Contemporary Piano Masters: Piano: Instrumental Album

This exceptional collection draws upon works from 20 of the world?s greatest piano composers. These pieces have been specially arranged for easy piano, giving the beginner-intermediate level pianist engaging and inspiring pieces to enjoy. Includes beautiful pieces by Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma, Dustin O?Halloran, Joe Hisaishi, Yann Tiersen and may more!

Did you know that Bruckner wrote for the piano? Or that Liszt wrote some pieces that are not fiendishly difficult? Contemplations is selection of fascinating pieces for intermediate-level pianists. The music is drawn from a wide range of periods and styles creating intriguing juxtapositions of pieces by well-known and lesser-known composers. Bernstein's tribute to Sondheim rubs shoulders with Erik Satie; Bartók Benjamin and Bortkiewicz are bedfellows; Mozart and Tchaikovsky are represented alongside their contemporaries Koželuh and Cui. There are some thoroughly accessible new pieces too by contemporary masters.Piano Moods is an exciting new piano series from Boosey & Hawkes.Each volume is devoted to a particular mood. The pieces chosen draw on Boosey & Hawkes' extensive collection of wonderful music as well as lesser-known gems from the past - some of them from surprising sources - and newly composed works.

Preludio #2 The dedications accompanying Preludio No. 1 and No. 2 show the author's admiration and respect towards his former teachers and masters, the eminent Cuban clarinetists Roberto Sánchez López (1914 - 1987), Enrique Pardo Fuentes (1905 - 1996) and Juan J. Junco (1913 - 2001), who also stand out as composers and, especially, as notable pedagogues teaching this instrument to several generations of Cuban musicians. Contrived as duos for Bb clarinet and piano, these pieces are exemplary of one of the diversified creative tendencies within contemporary Cuban chamber music, demanding the revelation of the varied spectrum of technical and interpretative possibilities of both instrumentalists. These compositions feature the use of polytonality, the simultaneous application of various modes and complex polyrhythmic passages established between the clarinet and the piano; yet, they also show those huge intervallic leaps and the existence of fragments of improvisational or cadence-like character determining the clarinet's melodic discourse. Their style is not only sustained by the specific characteristics and complex traits peculiar to contemporary concert music, but also by latin jazz and the distinct manifestations of Cuban popular and folkloristic music. Among the latter, the canción afro and the son stand out by their singular ways of melodic intonation and their typical concatenations and superpositions of sincopes. Achieving an appropriate and pleasing execution and interpretation of these preludes will therefore represent an attractive and tempting challenge to the musicians. Ana V. Casanova (Musicologist) Nombre de pages :12

A selection of original Piano music by the master composers of the past four centuries the New Classics To Moderns series provides the pianist with a repertoire which is enjoyable for the player and listener alike.Inspired by the popular series by Denes Agay each of the six books in the New Classics To Moderns collection contains pieces by a wide range of composers from the old masters to contemporary writers with works from recent decades.Students teachers indeed all pianists will find the pieces in New Classics To Moderns a priceless source of study material recital pieces sight reading exercises — orjust relaxing musical entertainment.This volume includes works by Debussy Ravel Lutoslawski Tchaikovsky and Glasser amongst others.In the European Piano Teachers Association Journal Nadia Lasserson writes that this series is '[e]xcellent value for money the books offer students of ever level a well-balanced musical diet covering over four hundred years of wonderful music as well as offering a wide range of sight-reading material to advanced students.'

A selection of original Piano music by the master composers of the past four centuries the New Classics To Moderns series provides the pianist with a repertoire which is enjoyable for the player and listener alike.Inspired by the popular series by Denes Agay each of the six books in the New Classics To Moderns collection contains pieces by a wide range of composers from the old masters to contemporary writers with works from recent decades.Students teachers indeed all pianists will find the pieces in New Classics To Moderns a priceless source of study material recital pieces sight reading exercises — orjust relaxing musical entertainment.This volume includes works by Abel Berkeley Poulenc Chopin and Rameau amongst others.In the European Piano Teachers Association Journal Nadia Lasserson writes that this series is '[e]xcellent value for money the books offer students of ever level a well-balanced musical diet covering over four hundred years of wonderful music as well as offering a wide range of sight-reading material to advanced students.'

an international collection of 66 miniatures for solo piano-Spectrum 4 is a stimulating collection of specially commissioned miniatures by 66 contemporary composers. With pieces ranging from grade 1 to grade 4 this volume is a perfect introduction to the music of today as well as being a rich resource for pianists of all ages and abilities.The book is complete with a CD of accompanying soundtracks for five of the compositions. Among the roll call of post-modern masters are such celebrated composers as Alejandro Vinao Param Vir Michael Finnissy and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.A CD of all 66 works performed by Thalia Myers is available separately catalogue number 5029787122724.

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.

Piano Book with Listening CD-Here is the one you've been waiting for! Legendary pianist/composer Mark Hayes has compiled the best of his best into an amazing potpourri of praise that will become an indispensable addition to your sacred library. All of Mark'samazing versatility is here ? from jazzy contemporary songs to classic hymn settings from virtuosic concert pieces to meditative worship moments that will thrill the soul and melt the heart. Don't miss this best-sellingtreasury of one of America's most celebrated arrangers. Highly recommended!Contents: Tribute to America ? Savior like a Shepherd Lead Us ? Sing We Now of Christmas ? Masters in This Hall ? His Eye Ison the Sparrow ? Amazing Grace ? Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen/All Day All Night ? Once to Every Man and Nation ? It Is Well with My Soul ? Higher Ground ? Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross ?Simple Gifts ? I Need Thee Every Hour ? Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho ? Shall We Gather at the River/Near to the Heart of God ? Praise to the Lord the Almighty ? Silent Night ? Be Thou My Vision.