A new, revolutionary tool that allows you to learn piano pieces faster, broaden your repertoire knowledge, improve your interpretational skills or to simply immerse yourself in the refined art of classical piano music, has finally arrived!

The AST integrates Piano Street’s sheet music library with the leading video and music streaming services YouTube, Spotify and Naxos and allows you to listen to recordings of pieces while following along in the scores. The recordings are carefully selected by the Piano Street Team to ensure that the performances are of professional reference standard and provide a diversified selection in terms of interpretational styles.

The AST which is now available for all Gold members includes the six composers Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt and Brahms – 860 pieces in total. More composers will be added regularly throughout the year.

While Piano Street’s own recordings and recordings from YouTube are freely available in the AST the two streaming services Spotify and Naxos Music Library requires accounts with the services.

Try it out now!

Login to your account and navigate to any piece by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Liszt or Brahms and click the AST icon to open the interface in a new browser window:

Not yet a Piano Street member?
Try the two free samples available on this page.

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Music Education Expo takes place on 20 and 21 March 2013 at The Barbican in London. It is the largest national music education conference and exhibition in the UK, and it’s completely free to attend if you register in advance.

Piano Street will present several new features, including the unique audiovisual study tool (AST), at our stand L2 at the exhibition. We hope to see you there!

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Piano Street’s series of recordings of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with pianist Martin Sturfält continues with four pairs of Preludes and Fugues, two from the first book and two from the second book.

Follow the recording project here:
Recording the 48

Prelude & Fugue no 4 in C-sharp Minor, from book 1

Prelude & Fugue no 10 in E Minor, from book 1

Prelude & Fugue no 5 in D Major, from book 2

Prelude & Fugue no 12 in F Minor, from book 2

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June 2012 Album Release on Hyperion

More of Martin Sturfält’s piano playing can be heard in the current release of volume 57 in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series featuring the two Piano Concertos by Adolf Wiklund.

Read more and listen to samples here.

“Volume 57 in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series turns up another ‘discovery’: the music of Swedish composer Adolf Wiklund. These little-known but lusciously tuneful works are characterized by big-boned, symphonic gestures reminiscent of Rachmaninov, yet tempered with the Nordic clarity of Grieg. Wiklund’s two piano concertos are central to his output, and in fact they enjoyed considerable popularity in Sweden until as recently as fifty years ago, when modernist sensibilities deemed them unfashionable. This glittering performance from Martin Sturfält and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, directed by brilliant violinist-turned-conductor Andrew Manze, is bound to bring this unfairly neglected music back into general currency.” — Hyperion Records

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One of many new features and usability enhancement of Piano Street’s piano music library which are to be introduced in the near future has now been implemented.

The score preview makes it more convenient to browse the 3500+ piano scores by letting you view all pages in an overlay directly on the web-page instead of downloading or opening PDF-files. The score preveiw image files are compressed and the resolution optimized for screen viewing. Consequently, the PDF-files should still be used when printing a score.

The score preview feature is available on all single piece pages when logged in to a Gold account. When viewing “Advanced search” results there are no preview links, but you can click the piece titles or the score images to get to the specific piece page where the preview is available. Click the magnifying glass, then flip through the pages of the score by clicking the left and right edges or by using the mouse scroll button.
Happy browsing!

/nilsjohan

On September 21 2001 Piano Street’s forum opened its online doors and we are now celebrating the 10th anniversary!

One of many reasons for the successful start back in 2001 was our very first print advertisement: a quarter page in the renowned magazine “International Piano”.
It is therefore a great pleasure to announce that, at the 10 years mark we close the circle and thanks to a unique deal with Rhinegold Publishing, we are able to offer a very special celebration gift in form of a 12 month digital subscription to International Piano for all of Piano Street Gold members!

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Please join the celebration by posting a comment and sharing your thoughts about Piano Street!

What do you expect Piano Street to be like in ten years from now?
The most interesting and visionary forecast posted before October 21, will be rewarded with a 10 Years Gold Membership!
Update 31 Oct: Congratulations to Esther, who receives the 10 Year Gold membership!

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For the past year Piano Street has been using the 3rd party evaluation system Shopper Approved to track customer satisfaction. They have now collected over 1,000 ratings from paying Gold members and we are pleased to announce that due to the high level of customer satisfaction Piano Street has received the exclusive Shopper Approved 5-Star Excellence Award.

“We believe that great service should be rewarded, which is why we offer Shopper Approved Excellence Awards. Every website that maintains a 4.5 or higher average star rating across all rating criteria, and has no unresolved disputes for at least 90 days, receives the Shopper Approved 5-Star Excellence Award.” — Shopper Approved

Except for star ratings in different areas such as for example product satisfaction, price and customer service users are allowed to leave comments about the service they have purchased. Here are a few of the reviews from Piano Street Gold Membership customers:

I love piano street! It’s excellent. It improves my culture and my piano learning. — Adriana N, São Paulo

For a serious pianist, this is a great place. — Steve – CO, United States

My connection with Piano Street has given me valuable feedback with other pianists which I find encouraging and validating to my own experiences. I am glad to be a part of this larger communtiy. I am excited for my access to a vast supply of classical music scores. — Ivan C. – WA, United States

Worth every dime! — Richard E

Just a great site! — Todd Zhou – AB, Canada

Excellent site!Very very useful-we download pieces for both of my kids — Margot H.

It was like magic to me to sign up for pianostreet and a few minutes later have the music I wanted come out of my printer, sit at the piano and start learning the piece! — M-Claire – WA, United States

What a fabulous site!!! Music right at my fingertips! I’ve lost some of my music throughout the years, and sometimes I just ‘yearn’ to be able to play one of my old pieces. But, I’m kind of a ’spur of the moment’ person, and want the music right then. This site is wonderful – it allows me to print it and have it immediately! I can also build up my repertoire again-
Thank you for establishing this site!!! — Donna Mansfield – Kirkland, Washington, USA

A very useful service & many useful articles — Ivan W.

This is a good site and my fellow piano players also have memberships to this site! — James M.

Very good source for sheet music and recordings — maestrodon

Pianostreet has marvellous collection of top quality classical music sheets. I had lost my entire sheet music collection, and have found 95 pct of my collection back at pianostreet, so thank you very much pianostreet!!! — gmalego

For more reviews and rating details, please see:
Shopper Approved Certificate – www.pianostreet.com

Piano Street’s detailed ratings:

Average ratings:
Recommend this Company – 4.6
Would Buy Again – 4.6
Price – 4.5
Product Satisfaction – 4.7
Customer Service – 4.6

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Contrary to their name, the four scherzos are not light-hearted compositions, and the first three, in particular the Scherzo in B minor, have very strong dramatic accents.
The first and last make the most of the ternary form, with extreme contrasts between the outer sections, full of restless motion, and the melodious middle episodes. The second and third scherzos shows Chopin’s ingenuity in creating new complex and dramatised forms, full of astonishing changes, sudden pauses and contrasts.

The most popular of these pieces is the B-flat Scherzo, opus 31. Chopin himself used it in his teaching and admonished his pupils to play the famous first bars in a manner that evoked the image of a mortuary.

Scherzo no 2 in B-flat Minor, opus 31:

The legendary pianist Arthur Rubinstein plays Scherzo no. 2:

The four Scherzos are now available as urtext scores to download and print from Piano Street’s online sheet music library.
Similar to the recently published collections of Nocturnes, Ballades and Preludes, this new edition by Piano Street attempts to present the most valid version of these pieces following consensus among today’s prominent scholars and pianists.

Chopin – Four Scherzi, sheet music to download and print

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Transcriptions and paraphrases played an important part in shaping Liszt’s role as leading musical figure of his generation.
The first pianist to play the entire range of the keyboard repertory from Bach to Chopin, his historical curiosity and ambitions did not stop there. He transcribed both famous and less well known vocal and orchestral works of others in order to promote the music, and in order to challenge himself to enrich the field of piano techniques.

Schubert-Liszt: Ave Maria performed by Sandro Russo on Liszt’s 1862 Bechstein Piano:

Schubert-Liszt: Ave Maria, piano sheet music:

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Seven transcriptions of songs by Franz Schubert has been added to the sheet music library:
Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Schubert: Ave Maria
Schubert: Der Müller und der Bach
Schubert: Der Wanderer
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh
Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schubert: Ständchen (Horch, horch)

Find more transcriptions by Franz Liszt here:
Liszt: Transcriptions – piano sheet music to download and print

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Grieg’s meeting with Rikard Nordraak, the leader of the Norwegian musical nationalist movement, in 1864 proved very important for the rest of his career. From that moment, Grieg dedicated himself to writing music that would reflect the musical identity of Norway.

33 piano pieces by Grieg, all with strong Norwegian influences have now been added to Piano Street’s sheet music library:

25 Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances, opus 17
Ballade, opus 24
Four Norwegian Dances, opus 35
Improvisations on Two Norwegian Folk Songs, opus 29
Prayer and Temple Dance from the Opera “Olav Trygvason” opus 50

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Ballade opus 24, performed by Stefan Jeschko

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How about instant access on the go to 3000+ study scores from the standard classical piano repertoire?

On m.pianostreet.com, a mobile version of Piano Street’s sheet music library you can easily view all piano scores on your mobile device.

The mobile sheet music library gives convenient mobile access to all scores from www.pianostreet.com. It is a mobile application in the form of a website specifically adapted for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android devices and other smartphones. It also works well in many less advanced mobile phones with Internet access.

1. Visit m.pianostreet.com with your mobile device’s Internet browser.
2. Login with your Piano Street membership details.
3. Browse the composer lists to view any of the 23,000+ pages of sheet music.

Read more on the info page for the Mobile Sheet Music Library.

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