Super Mario – The Czerny Studies of Our Time? Are there any pianists out there who have never played studies by Czerny as part of their training? Probably not many. It is a fact that the technical and stylistic formulas necessary for playing the masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and other classical composers can be developed by playing Czerny’s studies. […]

The sheet music of Burgmüller’s opus 109, 18 Characteristic Studies, has been published as Piano Street Editions together with recordings by Henrik Sandback. This collection may be used as a sequel to the studies opus 100. Each study challenges the player with a specific technical problem, inseparable from the main idea of the composition. Like the earlier pieces, the Characteristic […]

One plus one equals three? Synergy. It’s a word most of us are familiar with, but sometimes difficult to grasp. Synergies arise when the combination of energies, resources, talents and efforts add up to more than the sum of their parts. The idea of combining challenging principles in the Études of Chopin (Opp. 10 and 25) was tested at an […]