Baroque Keyboard Anthology Vol. 1: Piano: Instrumental Album

30 works. The early music specialist and flautist, Annabel Knight, presents the second in a series of four volumes dedicated to flute music from the Baroque period. Featuring a variety of interesting pieces scored for flute and keyboard accompaniment, this collection includes works by well-known figures as well as lesser known and rarely available pieces from a range of other composers.Suitable for students of ca. 4-5 years? of playing experience, this book includes composer biographies and teaching notes on each piece, together with a CD recording of all works performed by Annabel Knight and Robin Bigwood.

36 Works-The early music specialist and flautist Annabel Knight presents the first in a series of four volumes dedicated to flute music from the Baroque period. Featuring 36 beautiful pieces scored for flute and keyboard accompaniment this collection includes works by well known figures such as Bach Handel and Rameau as well as lesser-known and rarely available pieces from a range of other composers. Suitable for students of c.2-3 years of playing experience this book includes composer biographies and teaching notes on each piece together with a CD recording of all works performed by Annabel Knight and Robin Bigwood.

The early music specialist and harpsichordist, Robin Bigwood presents the first in a series of four volumes dedicated to keyboard music from the Baroque period. Featuring a variety of interesting solo pieces, this collection includes works by well-known figures as well as lesser-known and rarely available pieces from a range of composers.Suitable for students of ca.2-3 years of playing experience, this book includes composer biographies and teaching notes on each piece, together with a CD recording of all works performed by Robin Bigwood. / Piano

32 Pieces for Soprano (Descant) Recorder and Piano-Author of the Baroque Recorder Anthology series Peter Bowman presents the first in a series of four volumes dedicated to Recorder music from the Renaissance period. Featuring a variety of interesting pieces scored for Recorder and Keyboard accompaniment this collection includes works by well-known figures as well as lesser known and rarely available pieces from a range of other composers. Suitable for students of ca. 2-3 years? of playing experience this book includes composer biographies and teaching notes on each piece together with a CD recording of all works performed by Kathryn Bennetts.

Unlike many anthologies of Baroque keyboard music which include pieces that vary widely in merit this excellent volume comprises only the greatest works of the era. Intermediate and advanced pianists will find that these carefully chosen pieces offer a rewarding and satisfying reflection of the glories of the Baroque.

Grades 6-7-Beautifully presented and thoroughly readable 'modern' editions of the best of these pre-Baroque masterpieces. Carefully graded.It has often struck me as intriguing that The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (a collection of keyboard music spanning the period c.1562-1612) occupies a virtually non-existent place in the literature considered viable by pianists.Needless to say harpsichordists continue to hold the music in the highest esteem while a number of transcriptions for instruments and ensembles have been made available in more recent times. How can it be that this ancient heritage - which in keyboard music terms might be regarded as the equivalent to the DeadSea Scrolls - has hitherto seemed a no-go area for pianists? It is as if the first 'proper' keyboard music tumbled miraculously out of some parallel universe around Bach's time i.e. the first half of the 18th century. While our modern piano is perhaps as different from a virginal as a washing machine is from a mangle there are in fact a good many facets of virginal music which read across perfectly well to today's instruments. For this to be possible we need to take the time to look beyond peculiarities in translation which to a significant extent comes down to issues resulting from burgeoning notational practices. It also becomes necessary to re-imagine the music in light of what is possible as well as what is desirable. Problems with accessing the sound-world of pre-Baroque keyboard music can be overcome quite easily just as it is possible to become better in resonance with avant garde musical styles given appropriate immersion. Since the writing of the performance notes to The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book more than a century ago (by J.A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire) the momentum generated by the Early Music Revival has brought about immeasurable insights into the intentions of Renaissance and Baroque composers. Performances on period instruments continue to reacquaint us with a bygone age and stimulate a healthy fascination for the

A sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the Baroque era by composers ranging from Henry Purcell to J.S. Bach and beyond all presented in one superb volume for the solo Piano.The music of the Baroque ischaracterised by innovation and invention both in the compositions of the great courts and of the church. With a melting pot of styles reaching back to the complex polyphony of the Renaissance while simultaneously pushingforwards towards the diatonic elegance of the later Classical era it is no surprise that such masterpieces as Pachelbel's Canon In D and Handel's Zadok The Priest are as popular today as ever.Every piece inthis anthology is rich in heritage and familiar to the ears of music lovers the world over. Take this opportunity to transform your repertoire - the music has been expertly adapted to appeal to the intermediate soloist whilstretaining all the beauty and character of the original works. There's simply no better way to discover the music of the masters.

Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich. Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century, the master of an individual school that merged continental influences into a vigorous native tradition of keyboard writing. There are preludes, dances and grounds in this anthology, which is selected from Volume 73 of Musica Britannica, and also includes advice on ornamentation and a comprehensive editorial note. Along with its companion volume of 16 organ pieces, K43, this collection is an important addition to Stainer and Bell's landmark Early English Keyboard series.