Learn Classical Favourites on Piano
CoursePianoClassicalIntermediate
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Learn Classical Favourites on Piano

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Duration1h 0m
Modules21
LevelIntermediate
LanguageEnglish

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About this course

Learn three of the best-loved pieces in the piano repertoire with concert pianist Annabel Thwaite: Bach's Air on a G String, Beethoven's Für Elise, and the traditional Danny Boy (Londonderry Air). Each comes with downloadable sheet music and fingering guides.

Annabel shows you how to perform each piece with real style - setting the mood through tempo and dynamics, finding stylistically appropriate articulation, working through the tricky passages, and understanding the history and context behind the music. Along the way she teaches the technique and practice habits that carry over to everything else you play, and suggests where to go next.

It's aimed at amateur pianists, roughly around Grade 2-3, who want to learn great repertoire while genuinely developing as players.

Who it's for

  • Beginner to intermediate pianists, around Grade 2-3
  • Returning players rebuilding technique through pieces they love
  • Self-taught pianists wanting more shape and nuance

What you'll learn

  • Play Air on a G String, Für Elise and Danny Boy with feeling
  • Shape phrases using tempo, dynamics and articulation
  • Break tricky passages into focused, effective practice

What you'll need

  • An acoustic or digital piano, ideally with weighted keys
  • The downloadable sheet music and fingering guides provided
  • A few minutes most days - regularity beats long sessions

Meet the Guru

Annabel Thwaite

Annabel Thwaite

Recognised as one of Britain's most versatile and charismatic pianists, Annabel Thwaite enjoys a diverse career as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, educator and examiner, and has won all the major accompanying prizes, including the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier, Gold Medal, and Richard Tauber Piano Prizes. She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Roberto Alagna, Bryn Terfel, David Kempster and "Only Men Aloud!"

Annabel has recorded for Universal records with the "Scottish Tenor", whose album was nominated for a Classical Brit Award and is regularly played on Classic FM. Twice the accompanist for the Festival of Welsh Male choirs, her performances at the Royal Albert Hall were recorded by Sain and have been aired on S4C. She is also a film session pianist, having recorded at Abbey Road the music for the film "Awake", the BBC Jane Austen series "Emma", "The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister" and, most recently, she has appeared on both Blue Peter and "The Rob Brydon Show".

"...no doubt helped by the obviously brilliant piano accompaniments from Annabel Thwaite...highly enjoyable."

In her MusicGurus courses - Learn Christmas Classics on Piano, Learn Classical Favourites on Piano, and Growing Chamber Groups and Small Ensembles - Annabel shares the musicianship behind that versatile career. You will learn how to bring well-loved Christmas and classical pieces to life at the piano, develop your touch and phrasing, and, drawing on her award-winning experience as an accompanist, discover how to listen, lead and play together when making music with other musicians in chamber groups and small ensembles.

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