4-Hands Sightreading

[steinwayguy]

Neuhaus strongly recommends this in his book (The Art of Piano Playing). I'm just double-checking that the main purpose of this is to practice not stopping?

[Rach3]

More to it than that - four-hands stuff is like chamber music, you have to collaborate musically and that alone has its benefits.

[steinwayguy]

More to it than that - four-hands stuff is like chamber music, you have to collaborate musically and that alone has its benefits.

Ah.

[Eusebius_dk]

More to it than that - four-hands stuff is like chamber music, you have to collaborate musically and that alone has its benefits.

...and it's also good fun! There are houndreds of Symphony arrangements out there. It's a great way to learn some of the orchestral repertoire by actually playing the notes. Earlier I used to meet with some friends and play 8-hand symphonies - it just doubles the fun!