Four Rags for Two Pianos-The Garden of Eden was originally published in its solo piano version in 1974. The four rags that make up the suite - Old Adam The Eternal Feminine The Serpent's Kiss and Through Eden's Gates - tell the story of the Fall in ragtime. 2 copies needed to perform.

David Lang the prolific enthusiastic and complicated composer embodies the restless spirit of invention. Musically adventurous yet deeply versed in the classical tradition Lang is determined to make a music that resists categorization. He is constantly in search of new musical forms. Many of his pieces resemble each other only in the fierce intelligence and clarity of vision that inform their structures.

Rhapsody in F Sharp was commissioned by the BBC Proms and first performed in the Royal Albert Hall on August 19th 1943. Written for solo Piano with Orchestra accompaniment it has been arranged here for twoPianos. Written with the wartime audience in mind it is unashamedly popular in style with a flashy virtuosity making it immediately accessible and entertaining. There is argument among scholars as to whether it should bereferred to in the Major or Minor key as it makes almost equal use of both starting in one and finishing in the other. Ernest J Moeran (1894-1950) was an English composer who followed the tradition of R. VaughanWilliams and John Ireland by collecting preserving and using many folk songs mainly from Norfolk Suffolk and Ireland.