People Get Ready: The Piano Collection. This ground-breaking and unmissable piano collection celebrates the music of iconic black songwriters. Including acclaimed songs such as People Get Ready (Curtis Mayfield), A Change is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke), Blinded By Your Grace Part 1 (Stormzy), I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Nina Simone), Redemption Song (Bob Marley), and more. All of the pieces are idiomatically arranged for intermediate-level piano solo (approximately Grade 3-5). The nature, style and genre of the songs vary widely, but the aim is to introduce players to a range of musicians and works that may well be new to them but are nevertheless important classics. The song People Get Ready was written during a time of civil unrest in America. Curtis Mayfield was increasingly infusing his songs with social commentary and it was written to give a message of hope, that change is on the way and there will be better times ahead.

Debussy confidently wrote to his publisher Jacques Durand in August 1905:
?I believe ? without unwarranted vanity ? that these three pieces will prove to be good and that they will take a prominent place in the literature of piano music ? to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ? as you like it?. Debussy?s ?Images?, already popular during Debussy?s lifetime, delight with their iridescent tone colour and dazzling harmonies ?which reflect the newest discoveries in harmonic chemistry?. The virtuosic second series is notated throughout on three staves.

In commemoration of Debussy?s 150th birthday, Bärenreiter is publishing an Urtext edition of these pieces reflecting the most recent scholarship and source analysis. Clear presentation, fingering by Tamara Stefanovich and valuable information on performance practice all offer optimal conditions for the study of the work.

- Urtext edition based on the most recent research
- Includes fingering by Tamara Stefanovich
- With a detailed foreword (Eng/Ger) and critical commentary (Eng)

Tamara Stefanovich
studied at the University of Belgrade, at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the ?Hochschule für Musik und Tanz? in Cologne. She has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski and Pierre Boulez, and has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. She performed Debussy?s ?Images I? and ?II? in 2011 for the ?Klavier-Festival Ruhr?. Together with Pierre- Laurent Aimard she prepared the fingering for the ?Klavier-Festival Ruhr? Bärenreiter Piano Album (BA 9659). / [Images 1ère Serie] / Classique / Partition / Agrafé /

Commandé par le Gilmore Festival et créée par Gilbert Kalish, ce travail comprend J.S. Bach aria original et 12 nouvelles variations par Del Tredici, Foss, Hersch, Bolcom, Sheng, Higdon, Gothoni, Curtis-Smith, Zupko, Walden, Bermel et Lerdahl. Il a été effectué deux fois au Festival de clavier Gilmore (une fois par Kalish lui-même) et en 2006 par Lori Sims). / Piano

Level 2 Upper Elementary Level-6 fun to play solos: Carnival of Venice - Come Back to Sorrento (deCurtis) - Mattinata (Leoncavallo) - O Sole Mio (diCapua) - Santa Lucia - Serenade (Toselli).