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COMING OF AGE • Studying and recording the Goldberg Variations, Lang Lang has learnt the value of solitude. At the same time, marriage and impending fatherhood fill him with joy in partnership. The experiences have changed him for good, he tells Erica Worth

LANG LANG • Up close

PROBLEM SOLVING PRACTICE IDEAS FOR OUR PIECES • Yearning for Janáček? Bereft without Beethoven? Graham Fitch becomes your very own piano teacher with technical treats for three of this issue’s scores

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? POSTURE AT THE PIANO • It takes good posture as well as good fingers to play to your best abilities. With the help of some nifty camerawork, Mark Tanner explains

THE SCORES • Pianist 117 • Read the lessons • Play the scores

FRANCK VIEUX NOËL IN G MINOR FROM L’ORGANISTE • Think about the magic of Christmas when you play this sparkling piece, says Melanie Spanswick. Oh, and imagine you’re playing the organ as well

MACDOWELL BY SMOULDERING EMBERS OP 61 NO 6 • ‘Music is of the stuff dreams are made of,’ wrote Edward MacDowell in one of his critical essays. Nils Franke takes a look at one of the composer’s evocative works

TCHAIKOVSKY DECEMBER (CHRISTMAS) FROM THE SEASONS OP 37a • Addressing melody and accompaniment separately will give you space to find the poetry behind the notes of this joyful waltz, says Lucy Parham

HANS-GÜNTER HEUMANN BEGINNERS KEYBOARD CLASS • LESSON 44: PLAYING LEGATO AND STACCATO SIMULTANEOUSLY

Arcangelo CORELLI (1653-1713) • Sarabande Op 5 No 7

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) • Musette Anh 126

Erik SATIE (1866-1925) • Petit prelude a la journee, from Enfantillages pittoresques

Cesar FRANCK (1822-1890) • Vieux Noël in G minor

Gustav HOLST (1874-1934) arr. Pam WEDGWOOD (b.1947) • In The Bleak Midwinter

John GERAGHTY (b.1970) • Rum and Samba

Mikhail GLINKA (1804-1857) • Mazurka in C minor

Niels GADE (1817-1890) • Elegie from Aquarelles Op 19 No 1

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908) • By Smouldering Embers from Fireside Tales Op 61 No 6

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)...