The Natural Piano Blog

It is well known that the notes of the piano decay in intensity, losing resonance.  The impossibility of sustaining a sound with a crescendo is in fact a limitation of the instrument.  And it is precisely this limitation that makes the making of the legato so difficult. 

Chopin's Etude op. 25 N. 7 begins with a melodic line entrusted to the left hand, apparently simple because it lacks other notes to …

Exactly what music transmits to us and how it does it remains somewhat mysterious, but certainly, as everyone experiences, it is something capable of transmitting or awakening a great variety of intense emotions. 

The musical language is "asemantic" that is, unlike the common language, it does not refer to anything concretely definable.  In common parlance the word "bread" means that object in an incontrovertible way, but listening to a Beethoven quartet …