Primadonna

SKU: PO.PE046

SKU: PO.PE062

ISBN 9781877218620.

Suit able for pianists of medium ability, But I Want the Harmonica is one of Greenbaum's most recorded works for piano. As a child, the composer was asked which item he would choose if stranded alone in a boat: a fishing rod, a cake, a harmonica or a book – the work's title is taken from the composer's response. Constructed on minimalist procedures, at its core is a falling motive of gradually expanding intervals, all extracted from the D major scale which is the piece's harmonic centre.

SKU: PO.PEL11

ISBN 9781776605514.

This volume comprises of Lilburn's four piano sonatas. The sonata in F sharp minor is a work of pure Romantic sensibility, while the sonata for piano in A minor reveals Lilburn's very sharply realised visual sense. There is a bracing, lyrical power to his 1949 sonata, the curve and grain of the music partaking of an impressive physical space. The second sonata, from 1956, provides an outstanding example of Lilburn's orchestration of piano colour and his sensitive balancing of tonal relationships.

SKU: PO.PE098

ISBN 9781877218958.

Fire starters 3 brings to print a collection of nine works for solo piano by Jazz musician Mike Nock. This collection ranges in ability and style – from the gentle lullaby Sho's Cradle Song to the fiery Cartwheels, Nock's piano music is ideal for both students and professionals.Renowned pianists Michael Kieren Harvey (Australia) and Michael Houstoun (New Zealand) have performed and recorded works from the collection. The volume is accompanied by a CD containing midi realisations created by the composer.

SKU: PO.PE100

ISBN 9781877218316.

An exciting and virtuosic work for solo piano, Mouse Hole requires fast fingerwork and dares the pianist to keep pace with the scurrying rodent evoked by the speedy streams of semiquavers that define the work. This work perfectly illuminates Farr's penchant for rhythmic propulsion that typifies much of his musical output. The persistent semiquaver material in the right hand is underpinned with syncopated supporting material in the left, making it highly engaging for listeners. It is an energetic and challenging work that is sure to bring a huge amount of fun to any undergraduate or professional piano recital.

SKU: PO.PE204

SKU: PO.PE201

ISBN 9781776609215.

A master in the art of counterpoint, Borden initially derived the musical material of each of the preludes and fugues in this collection from the letters of the name of the person to whom it is dedicated. Using the Pythagorean numerology alphabet, the remaining letters in the name were matched to a number, and then these numbers were assigned to the pitches of a mode that best fit the name. Once a suitable mode was found, and each letter assigned its pitch, the rhythmic shape of the fugue subject was determined.

SKU: PO.PEL13

ISBN 9781776605538.

This gathering of shorter pieces includes music that Lilburn composed in his initial years as a freelance composer, as well as the very last work to come from his pen. Clear-eyed and felicitous, they are nevertheless shot through with something transcendental – a strange and beautiful excitement.

SKU: PO.PEL09

ISBN 9781877564680.

Piec es for Piano introduces students of intermediate to advanced levels (Grades V to VIII) to some of the most loved, interesting and more unusual of Lilburn's works for piano. Here he provides Christmas celebrations for his friends, breathes the fresh air of mountains and ocean, and explores unusual modes and tone rows, discovering a strange but nevertheless beautiful atonality. Fingering has been added to help the less experienced performer. .

SKU: PO.PE090

ISBN 9781877218903.

Slee per was commissioned by the James Wallace Arts Trust for pianist Stephen De Pledge, as part of his programme of works by New Zealand composers, collectively titled Landscape Preludes. De Pledge first performed and presented this programme at the New Zealand International Arts Festival on 28 February 2008.

SKU: PO.PE014

ISBN 9781877218149.

Idea l for pianists looking for a work heavy in bravura, Sepuluh Jari is an exhilarating toccata incorporating non-Western styles. Drawing on the Indian saraswati scale and Balinese pelog scale for its harmonic material, Farr creates cascading scalar passages that eventually arrive at joyous declamatory moments. Its challenging passages require swift finger work, with insistent pulsed material is interspersed with elastic rushes of energy and brief snatches of stillness and reflection.

SKU: PO.UME05P

ISBN 9781877564956.

A Tedious Brief Scene: Bottom's Dance (2011) is a fine example of Holmes work from her career as a composer and educator in New Zealand for over 25 years. Holmes was inspired to depict the character Bottom from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in writing this lighthearted work. It is highly engaging and energetic with elements of minimalist techniques of layered melodic ostinati, and jazz-influenced and non-tonal harmony. Like the character and scene from Shakespeare's play, the music oscillates between moments of poignancy and boisterous self-confidence. It incorporates a variety of accented rhythmic patterns, changing metres and delicate melodic material, which gives pianists an opportunity to demonstrate their individual and combined talents as a chamber ensembles. It is suitable for performance by secondary students of approximately Grade VIII and above (ABRSM / Trinity).It is now available for purchase as a study score and/or performance set (parts only). This listing is the performance set of parts only.

SKU: PO.ME27

ISBN 9780958296793.

Idea l for players keen to delve into piano music of one of New Zealand's premiere composers, Centrifugues (1987) possesses a motion generated from a spinning trill with an attendant tattoo of accented repeated notes, creating an expansive resonance that has an air of brilliancy about it. A compelling testament to a composer who sees music as one of the great powers of the universe, ranking alongside electrical, gravitational and magnetic energy as a force to be manipulated and controlled.

SKU: PO.PE212

ISBN 9781776609321.

Insp ired by the Chinese Zodiac animals, Ho tailored this book of twelve piano compositions to the educational needs of students in Levels 2 to 7 of the Royal Conservatory of Music Piano Series. Ho devoted much time to researching the animals legends, personality traits, and cultural significance, as well as their distinguishing physical languages so as to capture their musical spirit and recreate their physical/gestural languages in pianistic form. In addition, he incorporates many sounds, harmonies, and performance techniques learned from his years of researching (and composing for) Chinese traditional instruments.

SKU: PO.ME06

ISBN 9780994114365.

The second of two books of piano works by Carr contains six varied pieces. Nocturne in A minor is a melancholic pas de deux, The Darkening evokes a summer sunset on Waiheke Island, while Poltergeist is a hectice scherzo. As with Book 1, all works have been selected for the Royal Schools alternative C list piano syllabus. Pastorale, The Darkening and A Legend are suitable for Grade 6, Nocturne in A minor and Poltergeist are suitable for Grade 7, while Seashore has been selected for Grade 8.

SKU: PO.PE030

ISBN 9781877218309.

Firs t Light is a fresh addition to solo piano repertoire that draws inspiration equally from Romantic music, such as Chopin, and contemporary composers such as the American pianists Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock. The work is driven primarily by modal writing and jazz-styled voicings, while following a Western classical trajectory of development and exploration of the opening melodies.

SKU: PO.PEL07

ISBN 9781877564666.

The Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Edition was established to accompany Trust Records award-winning recorded collection of the same name. The seventh volume in a series of eight, it comprises Prelude (1951), Five Bagatelles (1942), Three Pieces (1965), and Christmas 1943.

SKU: PO.PE136

ISBN 9781877564369.

Gem was commissioned by pianist Nicola Melville, in memory of her teacher Judith Clark. This mysterious work is a contemplative rubato journey, predominantly along the black keys of the piano. Short flourishes of notes reach into the instrument's upper register, releasing notes in delicate droplets, particularly affecting when decorating the work's searching theme. Accelerated ascending runs lead to a climax of tumbling high register figures in contrary motion with the left hand.

SKU: PO.PEL08

ISBN 9781877564673.

The  Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Edition was established to accompany Trust Records award-winning recorded collection of the same name. The final volume in a series of eight, it comprises Andante Sostenuto (1964), Piece in E major (c. 1942), Prelude (1950), A Christmas Offering (1944), and Sonatina No.2 (1962).

SKU: PO.PEL05

ISBN 9781877564642.

The Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Edition was established to accompany Trust Records award-winning recorded collection of the same. This fifth volume comprises Lilburn's Chaconne (1946), Six Pieces (1964), Three Preludes (1943), Fred's Birthday (1965), and Rondino for a Birthday (c.1943).

SKU: PO.PEL12

ISBN 9781776605521.

This volume contains Lilburn's two piano sonatinas. Sonatina No.1 (1946) combines geometric patterning of classical forms with the distinctive simplicity of colour and line that the composer so admired in the work of the regionalist painters. The first movement hymns a fundamental vitality ‚Äì a fresh start in the morning land that is New Zealand; an almost geological majesty pervades the second movement and a three-note motive sets the finale in motion. Composed in the Autumn of 1962, Sonatina No.2, together with Symphony No.3, provides the fullest expression of Lilburn's last notated music before he turned to the electroacoustic medium. Spare, elegant and eloquent, both the sonatina and the symphony are rich and distinctive works that maintain a tension that keeps them taut as cords in our collective memory. Although the pianists who know the sonatina so well from the inside talk of its subtleties, beauty, delicacy and meaning, it will always be a work of immediate appeal, a work that is as much a delight to listen to as to play, a work that can be enjoyed as pure music.

SKU: PO.PEL04

ISBN 9781877564635.

The Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Edition was established to accompany Trust Record's award-winning CD collection of the same. This fourth volume of eight comprises Lilburn's Sonatina No.1 (1946), Short Piece (1961), Prelude (1948), Untitled Piece (1965), Untitled Piece (1981) and A Musical Offering (1941). This selection of Lilburn's piano music provides substantial insight into his compositional style at various points in his career.

SKU: PO.PEL06

ISBN 9781877564659.

The Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Edition was established to accompany Trust Records award-winning recorded collection of the same name. The sixth volume in a series of eight, it comprises Lilburn's Sonata for Piano in F Sharp Minor (1939), Poco Lento (1960), The Young Pine Tree (1945), Hommage à D.A.F. (c.1965), Theme from Variations on a Theme by Douglas Lilburn (1948), and Christmas 1942 (1942).

SKU: PO.PE161

ISBN 9781877564567. 30.5 x 22 cm inches.

Nostalgia was originally intended as an encore piece for Ho's percussion concerto The Shaman. Now it is available as a stand-alone arrangement for solo piano. The evocative and lyrical lines of the original work for vibraphone also lends well to the sustained resonance of the piano. Ho expresses a sense of nostalgia throughout the work with simple melody lines and ebbing accompaniment. The work also has virtuosic flare with fast cascading lines and textural flourishes. Nostalgia is an excellent work for creating a beautiful and thoughtful point within recital programmes. Nostalgia also exists in a version for solo vibraphone.

SKU: PO.PE128

ISBN 9781877564284. 30.5 x 22 cm inches.

Balinese Pieces (1996-2003) is a set of three piano works influenced by gamelan music of Indonesia. This set includes Sepuluh Jari (ten fingers), Tentang Cara Gamelan (on the technique of gamelan), and Jangan Lupa (dont forget). Farr perfectly captures the exciting rhythms and beautiful sonorities of this gamelan music and combines it with sounds and textures reminiscent of French impressionism. His writing for piano in these pieces is virtuosic with fast melodic passages and complex rhythms. The three pieces can be performed together as a set or separately as stand-alone works. Balinese Pieces is sure to be a highlight in any professional piano recital programme.

SKU: PO.PE042

ISBN 9781877218422.

Dyin g of the Light is suitable for pianists wishing to incorporate reflection and social commentary into their repertoire. A tribute to HIV sufferers and a response to the hysteria and bigotry surrounding the disease, an extramusical trajectory is clear here, particularly at the end ‚Äì despite bursts of life and attempts of will to overcome decay, death overtakes. Yet beyond the sense of tragedy and outrage at untimely suffering and death, there is a feeling of transcendent positivity.