Featuring a nautical sound this bold energetic piano duet is exciting yet easy-to-learn. Set in the key of A minor Pirate Pete includes open fifths accents and dynamic rhythm. Without a doubt your students will practice its quick-paced melodies again and again!

The Serenade for Strings dedicated to Frederick Delius on the occasion of his 60th Birthday was an acknowledgement of the debt Warlock owed to the older composer and the culmination of almost 12 years of friendship. This is a wonderful piece full of Warlock’s characteristic subtle harmonic changes and it has been effectively transcribed for Piano Duet by Fred Tomlinson of the Peter Warlock Society. There are comprehensive background notes in an extensive introduction. Note that two copies of this book are required to perform this work.

Boogie-Woogie is said to have developed as a musical entertainment in the saloon bars of Louisiana and Mississippi. It reached a peak in the late 1930's and early 1940's when the famous exponents (including Meade Lux Lewis Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson) made their own classic recordings. Those who try to develop their own boogie Piano-playing quickly discover the technical difficulties of maintaining a mobile and rhythmic left-hand figuration whilst also giving thought to what their right hand is playing. In Boogie Duets this task is thankfully shared as well as the opportunity to improvise.

Countless catchy melodies come from Russian operas, ballets and symphonies and if you have heard them once, you will never forget them. For this collection of pieces, Nicolai Podgornov has produced masterful arrangements of classics from russian operas, ballets and symphonies. Compositions such as the famous waltz from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty or the main theme from his Swan Lake, the waltz from Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No. 2, Prokofiev's Montagues and Capulets from the ballet Romeo and Juliet, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance from Gayane and his Adagio from the ballet Spartacus. All of these are sure to give great pleasure to intermediate-level piano students. Nicolai Podgornov has expertly arranged these popular pieces with easy fingering so that playing them is straightforward - after all, familiar pieces are easier to master. • Easy to middle-grade arrangements of well-known themes from Russian opera and ballet for piano duet • Well-known, easy-to-play melodies from the Russian classics (’Sabre Dance’, ’Waltz No. 2’, ’Flight of the Bumblebee’ etc.) • Includes illustrations of the composers/ Recueil / Piano 4 Mains