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Mitsuko Uchida

‘People can be so bl**dy serious about music, but it should be pure pleasure’ – Mitsuko Uchida

Videos

Steinway's new piano

This new Mussorgsky-themed Steinway piano is utterly stunning to look at

Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters' on a massive gr

Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters' on a massive grand piano

Piano stock photo

15 really strange stock photos of pianists

Lang lang piano

10 things they didn’t tell you about playing piano

la la land medley

We've just fallen in love with this La La Land medley for cello and piano

Robertsbirdge codex asset

This is the oldest known piece of keyboard music

Musical instrument instruction diagrams

Musical instrument instruction diagrams: get to know your instrument

happy birthday jazz arrangement

‘Happy Birthday’ rewritten as a jazz piano odyssey is exceptionally cool

Sakura Sakura

This beautifully simple Japanese melody 'Cherry Blossoms' will put a spring in your step

Chopin two pianos

This pianist can play Chopin on two pianos better than most people can on one

One note piece Legeti

This piece only has ONE note in it, but is still absolutely thrilling

yuja wang encore

Watch Yuja Wang take apart Mozart with this unbelievably exciting encore

Yuja Wang

Rachmaninov improvisation GoPro

This Rachmaninov-inspired improvisation is absolutely stunning

Rachmaninov

piano concerto with no piano

A Tchaikovsky piano concerto WITHOUT a piano, and Bach WITH pizza

Flight of the Bumblebee two pianos

Watch this pianist play Flight of the Bumblebee on TWO pianos at the SAME TIME

musician every day tips

10 extremely simple things musicians can do every day to make life a little easier

tube strike pianist

In the middle of a nightmarish London tube strike, this guy jumped on a public piano and made everyone feel much better