Additional books to complement the tutor for adults and young people. Play the Piano! Levels 1 & 2, are now available providing specially arranged favourite pieces in keeping with the technical level attained by the end of each course book. Whilst still under Mike's guiding hand, here is the chance for players to explore and enjoy more beautiful music in a variety of styles, confident that the technical levels are within their capabilities. Includes popular classics by Purcell, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Humperdinck, Schumann, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Elgar and more. Also included are traditional folksong favourites along with selections of Jazzy, Latin and Ragtime pieces by Scott Joplin, Mike Cornick and Duke Ellington. • Includes 'In the Shed' by Mike Cornick • Easy arrangements of favourite pieces in a variety of musical styles • Pieces for any middle-grade pianist seeking to broaden their repertoire and ideal for those who have completed the tutor PLAY THE PIANO! Level 2 – for more music to play and enjoy • Helpful advice is provided with each piece and, in some cases, suggestions for further listening • FREE DOWNLOADS of play-along versions and/or demonstration performances of some pieces are available from: www.universaledition.com/pianorepertoire2/ Recueil / Piano

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment of traditional techniques and its radical departure from familiar aesthetic norms. Beethoven specialist Jonathan Del Mar has competently solved the questions raised by the highly complex source material of this work headed “Sonata for the Hammerklavier” in the autograph score. The result is a reliable musical text and a Critical Commentary explaining alternative readings and editorial decisions. In addition to a reader-friendly engraving and practical page-turns, the edition is roundedoff with an informative Introduction and valuable notes on historical performance practice. Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment of traditional techniques and its radical departure from familiar aesthetic norms. Beethoven specialist Jonathan Del Mar has competently solved the questions raised by the highly complex source material of this work headed “Sonata for the Hammerklavier” in the autograph score. The result is a reliable musical text and a Critical Commentary explaining alternative readings and editorial decisions. In addition to a reader-friendly engraving and practicalpage-turns, the edition is rounded off with an informative Introduction and valuable notes on historical performance practice. / Niveau : 6 / Répertoire / Piano

PIANO SONATA NO. 1 was written in 1955. Fiser worked on it during his last year at the Prague Conservatoire under the supervision of Emil Hlobil. The piece is one of Fiser?s early works which still respect a traditional compositional approach. Unlike his major and late piano sonatas, this sonata has three movements, each representing the traditional Classical-Romantic form. The sonata was premiered by Fiser?s fellow-student and friend Antonín Jemelík in Theatre D34 on 30 January 1956. The new setting for this piece is based on the single edition to date (SNKLHU, 1957) only with regard to a few inconsistencies in the score was it necessary to consult the composer?s manuscript (kept at the National Museum ? Czech Museum of Music, acquisition number 297/2006). H 7911, ISMN 979-2601-0445-7

Compilation. The Piano Treasury of Easy Classical Music is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This tremendous piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the pianist who loves classical music. No other single volume can provide the wealth of exquisite piano selections contained within these pages. Here you will find the world's favourite inventions, preludes, fugues, minuets, sonata movements, nocturnes, waltzes, mazurkas, intermezzos, romantic short pieces, impressionistic works, and light classics, as well as the most rewarding traditional arrangements of themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas, and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Rép Classique / Recueil / Piano

106 Graded Pieces From Baroque To The 20Th Century. A treasure trove of thoughtfully graded piano pieces from the four traditional classical eras, ranging from Bartók and Turk's most accessible teaching pieces to recital hall repertoire by Rachmaninoff, Bach, and Debussy. Carefully edited so an adult or mature student can progress easily by level, and ideal as a reference tool for piano teachers. Includes style characteristics and easy-to-use table of contents and indexes, and the collection is beautifully comb-bound so pages always stay open! Grading/level is similar to the John Thompson Modern Course for the Piano so progress is quick and assured,/ Recueil / Piano

Par HESS NIGEL. Classic FM: Silent Nights is a collection of beautiful carols imaginatively arranged by Nigel Hess for Piano solo, suitable for intermediate to advanced players (Grade 5-7). Charming and nostalgic, these arrangements offer a different perspective on Christmas tunes with which everyone will be familiar. Following a poll conducted by Classic FM to find the nation's favourite traditional Christmas music, the station specifically commissioned Silent Nights, a wonderful collection of well-known Christmas music, beautifully arranged for Piano and Strings by renowned contemporary composer Nigel Hess. This stunning album includes tranquil favourites 'Away In A Manger' and 'Silent Night', and more celebratory pieces 'Hark The Herald Angels Sing' and 'O Come All Ye Faithful'. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Recueil / Piano

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others.Carefully selected by Iain Farrington, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 4 pianist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:a diverse collection of pieces, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tipgrade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercisesbrand new sight-reading and improvisation activitiesnewly-commissioned aural awareness tasksPackaged with a CD of full performance demonstrations and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.Iain Farrington has an exceptionally busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He has performed across the world, notably at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, and has worked with many leading musicians, including Bryn Terfel and Sir Paul McCartney. As a composer, Iain's music has been performed, recorded and broadcast worldwide, and his wide-ranging catalogue of arrangements receives regular international performances. / Piano

Par KOHLER LOUIS. An excellent follow-up to Kohler\'s \'12 Easy Studies,\' these twenty etudes continue to develop finger dexterity through broken-chord and scalar passagework. Emphasizing traditional harmonies, the works also include a variety of articulations and dynamic contrasts. Reminiscent of the easier Czerny exercises, these one- and two-page studies are easily learned by intermediate-level pianists. / Instrumental Music, Miscellaneous, Piano Music, Sc / Etude / Piano

Books I and II of this traditional edition in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics have been combined in an affordable new volume. An excellent resource for Late Elementary to Early Intermediate pianists. / Piano

Debussy's music can be daunting to beginning pianists: his abstract sense of composition sometimes makes listeners feel lost, the harmonies are more chromatic than traditional works, and often his use of advanced keys is beyond the grasp of even more experienced players. This compilation, however, makes the composer's works highly accessible to beginning pianists.These introductory arrangements focus on Debussy's melodies and style. The more abstract works are excerpted and presented in manageable samples, and the keys are simplified. Suggested fingerings are also provided. Beginning pianists will be able to enjoy a wide variety of works that previously seemed unapproachable: 'Claire de Lune,' 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,' 'Beau Soir,' 'Danse Bohémienne,' and many other etudes, preludes, and melodies. Best of all, free downloadable MP3s of each piece will familiarize players with the music. / Piano

Une collection exceptionnelle des plus belles Pasodobles pour piano solo et piano avec deux voix, une célébration de Danceform espagnole theTraditional. / Piano / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition

The piano sonatas are regarded as the central works of Alexander Skrjabin?s compositional output. No other composer after Beethoven reshaped this genre so radically, thereby reinvigorating the tradition of the sonata. Skrjabin?s desire not simply to continue the existing tradition, but to surpass it, is evident as early as his first sonatas. These are exciting works from the pianist?s perspective and in their abundance of expression and wealth of imagination. Up to the third sonata Skrjabin developed a distinctive feeling for structural coherence and cyclical unity which at the same time revealed poetic qualities.

This volume contains the earlier works; sonatas officially published during the composer?s lifetime as No. 1 op. 6, No. 2 (Sonate-Fantaisie) op. 19 and No. 3 op. 23 as well as the sonatas written during his youth, in G-sharp minor (1886) and E-flat minor (1887-89). The edition also includes the virtually unknown fragment of a sonata in C-sharp minor (1887) and the reconstructed parts of a sonata in G-sharp minor (1892) never previously published.

The editor Christoph Flamm draws on autograph manuscripts, first printed editions and on Russian editions of the 1920s. For the first time the recordings of Sonatas nos. 2 and 3 which Skrjabin made in 1908 on paper rolls for the Hupfeld company, Leipzig are also taken into account. / [L'intégrale des Sonates pour Piano, Volume I] / Classique / Partition /

Sonata for Piano N 5 /Three Romances Without Words op. 17 N 52 / Mazurka N 8 / Prelude [and Fugue] N 17 / Gavotte N 14 / Short Pieces op. 84 N 147 / Mazurka op. 32 N 75 / Five Impromptus. Par FAURE GABRIEL. Centering on the important series of the “Impromptus”, the collection of “Pièces brèves”, and the “Trois Romances sans paroles”, the present volume also gathers piano works by Gabriel Fauré that are either unpublished or little-known. It is of additional interest insofar as it draws attention to a series of pieces dating from his earliest creative period. The young composer’s progress can thus be followed, from his student work at the “École de musique classique et religieuse” to the earliest masterpieces for piano born between 1875 and 1880. These scores show Fauré’s ability to imitate styles of the past, crafting preludes and fugues, a sonata in the Viennese tradition, and character pieces deriving straight from Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Chopin. Through them, a musical personality emerges little by little: its signs are tenuous in the “Sonate”, in the early versions of the “Fugues”, and in the “Trois Romances”, but they are more in evidence in the “Mazurke”, the “Gavotte”, and the “Prélude” in E minor. Of his early compositions, Fauré, to be sure, retained only what is included in this volume, namely those pieces which he deemed most personal and suitable for publication. All of these compositions are remarkable for their individual flavour. Despite the diverse origin of its constituent parts the contrasted “Pièces brèves” collection is unjustly neglected, as it forms an ensemble of high quality, with a search for concision that anticipates the “Neuf Préludes”. Next to the “Nocturnes” and “Barcarolles”, the five “Impromptus”, vigorously crafted between 1881 and 1906, show a composer with ever increasing creative powers who crosses borders in the pursuit of his artistic ideas. Beside the first versions of the 3rd “Romance” and two “Pièces brèves”, the appendices to the present volume include the interesting piano solo version of the “Pavane” doubtlessly penned by the composer, as well as the cadenzas to piano concertos by Beethoven and Mozart which he wrote for his students and, later, for the pianist Marguerite Hasselmans. These cadenzas’ originality has aroused the interest of pianists again and again./ Recueil / Piano

La 3e Sonate pour piano de Scriabine est une oeuvre de jeunesse encore toute imprégnée de tradition romantique.

À juste titre, elle figure depuis longtemps déjà au coeur du répertoire pour piano. Notre édition de cette sonate parue en 1898 se base sur les esquisses qui nous sont parvenues et la première édition, mais tient également compte d?un document sonore, sur lequel Scriabine enregistra son oeuvre sur un piano mécanique.

La spécialiste russe de Scriabine, Valentina Rubcova, documente cet état des sources tout à fait inhabituel de manière extrêmement érudite. / [Sonate pour Piano n° 3 en fa dièse mineur op. 23] / Classique / Partition / Agrafé /

Single Edition From Hn 404. Par DEBUSSY CLAUDE. This piece is straightforward in its construction but highly advanced in its harmonies, and links up with the widely popular, 19th-century tradition of the ' night piece” or ' nocturne” for piano. Its themes and modulations are highly reminiscent of Gabriel Fauré, but in its chromatic voice-leading and unusual treatment of metre - such as in the 7/4 central section - Debussy makes a statement all of his own. Nothing is known about the history of its composition. Debussy' s 1892 contract with his publisher states merely that the composer had originally called it ' Interlude”, but then decided upon the far more suitable title of ' Nocturne”. One of Debussy' s most popular early piano works, it is now available in a Henle Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Piano