Four Scottish Sonatas

This new addition to the ‘Baroque Around the World’ series invites you to explore exciting new repertoire by Scotland’s Baroque composers: Oswald Reid McGibbon and Mackintosh!This collection includes the first modern edition of Mackintosh’s G minor Sonata. These pieces are ideal for auditions and exams as well as concerts and can be performed as whole sonatas or single movements. The accompaniments are simple and effective; the instrumentation is flexible – suitable for violin or flute and cello or bassoon plus keyboard. The sonatas are newly researched by the Scottish musicologist David Johnson. The CD includes complete performances as well asplay-along tracks.

Beloved for his wonderfully lyrical gift as well as for the innovations of form and harmony he brought to his music, Franz Schubert helped pioneer the Romantic piano style as he influenced later composers. This attractive compilation of his most accessible piano music displays that musical brilliance in a variety of his best-loved pieces. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf