Christmas - Piano Style: Piano: Instrumental Album

Level 4-An entertaining collection of traditional and popular Christmas songs arranged to offer a variety of sounds and styles. Suitable for students at level 4 in the Faber Piano Adventures series. Includes: 'Carol of the Bells' 'The First Noel' 'Hallelujah Chorus (from Handel's Messiah)' 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing' 'A Holly Jolly Christmas' 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' 'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear' 'Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring' 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' 'O Holy Night' 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' 'Silent Night' 'What Child Is This'' 'Winter Wonderland'.

Jerry Ray has created ten beautiful and unique carol arrangements for the piano. Each interpretation is designed with an individual harmonic and/or rhythmic character that sets it apart from other hymn-styled arrangements of these Christmas favorites.

Cool syncopation funky riffs and smooth stylish tunes from dynamic to nostalgic Pam Wedgwood's series has it all. Christmas Jazzin' About is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles. So celebrate the festive season in style with these jazzy arrangements of popular Christmas carols.

Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas Piano album of stylish swinging arrangements. Favourite Christmas carols and songs receive the complete jazz treatment with rhythm harmony grooves and solos all carefully notated. The expertise of the arranger celebrated jazz pianist and composer Nikki Iles guarantees an authentic jazz sound and a range of styles from Nat King Cole to John Coltrane. While paying homage to American Christmas jazz the collection also reflects a European tradition in such time-honoured classics as In the Bleak Mid-Winter. Expert arrangements for players at intermediate level (Grades 4 - 8)Written solos perfectly in style and swinging! Wide range of jazz styles and influences from swing to contemporary including Frank Sinatra Bill Evans Vince Mendoza and Abdullah Ibrahim CD of full performances by Nikki Iles to help with interpretation and feel

Back-to-back parties last-minute shopping wrapping up presents cooking the turkey... Christmas can leave you feeling exhausted. What better way to relax and enjoy the season than to sit down at the Piano and chill out with music from the latest in Pam Wedgwood's After Hours series?These Christmas songs carols and original pieces in a sophisticated jazzy style will conjure up the magical atmosphere of Christmas.

10 Arrangements Inspired by Baroque Compositions. A Baroque-Style Christmas combines favorite Christmas carols with excerpts from beloved masterworks by Baroque period composers. Titles: Ding Dong! Merrily On High / Bach's Invention No. 8 in F Major - For Unto Us a Child Is Born / Handel's Messiah - A French Carol / Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - How Great Our Joy / Clarke's Trumpet Tune - O Little Town of Bethlehem / Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major - O Sanctissima / Bach's Gavotte from French Suite No. 5 - Of the Father's Love Begotten / Scarlatti's Sonata in A Minor - Pat-a-Pan / Bach's Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor - The Snow Lay on the Ground (Venite Adoremus) / Vivaldi's Lute Concerto in D Major - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks / Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze.