APTA Lending Library

What is the Lending Library?

As part of our mandate towards continuing education, APTA has established a library of DVDs on a variety of topics related to music, music history, and piano pedagogy. Members can watch the video in their own home or host a coffee party and invite other teachers in their community to watch the video and discuss it afterward. Many of the videos are suitable to watch with students, especially students preparing for history exams.  We also have CDs which can be borrowed for the same purpose.

How Much Does it Cost?

The library can be used by all APTA members. We charge a per rental fee of $12 per DVD or 2 for $20. This covers express post to your home plus return postage and a small library maintenance fee. Payment can be made by credit card online or by cash or cheque using the APTA Lending Library Brochure.

Can I Suggest a Title?

If you have a suggestion for a video you think APTA should purchase for our library, or if you have an item you would like to donate, please contact Esther Ling: librarian@aptaonline.net.

Download Video Lending Library Loan Agreement

Order your materials online

Visa or MasterCard accepted

Our librarian will contact you to let you know the availability of your selection(s).

Inventory:

Pedagogical

  • Gravi-DVD: Teaching Paul Wirth’s Gravity-Based Piano – DVD
  • Freeing the Caged Bird: Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventative Piano Technique – DVD
  • The Art of Adjudicating – Saskatchewan Music Festival Association – DVD
  • The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein – DVD
    • Musical Phonology
    • Musical Syntax
    • Musical Semantics
    • The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
    • The Twentieth Century Crisis
    • The Poetry of Earth
  • From the World Pedagogy Conference – 2 separate lectures on 1 DVD
    • Arbo Valdma: Emotional Connection with Students – Why One Cannot Teach Without it
    • Ann Schein: Carrying the Great Piano Traditions into the 21st Century
  • Nelita True at Eastman, Vol. 1:  Portrait of a Pianist-Teacher
  • Nelita True at Eastman, Vol. 2: The Studio Lesson
  • Nelita True at Eastman, Vol. 3:  Technique through Teaching
  • Nelita True at Eastman, Vol. 4:  Principles of Style for the Young Pianist
  • Performance Practices in Classical Piano Music
  • Introduction to Baroque Dance

General Interest

  • Big Bangs:  Howard Goodall – 2 DVDs
  • Arts and the Mind with Lisa Kudrow (PBS) – DVD
  • Song of Survival – DVD
  • The Art of the Piano: Great Pianists of the 20th Century – DVD
  • The Music Instinct:  Science and Song – DVD
  • Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glynnie – DVD
  • El Sistema: Music to Change Life – DVD
  • Breaking the Silence: Music in Afghanistan – DVD
  • Pianomania – DVD
  • They Came to Play – DVD

Teaching Students with Special Needs / Ages

  • Asperger Syndrome:  A Different Mind
  • ADHD for Educators
  • ADHD featuring Dr. Thomas Brown
  • Recreational Music Making – 4 DVD set

Biographical

  • Mr. Bach Comes to Call – DVD
  • Bach & Friends – 2 DVD set
  • In the Footsteps of Chopin – DVD
  • Glenn Gould Life and Times – DVD
  • Glenn Gould Russian Journey – DVD
  • Glenn Gould Extasis – DVD
  • Meet the Musicians:  Scott Joplin – DVD
  • Mozart (A & E Biography) – DVD
  • Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury (A & E Biography) – DVD
  • Composer’s Specials Series – DVD
    • Beethoven Lives Upstairs
    • Bach’s Fight for Freedom
    • Handel’s Last Chance
    • Rossini’s Ghost
    • Strauss: King of Three-Quarter Time
    • Bizet’s Dream
    • Liszt’s Rhapsody
  • The Great Composers: The Collection – DVD
    • Great Composers: Bach
    • Great Compoers: Beethoven
    • Great Composers: Chopin
    • Great Composers:  Debussey
    • Great Composers: Dvorak
    • Great Composers: Handel
    • Great Composers: Mendelsson
    • Great Composers: Mozart
    • Great Composers: Puccini
    • Great Composers: Ravel
    • Great Composers: Schubert
    • Great Composers: Schumann
    • Great Composers: Tchaikovsky
    • Great Composers: Vivaldi
  • The Classic Composers – CD
    • Bach: Baroque Masterpieces
    • Bach: Master Musician
    • Beethoven: The Spirit of Freedom
    • Beethoven: Romantic Interludes
    • Beethoven: Revolutionary Music
    • Beethoven: Personal Torments
    • Berlioz: Romantic Fantasies
    • Bizet: Operatic Passion
    • Borodin: Russian Melodies
    • Brahms: Grand Passions
    • Brahms: Romantic Passions
    • Bruckner: Symphonic Grandeur
    • Chopin: Magical Piano Music
    • Chopin: Piano Extravaganza
    • Debussy: Images and Impressions
    • Delius: Pastoral Rhapsody
    • Dvorak: Bohemian Melodies
    • Dvorak: Bohemia and the New World
    • Elgar: The Spirit of England
    • Faure: French Innovation
    • Gershwin: American Rhapsody
    • Grieg: Norwegian Idyll
    • Handel: Music for a Royal Court
    • Handel: From Opera to Oratorio
    • Haydn: Musical Craftsman
    • Haydn: Master of Music
    • Holst: Out of this World
    • Lehar: Romance and Music
    • Liszt: Piano Masterpieces
    • Mahler: Grand Music
    • Mendelssohn: Dreams and Fantasies
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies, Strings, and Songs
    • Mozart: Musical Masterpieces
    • Mozart: Classic Melodies
    • Mozart: Genius at Play
    • Mozart: Magic of Music
    • Mussorgsky: Russian Extravaganza
    • Offenbach: Masterly Entertainment
    • Prokofiev: Russian Interludes
    • Puccini: Tragedy at the Opera
    • Rachmaninoff: The Great Romantic
    • Ravel: Modern Magic
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Fantasies
    • Rossini: Operas and Overtures
    • Saint Saens: French Cavaleade
    • Schubert: Lyrical Harmonies
    • Schubert: Melodic Brilliance
    • Schumann: Poetry and Romance
    • Shostakovich: Modern Masterpieces
    • Sibelius: Sounds of Finland
    • Smetana: Music from Bohemia
    • Strauss, Johann Jr: Viennese Nights
    • Strauss, Richard: Theatrical Inspirations
    • Stravinsky: Musical Revolutionary
    • Tchaikovsky: Poetry and Passion
    • Tchaikovsky: The Spirit of Russia
    • Tchaikovsky: Triumphs and Tragedy
    • Vaughan Williams: English Fantasia
    • Verdi: Operatic Masterpieces
    • Verdi: Grand Opera
    • Vivaldi: Venetian Splendour
    • Wagner: Master of Epic

Concert Titles

  • LIsa Yui:  4 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Performance and Commentary – DVD
  • Luciano Pavarotti: Recital in Barcelona – DVD
  • Duke Ellington, Legends of Jazz – DVD
  • Horowitz in Moscow – DVD
  • 10th Anniversary Piano Extravaganza (Verbier Festival and Academy) – DVD
  • On a Classical Note – CD
    • Mozart
    • Beethoven
    • Vivaldi
    • Tchaikovsky
    • Chopin
  • The Norton Recordings, 7th Edition, Vol 1: Gregorian Chant to Beethoven – 4 CDs
  • The Norton Recordings, 7th Edition, Vol 2: Schubert to Present – 4 CDs
  • Bach: Brandenberg Concerti – 2 CDs
  • Bach: Christmas Cantatas – 4 CDs
  • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 846-869 (Vladimir Feltsman) – 2CDs
  • Beethoven Symphonies No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 – 3 CDs
  • Beethoven Symphonies No. 6, 8, and 9 – 3 CDs
  • Beethoven Symphonies 1 (Karajan) – 2 CDs
  • Beethoven Symphonies 2 (Karajan) – 3 CDs
  • Beethoven: Greatest Hits – CD
  • Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Arthur Brendel) – 10 CDs
  • Beethoven: Moonlight, Pathetique and Appasionata Sonatas (Serkin) – CD
  • Faure: Music for Piano (Paul Crossly) – 4 CDs
  • Handel: Messiah (Sir Thomas Beecham) – 3 CDs
  • Haydn: The Creation – 2 CDs
  • Haydn: Symphonies 93 to 104 – 5 CDs
  • The Piano Music of Heather Laliberte (Mark Payne) – CD
  • Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words (Andreas Schiff) – CD
  • Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Peter Katin) – CD
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
    • Volume 4
    • Volume 5
  • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Flute & Harp Concerto – CD
  • Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos – 2 CDs
  • Mozart: Wind Concertos (complete) – CD
    • Volume 1: Woodwind
    • Volume 2: Flute
  • Mozart Greatest Hits – CD
  • Mozart: Symphonies No 40 and 41 – CD
  • Mozart: Flute Quartets (James Galway & Tokyo String Quartet) – CD
  • Mozart Vol 1: Concertos (John Browning) – CD
  • Mozart Vol 2: Sonatas (John Browning) – CD
  • Scarlatti: Ivo Pagorelich – CD
  • Sonata (Paganini & Tedesco) – CD

Educational Titles

  • Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts – DVD
    • What Does Music Mean + What is American Music + What is Orchestration
    • What Makes Music Symphonic? + What is Classical Music + Humour in Music
    • What is a Concerto? + Who is Gustav Mahler? + Folk Music in the Concert Hall
    • What is Impressionism + Happy Birthday, Igor Stravinsky + What is a Melody?
    • The Latin American Spirit + Jazz in the Concert Hall + What is Sonata Form?
    • A Tribute to Sibelius + Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals + The Sound of an Orchestra
    • A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich + What is a Mode? + A Toast to Vienna in 3/4 Time
    • Quiz Concert: How Musical Are You + Berlioz Takes a Trip + Two Ballet Birds
    • Fidelio: A Celebration of Life
  • Opera Stories – Set of 6 DVDs or Individual DVDs
    • Ernani & Il Trovatore
    • Aida & Otello
    • Falstaff & La Boheme
    • Andrea Chenier & Manon Lescaut
    • Tosca & Die Fledermaus
  • Kirov Ballet: Stravinsky The Firebird/Petrushka – DVD
  • Le Nozze de Figaro – DVD
  • Madame Butterfly – DVD
  • La Traviata – DVD
  • What is Music? Science & Music – DVD
  • History of R&B – 5 CD set
  • Opera for Kids in English – CD
  • Beethoven’s Wig 1 – CD
  • Beethoven’s Wig 2 – CD
  • Peter and the Wolf – CD
  • Peter Ustinov Reads the Orchestra – CD
  • Raffi: The Singable Songs Collection – CD
  • Classical Kids – CD
    • Song of the Unicorn
    • Mr. Bach Comes to Call
    • Beethoven Lives Upstairs
    • Tchaikovsky Discovers America
    • Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery
    • Mozart’s Magic Fantasy
    • Halleluiah, Handel

Entertainment

  • The Best of Victor Borge: Act 1 & 2 – DVD
  • Copying Beethoven – DVD
  • Mr. Holland’s Opus – DVD
  • The Pianist – DVD
  • A Song from the Heart – DVD
  • The Sound of Music – DVD
  • Temple Grandin – DVD
  • Victor Borge Show Collection Volume 1 – DVD
  • Victor Borge Show Collection Volume 2 – DVD
  • Victor Borge Show Collection Volume 3 – DVD