Selected Works for Piano

39 popular works for piano featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Preface by Young Musician of the Year Martin James Bartlett.

Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics-The Developing Artist: Piano Literature - Book 4 is a collection of authentic Keyboard literature for the late-intermediate level pianist.This book contains carefully selected repertoire from the Baroque Classical Romantic and Contemporary periods. Historical text on the major periods of music history is presented at the beginning of the book. The Developing Artist: Piano Literature - Book 4 offers a wealth of pieces to enrich Piano or Keyboard students' repertoire with works spanning all periods and styles. The pieces presented in this fabulous book have been compiled and edited by Nancy and Randall Faber.

The Piano Bench Of Classical Music is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This tremendous piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the pianist who loves classical music. No other single volume can provide the wealth of exquisite piano selections contained within these pages. Here you will find the world's greatest inventions, movements, nocturnes, valses, mazurkas, intermezzos, romantic short pieces, impressionist works, and light classics - as well as the most rewarding traditional arrangements of themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries. / Piano

Some of the most beautiful and diverse pieces by some of the finest composers in recent history are included in this enormous Library Of Modern Piano Music. Such a comprehensive collection of brilliant works for solo Piano belies the rich quality and sheer amount of music being composed that just begs to be learned. Over 100 fantastic pieces are guaranteed to keep you learning from this truly classic selection until the next century!The Library Of Modern Piano Music boasts an unprecedented volume and variety of amazing compositions, some well-known, some more unfamiliar, some composed as standalone pieces and others as film scores, but the one thing uniting them all is their impeccable musicality and how enjoyable they are to play. Featuring the biggest names in contemporary classical music, composers like Einaudi lend their wonderful compositions (Primavera, Una Mattina), and all-round geniuses like Philip Glass are represented with a generous selection of their finest work (Metamorphosis Five, Opening Piece From Glassworks and more).The varied progression of Piano music through the 20th century to the present day has given rise to an exceptionally vast and diverse repertoire. The unbelievable depth of the composers included here means you'll rarely be stuck for something to play. Kaija Saariaho, Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Dustin O'Halloran, Nico Muhly and Witold Lutoslawski are genuinely just a fraction of the composers featured in The Library Of Modern Piano Music. Some great standalone compositions like Samuel Barber's incomparable Adagio For Strings sit aside excerpts from longer works like a portion of Edward Gregson's An Album For My Friends or Joby Talbot's Once Around The Sun.If you happen to be a fan of film and television scores, a taste of Michael Nyman's distinguished score for The Piano is included, a section from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as parts of Richard Rodney Bennett's score for the now rarely-seen but superb 1980s miniseries of Tender Is The Night. Many established composers are included in this collection who are widely-recognised as masters. However, The Library Of Modern Piano Music also includes many young virtuosos who have not yet achieved that status but are certainly well on their way.These original compositions span standalone pieces, albums, suites and arrangements from diverse talents, making The Library Of Modern Piano Music a collection that is certain to be seen by future generations as a perfect collection of the best of contemporary classical music. / Piano

In Concert contains nine piano works selected from the Diploma of the London College of Music (DipLCM) Piano Syllabus. These works give a snapshot of the huge range of repertoire available to pianists today spanning nearly three hundred years of music from all over the world. We hope that this collection of works will provide inspiration for building original and creative concert programmes be it in the exam room at an audition ora professional recital. In Concert includes an introduction and performance notes from one of the world’s most innovative musicians Joanna MacGregor — concert pianist curator collaborator Headof Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of the University of London. Joanna’s distinctive insights into the technical and interpretative aspects of each work are drawn from her own extensive performingexperience. As a director of numerous innovative festivals and concert series she is also uniquely qualified to write about how to build a programme one of the most creative and important skills for a musician to develop.

Fantasias and Selected Works. Par BYRD WILLIAM. William Byrd is one of the great English composers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Today this creative Catholic at the Anglican court of Elisabeth I is known primarily for his masses, motets and madrigals. However, in addition to vocal music he also composed an impressive number of keyboard pieces that brook comparison in quality with those of his younger contemporaries Frescobaldi and Sweelinck. This edition contains a selection of his major works for keyboard instruments, some taken from such famous collections as the 'Fitzwilliam Virginal Book”, 'Parthenia” and 'My Ladye Nevells Booke”. In addition to five large-scale fantasias, including the monumental 'Fantasia in a”, there are smaller preludes and voluntaries and three contrapuntal hexachord settings. The Foreword offers a detailed overview and evaluation of the sources, brief descriptions of the pieces and valuable information on notation and performance practice./ Répertoire / Piano, Clavier ou Orgue

Advanced-Eight Grade 7 studies selected by the ABRSM. Including works by Muzio Clementi Ignaz Moscheles and Carl Czerny.

This collection contains 55 notable works by some of the world's best-known composers in the classical tradition. Spanning over 250 years, from Bach to Rachmaninoff, players can enjoy an inspiring journey through the history of classical music whilst learning to play these celebrated compositions. Short biographies are included for selected composers, allowing players to gain further insight into their lives and works.All the pieces in this book have been arranged in Easy Piano format in a considered and thoughtful fashion, retaining as much of the original musical substance as possible.Everybody's Favorite Easy Piano Pieces contains Massenet's Meditation from Thais, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Holst's Jupiter from The Planets, Debussy's Clair De Lune, Handel's The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba, Grieg's Morning from Peer Gynt, Schubert's Death And The Maiden and many more of the greatest classical pieces ever composed. / Piano

14 popular works for Flute with Piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes pull-out part, and performance notes by Trevor Wye. / Flûte Traversière Et Piano

15 popular works for Alto-Saxophone with Piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes pull-out part, and performance notes by Amy Dickson. / Saxophone Alto Et Piano

Included are selected works from a number of Schumann's collections such as Albumblätter (Opus 124) Album for the Young (Opus 68) Forest Scenes (Opus 82) Fantasy Pieces (Opus 12) and the complete Scenes from Childhood (Opus 15). Also included is a complete biography of Schumann a useful preface including performance notes on each piece and a full performance CD by the editor Joseph Banowetz. Joseph Banowetz graduated with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst. Banowetz has been a piano recitalist and orchestral soloist on five continents. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in recognition of hisoutstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.