Featuring some of the world's greatest pieces of music from a variety of different genres the 'Top Ten' series contains music for everyone. Whether you're a beginner who wants to know the best classical pieces to learn or amore experienced player looking for the ultimate Piano songs to add to your repertoire we have a 'Top Ten' for you! Each piece comes with interesting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight. The TopTen Most Calming Pieces To Play On Piano contains ten of the world's most relaxing Piano pieces composed by some of the best-known composers of the last two hundred years including Frédéric Chopin Jules Massenet Philip Glass and Yiruma. We've roamed freely across the past two centuries of music to create this tranquil Pianoselection for you. There's a piece each by Chopin and Liszt two major stars of the early Romantic era; a couple of jewels from the Parisian belle epoque by Satie and Massenet; unforgettable melodies from the pens of Dvorak andRachmaninoff; while closer to our own time there's beautiful music by Philip Glass Neil Cowley and Ludovico Einaudi. Let life's stresses melt away as you take a deep breath and lose yourself in these precious musicalmoments...

Those interested in French music have often had reason to be grateful to Roger Nichols; his writings on Debussy Ravel Messiaen and Poulenc are indispensable to the music lover.Nichols now turns his attentions to the mélodie where it is his mission to encourage singers to explore beyond the well-trodden paths of French song. In these two anthologies he does not ignore masterpieces by composers of the stature of Fauré and Duparc but sets them alongside music - almost impossible to find elsewhere in print - by such under-estimated figures as Reber Viardot Massé and Paladilhe.Even the more celebrated songs are often not easilyfound in practical editions which makes this selection an ideal starting point for wider exploration. In each of these volumes the songs appear in the chronological order of their composer's birth but Nichols somehow contrives a line-up of music which seems delightfully arbitrary at the same time as carefully designed to enrich everyone's understanding of the mélodie. The books also contain a remarkable amount of scholarship lightly worn and pithily expressed.As well as complete translations of the songs there is a useful and concise introduction on singing in French together with an illuminating historical note and critical commentary; and Nichols gives full due to the poets who were of crucial importance in the development of the mélodie tradition.Complete with translations and guidance on pronunciationReber GuitareGounod Le soirGounod Le premier jour de maiViardot Les deux rosesViardot La mésangeFranck NocturneMassé SouvenirsLalo Chant BretonSaint-Saëns Chanson tristeBizet Vieille chanson Massenet Madrigal