Birds and Beasts is an attractive pre-grades album of 13 simple pieces and four duets for the learner who has mastered the first elements of notation and time. Suggested grade 0-1

SKU: BT.9780008353247

ISBN 9780008353247. English.

My First Piano Pieces, Puzzles & Activities follows and supplements the tried-and-tested progression of Get Set! Piano My First Piano Book. It includes favourites like ‘Ring-a-Ring-a-Rose s’, ‘Peter Taps with One Hammer’ and ‘TheWheels on the Bus’, as well as playful new pieces, featuring dinosaurs, superheroes, aliens, scooters and more!

Some pieces have straightforward teacher duet parts to encourage ensemble playing from the start, and thereare lots of music theory puzzles and activities to consolidate learning and offer an extra layer of fun and exploration. The book is illustrated throughout in the charming Get Set! style, and students are encouraged to decorateand colour in the drawings to reflect their progress. Suitable for children aged 5+.

SKU: FG.55011-349-7

ISBN 9790550113497.

Eino juhani Rautavaara's popular Cantus arcticus - concerto for birds and orchestra - is a moder classic that has thrilled audiences since the 1970s. Peter Lonnqvist's transcription for birds and piano is idiomatic, challenging and ear-opening version of the work. The transcription successfully captures the essence of Rautavaara's musical language, harmonies, melancholy and solemnity. For the birds' singing, an amplified sound system is required for a performance of this work.

SKU: HL.14035219

ISBN 9788759877739. Danish.

Lullabies / Vuggeviser for Piano solo was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2000. Preface / Programme Note: Some melodies keep haunting me: they will stick in my mind, and I will walk about humming them, and they will find their way into my music. Two such melodies are the basis for the present piano piece, which I call LULLABIES. The first little tune began its life as a ballad in an operatic draft ofmine. Later on - with text by English poet Selima Hill - it became part of my songcycle ROSES ARE FALLING for mezzo soprano and piano. In the latter context it is a love song, but I have always had a lullaby-feeling about this tune, and, indeed, as a lullaby it appears in my opera UNDERTHE SKY, to text by Peter Asmussen: inthe opera, the loved one sings and hums to her beloved and make him come to rest. During LULLABIES the tune will appear a half tone lower with each entry, and make its way downwards through the musical texture, from upper voice to bassline. The other little melody is a true lullaby, which I hummed for my youngest daughter to try and make her go to sleep. Later on it became the backdrop for the last movement of my trombone concerto, BIRDS AND BELLS. The two melodies in their original form are reproduced at the beginning of LULLABIES. Bent Sorensen, 2000.

SKU: HL.49008417

ISBN 9790001131650. 9.0x12.0x0.193 inches.

This Spring music forms part of the cycle The Seasons, a collection for piano containing the previously published pieces Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Rudens musika (Autumn music). Nature in all its shapes and the relationship of humans to Nature play an important role in Vask's works. Many of his works have programmatic titles associated with this theme, such as landscapes of burnt earth and music for migrating birds.