Do any of you know what good piano magazines there are to subscribe to?

[Spatula]

Do any of you know what good piano magazines there are to subscribe to?

[faulty_damper]

I doubt there are many.  But I did see one magazine at the bookstore once.  I think it was Pianist magazine or something.  Daniel Barenboim was interviewed in it that issue.

[Spatula]

Ever heard of this magazine called "Keyboard"?

[rlefebvr]

Keyboard is very good.

The pianist is excellent, but is only if you want to get your hands on some great sheetmusic. Comes with a CD for every piece. There are some great articles, but for the price is high if you are not interested in the sheetmusic

[bernhard]

Yes, I like "Pianist" too, especially on account of the CD of easy pieces - it is very difficult to find easy pieces recorded.

There are two things I dislike though: They often give simplified pieces on the beginer section - I would rather they would give original beginner pieces - there are plenty of those (in one issue, they even had a facilitated version of Fur Elise! )

And they do not realise ornaments. Since one of the main aims of the magazine is didactical, I would really like to see the ornaments realised plus a discussionof why they did that particular realisation (on the CD the ornaments are played).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[janice]

"Clavier" is a great magazine, mainly for music edcation!  Do they still publish that?  I subscribed to it back in college.

[Sketchee]

I looked up Clavier on Amazon and found that it's $17 there for a years subscription with Clavier Piano Explorer being $8 a year.  That's a pretty good bargain, even if it is probably a very thin magazine.  I might subscribe!

There are a few other magazines listed there that seem interesting when searched for "piano" in the magazines catagory.  Some of them seem pretty expensive though.

[faulty_damper]

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