Christmas piano music,…
Review: Peaceful Piano Playlist, Christmas
One of several books now published in the Peaceful Piano Playlist series from Faber Music, this Christmas edition includes 24 'festive piano solos for the intermediate player'. They are presented…