SKU: FG.55011-456-2

ISBN 9790550114562.

Three Strides of Light is inspired by the light and its behaviour in different circumstances, appearances and surroundings. The work is in three movements, but they are played together attacca.

The first movement starts off with a headstrong theme on the left hand. This motif has persistent momentum, like a train, and one could think of it as the rays of a setting sun. The beams are straight and relentlessly penetrate our eyes. The seven-bar repetition on the left hand supports this mental image, until the repetition ends and a new thematically central motive starts to emerge, bringing new kind of texture for the last rays and dance of the setting sun. At the end, the light vanishes into the night.

Second movemement, slow rubato, depicts the first rays of the rising sun, they drop behind a morning cloud into the day, growing, developing and becoming yet faster. Eventually the day opens up in all of it sunny glory. The music leads us towards the third movement, in which one bathes in the rays of the sun. The repetative motive of the first movement returns, but by now it has been transformed into something else. A pensive quintuplet-passage emerges, paving ground for the final themes of the work. The ending of the work is thick in sound, depicting the relentless glare of the sun and the heat sun creates. Within the entire work, one can imagine to have gone through a whole 24-hour period on the sea, in which the three strides of light are apparent in different parts of the day.

SKU: PE.EP5786

ISBN 9790577024295.

The edition contains the Waltz from the opera War and Peace Op. 91 as well as the Contredanse and the Mephisto Waltz from the music for the film 'Lermontov' arranged for piano by the composer himself around 1941/42. Prokofiev occasionally published individual movements of large works before the premiere. This applies to all three pieces, as the opera was only presented to the public in parts in 1946 and the film music not at all. The work is suitable for intermediate and advanced pianists.

SKU: HL.14018648

ISBN 9780711996960.

Twenty-three Christmas carols arranged for eay piano, grades 1-2. Includes pull out word book.

SKU: FJ.H1019

ISBN 9781619281677. UPC: 241444369524. English.

The three nocturnes in this collection were selected because they are technically the easiest to play, and they should be quite accessible to most late-intermediate students. For teachers who are looking for pathway literature to the Chopin nocturnes, these three nocturnes by Field are not only an excellent introduction to the romantic style, but masterworks in their own right.

SKU: C4.9790902260329

ISBN 9790902260329. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Though known nowadays for his considerable corpus of church music, Harold Darke's earlier years saw a proliferation of compositions for many and varied forces, a result of his fruitful study at the Royal College of Music.

Written towards the end of 1908, these virtuosic Three Concert Studies stand as happy advocates of the Post-Romanticism then in vogue.

This edition marks their first publication and contains a brief background on the work's composition as well as a full list of editorial changes. These Three Concert Studies certainly deserve to be more widely known and enjoyed.

SKU: BT.MUSACF017434

French.

Bach 's Inventions is a collection of 15 Two-Part and 15 Three-Part pieces. Originally composed as pedagogical exercises for his students, their contrapuntal composition still works brilliantly as an introduction and practice in counterpoint. Bach  wrote the Inventions  as a way for his students to practise playing in two parts, then, after some progress, in three parts; with an end goal of becoming more accomplished at composition. The two groups of pieces are arranged in order of ascending key, with each covering eight major and seven minor keys.