The Pianodao Music Library brings together the repertoire and resources which have been reviewed, shared or otherwise featured on the site. As such, it offers a varied, extensive, inclusive, and ever expanding body of carefully curated music.
The music in the Duets & Ensemble category includes music for more than one player at all levels, from Beginner to Diploma.
Bumper Reviews
8 Great Duet Books 2022
It will be great to see the piano duet rebound following the constraints of the pandemic, and these fresh publications will certainly keep players busy and enthused…
8 Great Piano Duet Books
Here is my selection of some of the best piano duet books for beginner to intermediate players, which I hope you will go ahead and explore for yourselves!
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The Easiest Gillock Pieces
‘The Easiest Gillock Pieces’ offers 31 charming tunes for pre-Grade 1 pianists, complete with optional duet parts for added fun. I think it will make a brilliant addition in any piano teaching studio…
The Piano Duet Anthology
For intermediate to advanced players interested in duet playing, this new volume provides a great introduction to the genre. With its mix of well-known favourites, popular classical arrangements, and contemporary pieces, it makes a fantastic choice for those seeking a wide range of piano duet material to explore, delivered in an appealing package.
Mike Cornick’s Grieg Favourites
Mike Cornick’s Grieg Favourites is a very easy recommendation, and a lovely addition to his extensive catalogue of piano duet repertoire.
The Naoko Ikeda Duet Collection
‘The Naoko Ikeda Duet Collection’ can be seen as an ideal and natural companion to ‘The Graded Collection’; it will be welcomed by all who enjoy duet playing at intermediate level, and who appreciate and want to explore more of Ikeda’s music.
Schott’s Easy Concert Duets
With ‘social distancing’ a receding memory for most of us, this could be a great time to start exploring the duet repertoire, and this new collection from Schott Music just might be the ideal one to help us do that.
Let’s find out if it is…
ABRSM: ‘Piano Star’ Duets
ABRSM’s Piano Star Duets book delivers a varied and enjoyable selection of pieces, from traditional pedagogic fare through to more experimental and musically interesting concoctions.
Mike Cornick’s Elgar Favourites
In addition to Mike Cornick’s new solo piano collection Ragtime Blues and more (which I recently reviewed), Universal Edition have just published his latest collection for one piano, four hands: Elgar Favourites arranged for Piano Duet…
Evolving Blues & Easy Pieces
Adrian Connell’s piano publications offer delightful and well crafted pieces that teachers may well find usefully fill a gap in their collections
Dusk of Day, Dawn of Night
If you enjoyed “Fairyland in Treble”, you are bound to love this new publication from Nikolas Sideris:
Mike Cornick’s ‘Dinner for Two’
Mike Cornick adds to his ongoing series of great duet books with ‘Dinner for Two’..
Piano Sketches & Duets
With so many great new educational piano music publications on the market, it is becoming easy to miss or overlook some genuinely top-drawer material…
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