Best Of Chopin: Piano: Instrumental Album

Featuring some of the world's greatest pieces of music from a variety of different genres the 'Top Ten' series contains music for everyone. Whether you're a beginner who wants to know the best classical pieces to learn or amore experienced player looking for the ultimate Piano songs to add to your repertoire we have a 'Top Ten' for you! Each piece comes with interesting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight. The TopTen Most Calming Pieces To Play On Piano contains ten of the world's most relaxing Piano pieces composed by some of the best-known composers of the last two hundred years including Frédéric Chopin Jules Massenet Philip Glass and Yiruma. We've roamed freely across the past two centuries of music to create this tranquil Pianoselection for you. There's a piece each by Chopin and Liszt two major stars of the early Romantic era; a couple of jewels from the Parisian belle epoque by Satie and Massenet; unforgettable melodies from the pens of Dvorak andRachmaninoff; while closer to our own time there's beautiful music by Philip Glass Neil Cowley and Ludovico Einaudi. Let life's stresses melt away as you take a deep breath and lose yourself in these precious musicalmoments...

Ease away the stresses of the day with two collections of beautiful tranquil music.Put your feet up and enjoy the best-selling Chillout With Chopin CD from Naxos containing 13 favourite masterpieces. Then explore the complementary collection of Piano music with a hand-picked selection of your favourite slow movements and gentle themes by this great composer.

Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation of classics. Each piece was carefully selected and simplified to help students develop their skills. Many of the greatest composersâ??J. S. Bach Beethoven Brahms Mendelssohn Mozart Rimsky-Korsakov Rachmaninoff Tchaikovsky and othersâ??are represented by several pieces each some newly adapted for the piano. Composers and works not usually featured in beginner's books include pieces by Borodin Gluck Rameau and Tallis.Well-known classics include Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Debussy's Claire de Lune Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition Satie'sGymnopedie No. 1 Schumann's Child Falling Asleep and 'Spring' from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Several orchestral pieces have been newly adapted for the piano including 'Dance of the Swan' from Swan Lake 'Aquarium' from Carnival of the Animals 'Largo' from Xerxes and 'Waltz of the Flowers' from The Nutcracker.Dover Original.

Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 2140-Some of the best-loved nocturnes by Chopin Faur? Liszt and others in a slim affordable volume.Contents: Fr?d?ric Chopin: Nocturne in B-flat minor Op. 9 No. 1 ? Nocturne in E-flat Major Op. 9 No. 2 ? Nocturne inC-sharp minor Op. 27 No. 1 ? Nocturne in D-flat Major Op. 27 No. 2 ??Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 ? Claude Debussy: Nocturne ? Gabriel Faur?: Nocturne No. 4 in E-flat Major Op. 36 ? John Field: Nocturne No. 3 in A-flatMajor ? Nocturne No. 4 in A Major ? Nocturne No. 6 in F Major ?Cradle Song? ? Nocturne No. 9 in E minor ? Edvard Grieg: Notturno from Lyric Pieces Op. 54 No. 4 ? Franz Liszt: Liebestraum No. 1 ? Liebestraum No. 2 ? LiebestraumNo. 3 ? Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nocturne in F Major Op. 10 No. 1

Waltzes-Chopin composed some of the best most well known and virtuosic works in the Piano repertoire which remain as ever refreshing and vital today.Chopin composed seventeen waltzes all of which are included in this Urtextedition offering some of the warmest and most delightful melodies you could ever wish to play. This Urtext edition provides you with an accurate realization of the composer???s original intentions and includes detailed and thorougheditorial markings and suggestions.The appendix includes two more waltzes in E flat the first of which marked Sostenuto in the opinion of some scholars could also be grouped with the mazurkas or nocturnes whilethe second is probably a spurious work. However since the composition cannot be ascribed to any definite composer it has been included in the present volume.

A sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the early Romantic era by composers ranging from Schubert to Chopin and beyond all presented in one superb volume for the solo Piano.The music of the Romantic erais characterised by progressive innovations in both tonal and formal expression both in the compositions of the salons and concert halls and of the church. The works of Chopin Liszt and Schubert have become absolutely essentialrepertoire for any serious Piano student forever pushing the boundaries of diatonic harmony timing and texture into evermore complex worlds of emotion. Every piece in this anthology is rich in heritage and familiar tothe 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 whilst retaining all the beauty and character of the originalworks. There's simply no better way to discover the music of the masters.

Souvenir De Paganini (B. 37) was written in 1829 shortly after the phenomenal violinist Niccolo Paganini had amazed the Warsaw Musical world with a series of concerts. It is a set of Variations in A major on the theme Carnival of Venice (Paganini Op. 10) however it never erupts in showy virtuosity instead retaining a delicate simplicity that is perhaps even harder to master. Frédéric Chopin (1710-1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist whose compositional career was spent mostly in Paris. He only wrote music for the Piano and is best known today for his 12 Etudes and 24 Preludes a key part of anypianist?s repertoire.

13 Pieces by 8 Composers-Some of the most often taught original piano literature by dozens of master composers of the past has been carefully selected and compiled by difficulty level. The Upper Intermediate edition features 13 pieces by 8 composers including: Johannes Brahms: Waltz in A-flat Major Op. 39 No. 15 · Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in F minor Op. 55 No. 1 · Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise Militaire Op. 40 No. 1 · Frédéric Chopin: Waltz in D-flat Major Minute Op. 64 No. 1 · Frédéric Chopin: Waltz in C-sharp minor Op. 64 No. 2 · Scott Joplin: The Cascades · Franz Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 · Felix Mendelssohn: Spring Song from Songs Without Words Op. 62 No. 6 · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 12 Variations on Ah! vous dirai-je maman K.265 · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo alla Turca from Sonata in A Major K. 331 · Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2 · Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5 · Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: June (Barcarolle) from The Seasons.

Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) was a Finnish composer pianist and conductor whose talents often led to him being compared to Chopin. He studied in Helsinki and Berlin before touring successfully as a concert pianistacross Scandinavia and the United States. He later held posts as a Professor of Composition on both sides of the Atlantic. He was one of the last members of the Romantic movement but struggled to find his own individual stylefrom behind the domination of Sibelius. The Sea was written in 1907 as the twelfth of a set of 24 Piano preludes (Op. 17). It is generally regarded as one of his best Piano preludes and makes a stunningaddition to any recital.