SKU: BT.BWH005060

In Party Mood was first composed in 1944 for the West End Celebrity Orchestra. However, it quickly became known as the theme tune to the long running Housewives’ Choice, broadcast daily on theBBC Light Programme from 1946 to 1967. It has been arranged here for solo Piano, and is sure to bring back fond memories of anyone who lived through the era!

Jack Strachey (1894-1972) was a British composer, bestknown for his light-hearted songs for theatre and music hall, such as These Foolish Things. He later turned to orchestral works, with hits including Theatreland and Pink Champagne.

SKU: HL.14001318

Extracted from the Final Chorus of Bach's Cantata No.22. The Chorale is a folk-tune of the 15th Century. The words are by Elizabeth Creutziger (1524). Ach wie fluchtig, ach wie nichtig ist des menschen leben.

SKU: SU.27040390

Composed during the summer of 2019, the Toccata for Solo Piano was influenced to some extent by the seven early Bach pieces known under the collective title Toccaten. It consists of several contrasting sections juxtaposing running rhapsodic material with recitative and fugal sections. There are two distinct themes that abound throughout: a seven-note aeolian-mode tune that is juxtaposed with a more chromatic one. The latter serves as a countersubject for the former in the Ricercare section before morphing into a double fugue, employing each as a subject, more or less equally. The two aforementioned themes are introduced individually in the opening section of the work.Piano Duration: 18' Composed: 2019 Published by: Hutter Music.

SKU: BT.EMBZ20084

English-Hungarian.

Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a classical piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing but also with the fundamentals of composition - from Imitation and Inversion, Ostinato, and Free Variations, concerning compositional technique, to mood pieces and pieces with programmatic ideas such as Notturno, Boating, From the Diary of a Fly, or the famous Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. Mikrokosmos first appeared in 1940 in six volumes. Based on volume 40 of the Bartók CompleteEdition published in 2020(Z. 15040), the present Urtext edition offers the series gathered in three volumes. This edition includes Bartók's preface, exercises, and notes written for the first edition. Furthermore, it also features a preface and comments by the editor, which not only discuss the genesis and the compositional sources but also provide performers, teachers and pupils alike, with authentic and detailed information about Bartók's notation and the specific performing problems of Mikrokosmos.

SKU: M7.HDM-857271

ISBN 9783896152718.

Festliche Eröffnungsstücke brauchen Klavierspieler immer wieder. Sei es bei den musikalischen Eröffnungen der sonntäglichen Gottesdienste oder bei festlichen Anlässen wie z. B. Hochzeiten, Jubiläen, Advent, Weihnachten, Ostern. Musikalisch interessante Stücke aus den verschiedensten Epochen (Barockzeit, Wiener Klassik, Romantik und peppige Kompositionen aus dem 21. Jahrhundert) geben hier eine wertvolle Hilfestellung. Schwierigkeitsgrad leicht bis mittel.