Volume 2-Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is known for his unique composition style. Incorporating complex rhythms harmony melodies and his passion for ornithology his Catalogue D'Oiseaux for Piano is no exception to the composer's popular distinctive style. Messiaen became fascinated by birdsong from an early age however it wasn't until the 1950s that he took his passion to a new level incorporating birdsong into all of his compositions. Catalogue D'Oiseaux  composed in 1958 comprises thirteen movements each depicting a specific bird. The second volume contains movement four; The Black-eared Wheatear.Catalogue D'Oiseaux is essential to all advanced pianists seeking to expand and vary their repertoire.

Armando Ghidoni's Concert-Trio for B Flat Clarinet Cello and Piano. This is the score and parts.

Composed by Pierre Boulez 2nd Sonata For Piano is a piece for Piano in four distinct movements. Really modern and dissonant this piece played in its totality lasts approximatively 32 minutes. - 1st movement: Really fast – 7’30” - 2nd movement: Slow – 11’ - 3rd movement: Moderate speed – 2’30” - 4th movement: Rapid – 11’ This piece is difficult and requires a good music theory knowledge and a strong / professional practice of Piano. Really atonal it includes numerous accidental notes trills and many changes in nuances at a rapid tempofor most of the piece. Pierre Boulez was a French composer who believed in the progress of music and who wrote many modern pieces. He studied with Olivier Messiaen but developed a very different distinctive style.

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) studied at the Paris Conservatoire before embarking upon a successful composing career. Stories increased his popularity when it was published in the mid-1920s and it remains significant in the advanced pianist's repertoire. This edition contains the second movement of Stories The Little White Donkey. It is marked 'with quiet good humour' and begins staccato yet pianissimo. The movements of Ibert's Stories including The Little White Donkey contain significant influences of Debussy and impressionism. Addressing a variety of musical aspects andtechniques Ibert's The Little White Donkey is an exciting addition to the Piano repertoire.

Venezia is a set of six songs of music by Reynaldo Hahn. For Voice and Piano the lyrics are written both in Venetian dialect and in French. The Piano score requires an upper-intermediate technique as per the Voice. A small guide to correct pronunciation is given at the beginning of the book. The six songs are: - “Sopra l’acqua indormenzada” by Pietro Pagello - “La Barcheta” by Pietro Buratti - “L’avertimento” by Pietro Buratti - “La Biondina in Gondoleta” by Antonio Lamberti - “Che peca !” by Francesco Dall’ Ongaro - “La Primavera” by Alvise Cigogna Some of these pieces are dedicated to renowned women such as Giorgio Sand the Countess of Guerne born Ségur and Ernesta Sterne. Reynaldo Hahn was a naturalised French composer conductor theatre director and singer. Best known as a composer of songs he also wrote many pieces and melodies for different instruments.

Aleatoric Work - with performance Instructions in English (Poster-size Reproduction of original Manuscript) 68x94cm

A cycle of songs from the Les Six composer setting French texts from the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. This version for voice and piano from 1930 follows the version for voice and orchestra from 1929. This is regarded as Tailleferre's most feminist work the poems addressing the difficulties experienced by women especially marital and affairs of the heart and perhaps draws on her personal experiences of her turbulent relationship at the time with the American caricaturist Ralph Barton.

Written for a Paris Conservatoire contest  Suite Ancienne is a piece in five parts for Percussion and Piano and was composed by Maurice Jarre. All sections of this suite use different percussions:  1. Toccata – for 4 Timpanies 2. Sarabande – for Vibraphone Chimes Glockenspiel 3. Guigue – for Snare Drums Tambourine Triangle Castanets 4. Courant – for Xylophone 5. Rigaudon – for Drums Solo Maurice Jarre (1924-2009) was a French composer who wrote much film music some concert pieces and some ballets. Among the most famouspieces he composed were for “Lawrence of Arabia” “Dead Poets Society” and “I Dreamed of Africa”.

Henri Dutilleux's (1916-2013) compositional style greatly reflected that of Maurice Ravel Claude Debussy and Albert Roussel. Yet his unique individual style did not go amiss as in his Au Gré des Ondes composed in 1946 and still performed to this day. Au Gré des Ondes translating as Along the Waves contains six movements including an homage to Bach. Au Gré des Ondes reflects Dutilleux's style in its atonality and modality use of pedal notes and subtle hints of the jazz style. As an unusual set of Piano pieces Dutilleux's compilation adds pleasant varietyto the pianists' repertoire.