Reproduced from authoritative sources this modestly priced compilation presents favourite piano works of the Romantic era. Unlike many other anthologies of music from the period which vary widely in the quality of their content this collection features works of consistent excellence. Intermediate and advanced pianists will find these carefully chosen pieces a splendid representation of Romantic keyboard works.  Selections include Chopin's Ballade No.1 in G Minor Op.23 as well as Fantasie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor Op.66; Two Pieces from Tannhäuser and Lohengrin by Liszt; Rachmaninoff's Polichinellefrom Morceaux de Fantaisie Op.3 No.4 ('Punch') and Sonata No.1 in D Minor Op.28; and Schumann's Variationen über den Namen Abegg Op.1 and Studien nach Capricen von Paganini Op.3.

A Romantic Sketchbook For Piano explores the wealth of piano music from the Romantic period in five carefully graded albums. Mostly composed between 1830 and 1930 the pieces in these albums have been selected to introduce players to a wide range of music from works by some of the leading Romantic composers (such as Schumann Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky) to unfamiliar pieces by lesser-known figures.Each volume presents a variety of keys time signatures and textures within a comprehensive range of tempi which will be invaluable to students in the development of their musical skills. Players will also respond imaginatively to the varying styles and moods offeredin these colourful sketchbooks from the lively dances and mood pictures to the tender songs and gentle serenades.The five books in this series are graded in terms of difficulty Book 1 being relatively easy and Book 5 advanced.

Piano-A specially selected anthology of pieces from the masters of the Romantic style all suitable for the intermediate-advanced Piano student. From Brahms and Chopin to Schumann and Tchaikovsky 16 great Piano works of the Romantic era have been chosen and edited by Christine Brown to offer you a satisfying and highly rewarding repertoire that will suit almost every musical occasion. Pieces include a Mazurka a Prelude and a Waltz from the celebrated collections by Chopin Mendelssohn's Venetian Gondola Song and Tchaikovsky's beautifully expressive Song Of The Lark. Unmissable works that all players should have in their library!

Within Succeeding with the Masters® Romantic Era Volume Two comes the intermediate through early-advanced pieces by Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky and Chopin. As with all of the books in Succeeding with the Masters® Dr. Marlais presents each work within the context of its social and historical time. Valuable practice strategies for each piece help teachers guide their students in developing the correct technique and musical style. Just listen to your students take off when they realize that they can play pieces by the greatest composers who have ever lived. Students want to succeed and when they succeed with the masters they know that they havedone something special. There is no better motivator!

And New England Idyls-Edward MacDowell (1860 1908) was America's most prominent nineteenth-century composer. Championed by Franz Liszt he was one of the first U.S. composers to gain international recognition. A leading exponent of theRomantic tradition he was a prolific composer for the Piano. This outstanding collection presents his best most characteristic works reprinted from original editions. They include:Woodland Sketches Op.51Sea Pieces Op. 55Fireside Tales Op. 61New England Idyls Op. 62These beautiful and affecting compositions reflect not only MacDowell's poetic Romanticism but also hisvirtuosic skills as a pianist which won him an international reputation as a concert artist. Intermediate- and advanced-level pianists will appreciate the lyric intensity and ebullient spirit of these pieces.

Music Minus One Piano-Rachmaninov's composition teacher famed Russian composer Anton Arensky wrote these lovely and simple piano duets which run the gamut of emotion in true Russian Romantic style. Stravinsky's wonderful dances round out this charming album with a tongue-in-cheek pair of parts one extremely easy the other a dizzying rhythmic joke! Stravinsky loved these three pieces so much that he later orchestrated them as Nos. 1-3 of his Suite No. 2 for small orchestra. A must-have for the less advanced student who wants to play luscious Russian Romantic music! Includes complete printed music score with both primo and secondo piano parts and a compact disc featuring the duets in twoformats: split-channel stereo with secondo part on the left channel primo on the right so you can play either part and then again with just the secondo part in stereo so you can perform the primo part alongside. Performed by Sondra Bianca piano Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen piano

A phenomenal Piano virtuoso and noteworthy member of 19th century Parisian society Charles Valentin-Alkan was among Liszt's contemporaries and one of Chopin's close friends. Unlike his legendary companions Alkan gradually slipped into obscurity in his own day because of his eccentric ways.Twenty years later - epitomising the near-theatrical lives of the great Romantics - the composer emerged to present his mature works to an astonished public including some of the most extraordinary most challenging compositions ever written.This collection includes three monumental works from Alkan's 'Twelve Studies In All Minor Keys'Op. 39. as well as three smaller works which complete the edition. Pianists of advanced skills - and student's of music's great revolutionary masters - will welcome this new treasury of hard to find pieces selected and with commentary by Marc-Andre Hamelin the Piano virtuoso who has performed Alkan's music worldwide and recorded the composer's major works.

36 Original Piano Pieces Instrument : piano Nombre de Pages : 72 The music teacher and pianist Monika Twelsiek adds a new selection of piano works around the subject of Night and Dreams to the Piano Classics series. At any time, the night was a theme in literature, art and music. 'Night' and 'Dream' are emotional images which evoke vastly different emotions in different people. The night is a place of peace and security, of longing and love, of secrets, imagination and dreams. But night also means strangeness, loneliness, fear, danger and crime. The collection 'Night and Dreams' with works from the Romantic piano literature to new contemporary sounds tries to capture all of these nightly emotions. Apart from a plethora of folk-song-like lullabies, numerous fantastic dream pieces and descriptions of dangerous night scenes have been added to the collection. An alluring mixture of imagination and reality, for advanced piano pupils and lovers of piano music. Content : P. Zilcher: Lullaby, op. 93/4 - G. Nevada: A Little Dreamy - A. Gretchaninoff: Lullaby, op. 98 - C. Gurlitt: 4 Reverie, op. 210 - R. Volkmann: Night Song, op. 17 - R. Schumann: Lullaby, op. 124 - J. Senfter: Lullaby - F. Burgmüller: Lullaby, op. 109 - P. Tschaikowsky: Sweet Reverie, op. 39 - R. Fuchs: Lullaby, op. 32 - E. Satie: Lullaby - K.-H. Pick: Sleeping Beauty is Sleeping - H. Regner: Phantasmagoria - B. Heller: Evening Flower - G. Nevada: When Paris Dreams - J. Turina: The Village Sleeps - E. Pütz: Sleep Well Blues - J. Kember: Midnight Blue - G. Nevada: Starry Dome - E. Grieg: Lullaby, op. 38 - A. Gretchaninoff: Bed Time, op. 109 - Nightly Event, op. 115 - K. Slavicky: The Evil Dream - B. Martinu: The Cats' Procession in the Solstice Night - R. Schumann: Reverie, op. 15 - Child Falling Asleep, op. 20 - A. Rubinstein: The Night, op. 44/1 - L. He: Lullaby - E. Pütz: Night of Love - J. Field: Nocturne B major, op. 9/2 - Nocturne E major, op. 72/1 - E. Grieg: Notturno, op. 54 - C. Debussy: Reverie - W. Killmayer: Nocturne III - P. Hindemith: Fantastic Duet of Two Trees at the Window, op. 15

This Piano suite written in 1911 is Enrique Granados’ most famous work even considered his crowning creation. Goyescas consists of 6 movements inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya although the Piano pieces have not been authoritatively associated with any particular paintings.The Piano writing of the Spanish composer and acclaimed pianist is highly ornamented and extremely difficult to master which is especially true for this grand piece. Just as many of his other Piano works this suit has been transcribed for the classical Guitar and has so become not only part of the standard Romantic Piano repertoire but is also extensivelyplayed by skilled guitarists.Goyescas displays a wide array of styles moods and techniques the best known movement from the suite Quejas ó la maja y el ruiseñor resembles a nocturne but is filled with intricate figuration and glittering bird-like trills while El amor y la muerte has a strong improvisational feel. Not only does this virtuoso arrangement of Spanish tunes provide a welcome challenge to advanced pianists it is also guaranteed to dazzle audiences everywhere!

The Easy Concert Pieces series by the experienced piano teacher Monika Twelsiek presents easy piano pieces for beginners in progressive order. Three volumes have already been published.These pieces are intended to complement a piano tutorial method and are particularly suitable for performance at auditions concerts competitions and examinations. They offer varied repertoire in a broad selection of pieces from the Baroque Classical Romantic and Modern eras.Volume 3 is aimed at advanced players who wish to refine their expression and personal interpretation. The pieces demand a great deal of dexterity a high sense of rhythm articulation and phrasing polyphonic playing (polyphony even in one hand) and tonal differentiation of the piano setting.

Christian Sinding's six Piano Pieces Op. 32 have become world famous due to third piece Rustle of Spring. Sinding's music combines late-Romantic tonal charm with mysterious Nordic cadences, also typical of Edvard Grieg or Niels W. Gade. The sometimes virtuosic character does not rival the complexity of Franz Liszt, meaning some pieces remain within the grasp of the advanced pupil. The whole opus, available in the original version for the first time, is based on a critical comparison of the first edition with the composer's autograph. The six pieces are each of a different character and level of difficulty. For both music lessons and concert performances, they are a welcome addition to the late 19th century piano repertoire. / Piano

11 well-known pieces arranged for piano-In The Elgar Piano Album you will find eleven masterpieces by Edward Elgar including the world-famous and typically English Pomp And Circumstance March No.1 - better known as Land Of Hope And Glory. With bold intervals syncopated rhythms and rubato melodies the romantic music of Elgar is musically sophisticated - as are the arrangements in this book but technically they are a little less demanding. They come close to the original works as possible. A fine choice for the moderately advanced Pianist!

This essential collection of 100 piano études is divided into 15 units that survey the technical challenges at the early intermediate, intermediate, and late intermediate levels. The early units review technical issues that students experience at the elementary levels, such as five-finger patterns and articulations. The later units introduce more difficult technical challenges that prepare students for advanced repertoire, such as playing ornamentation, octaves, and large chords. Each unit contains between five and ten études written by master composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Within each unit, the études are arranged in order of difficulty. Each piece appears in its original form - notes have not been added or removed. The composers' original dynamics, tempo marks, phrase indications, and articulations have been preserved. Ornamentation is realized in footnotes. Added measure numbers provide easy reference, and editorial suggestions for fingering and pedaling have been provided. A concise foreword discusses technique at the intermediate levels. Two indexes are included: one by unit and technical skill, and another by level and composer.Unit listing: Five-Finger Patterns * Articulation * Coordination between the Hands * Scales * Triads, Inversions, and Broken Chords * Double Notes * Left-Hand Development * Velocity * Arpeggios * Finger and Hand Independence * Repeated Notes * Accompaniment Patterns * Ornamentation * Octaves * Four- and Five-Note Chords. / Piano

The first major piano work by consummate Scandinavian composers Carl Nielsen. This accurate critical edition of Symphonic Suite contains extensive notes on the method of revision and comments on the historical context of the work by Mina F. Miller. With it's heart rooted firmly in the Romantic era tradition it is dynamic and has an advanced harmonic approach which became characteristic of Nielsen's work.

This original collection of jazz solos asks the musical question Do certain keys suggest a color? These haunting nocturnes written in minor keys depict the lyrical moods and textures associated with certain colors: Nocturne in Rose (romantic) Nocturne in Blue (reflective) Nocturne in Black & White (film noir) and Nocturne in Violet (sumptuous) have been written especially for the early advanced pianist. While written for the acoustic piano they will also sound effective when played on digital or electric pianos.