Easy piano arrangements of 24 well-known classical pieces. Complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips. Includes Prelude In E Minor (Chopin), Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart), Flower Duet from Lakmé (Delibes) plus many more. / Piano

La série 'Essential Collection' rassemble un fine séléction de solos de piano des périodes Baroque, Classique et Romantique. Un historique (en anglais) introduit la période et les compositeur l'ayant marquée. / Piano / Partition

Album For The Young features 64 classic Piano pieces inspired by the spirit of childhood. From Johannes Brahms' unashamedly lyrical Wiegenlied through the more cerebral approach of Schumann's album Für die Jugend and the works of contemporary composers such as Lutoslawksi and Richard Rodney Bennett, the music contained in this collection offers many contrasting approaches to the idea of music for the young. Great composers down the ages have been consistently attracted to writing albums about or for the young. Some pieces are suitable for children to play and some are drawn from the nostalgic memory of childhood innocence. Here is a unique collection to treasure, reflecting the variety of both their emotional approaches and the richness of their creative responses. / Piano

This latest, classically-flavoured songbook for John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course introduces easy works by one of the greatest composers ever to have lived, Ludwig Van Beethoven. Featuring some very fine compositions, First Beethoven is perfect for pupils reaching parts 2 to 4 of the world-renowned Piano course.These fun repertoire books contain some amazing pieces that have been specially collected and graded to be used in conjunction with the Easiest Piano Course. Pieces like Minuet In G Major, Rondo In C, the sublime Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement and the classic Für Elise will reinforce essential technical ability, while simultaneously enhancing a general sense of musicality and melodic playing. First Beethoven is therefore ideal for pupils who've worked through the course at levels 2 to 4, but it's also a great set of pieces for sight reading practice for more advanced students.The pieces in this songbook become progressively more difficult, and, to this end, dynamics and phrasing have been omitted for the earlier pieces, since they're not introduced until Part 3 of the course. Early pieces like Ode To Joy and Turkish March help to reinforce what pupils learn in the beginning of the John Thompson Method, with a focus on playing notes and rhythms accurately. Towards of the end of the songbook, more challenging pieces like Eroica Symphony and Sonata Pathétique will help pupils to enhance their technical skills, play more melodically, and, most importantly, enjoy playing!Generally, these pieces stay in the 5-finger position, with handy hints and suggestions when a different fingering is called for. The pieces in this songbook are beautiful to hear and to play, making First Beethoven a really great beginner's songbook for pupils who want to learn some of the finest music ever composed. As an introduction for beginners to classical music and Beethoven in particular, this songbook is rewarding and enjoyable, these pieces being timeless and never going out of fashion.The John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course First Beethoven songbook is the ideal beginning book for classical music fans. It's tailor-made for pupils working through the renowned and revered Piano method, so it's authoritative and accurate, helping you to enhance your technique and learn some amazing music at the same time. / Piano

Learn the most popular classical piano music of the past 300 years - from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and more! 90 selections from the classical repertory with fingerings, each with their own performance notes detailing the wheres, whats, and hows - all in plain English! / Piano

27 classical masterpieces in a unique and accessible jazz style. Arranger Lee Evans also provides an audio recording of each piece. / Piano

The Piano Bench Of 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 greatest inventions, movements, nocturnes, valses, mazurkas, intermezzos, romantic short pieces, impressionist 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. / Piano

Featuring Easy Piano arrangements of 21 more Classical Favourites, this sheet music songbook will satisfy any beginner's desire to play the most popular and enduring classical pieces ever composed by the masters of the genre. These simple arrangements feature fingering guidance, song background notes and helpful performance hints.With some of the most beautiful classical music included here, this Really Easy Piano songbook will let you play the standards, the traditionals and the essentials quickly and easily. Schubert's Ave Maria, Debussy's En Bateau, Mendelssohn's Song Without Words and the all-time favourite, Vivaldi's Spring from The Four Seasons are included, among many others. Each of these composers represents a very different school of music, so you'll love picking out your favourite or playing through them all and then exploring the rest of their oeuvre.This instalment of the Really Easy Piano series puts the best-loved Classical Favourites right at the fingertips of beginning pianists. All too often playing the works of these composers is but a dream of players who are just starting out. Now, such masters of composition as Beethoven, Mozart, Puccini, Wagner and Handel are immediately accessible to pianists in the early stages of their playing, letting them learn these glorious melodies and soaring chords without the decades of practice necessary to master the full arrangements. Even though they are simplified, they sound absolutely great, from the lively to the melancholy and everything in between, these pieces are sure to impress any audience.Not only do you get Easy Piano arrangements of tunes like Sarabande, Vocalise and Dance Of The Knights, as with all the books in the Really Easy Piano series some fascinating background information on each song is included, as well as really useful practical performance advice, ensuring that you nail every note and play every phrase perfectly.This book of Really Easy Piano: More Classical Favourites features a great number of beautiful classical pieces that are easy to play and sound utterly fantastic. This book is suitable for pianists at the early grades, bringing amazing classical music to the fingertips of beginners, enabling you to learn the timeless pieces that we return to again and again. / Piano

The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 of the saddest pieces of classical music, guaranteed to make you weep, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di vedremo from ‘Madam Butterfly’ by Puccini Parry and Dido’s Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden’s colour linocut Aesop’s Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork./ Recueil / Piano

This collection contains 55 notable works by some of the world's best-known composers in the classical tradition. Spanning over 250 years, from Bach to Rachmaninoff, players can enjoy an inspiring journey through the history of classical music whilst learning to play these celebrated compositions. Short biographies are included for selected composers, allowing players to gain further insight into their lives and works.All the pieces in this book have been arranged in Easy Piano format in a considered and thoughtful fashion, retaining as much of the original musical substance as possible.Everybody's Favorite Easy Piano Pieces contains Massenet's Meditation from Thais, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Holst's Jupiter from The Planets, Debussy's Clair De Lune, Handel's The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba, Grieg's Morning from Peer Gynt, Schubert's Death And The Maiden and many more of the greatest classical pieces ever composed. / Piano

Journey Through the Classics is a four-volume piano repertoire series designed to lead students seamlessly from the earliest classics to the intermediate masterworks. The graded pieces are presented in a progressive order and feature a variety of classical favorites essential to any piano students educational foundation. Benefits: Progressive order provides a variety of musical styles in a logical sequence - Includes a reference chart with the stylistic period and challenge elements listed for each piece - Authentic repertoire ideal for auditions and recitals - and more. Quality and value make this series a perfect classical companion for any method! / Piano

Some of the most beautiful and diverse pieces by some of the finest composers in recent history are included in this enormous Library Of Modern Piano Music. Such a comprehensive collection of brilliant works for solo Piano belies the rich quality and sheer amount of music being composed that just begs to be learned. Over 100 fantastic pieces are guaranteed to keep you learning from this truly classic selection until the next century!The Library Of Modern Piano Music boasts an unprecedented volume and variety of amazing compositions, some well-known, some more unfamiliar, some composed as standalone pieces and others as film scores, but the one thing uniting them all is their impeccable musicality and how enjoyable they are to play. Featuring the biggest names in contemporary classical music, composers like Einaudi lend their wonderful compositions (Primavera, Una Mattina), and all-round geniuses like Philip Glass are represented with a generous selection of their finest work (Metamorphosis Five, Opening Piece From Glassworks and more).The varied progression of Piano music through the 20th century to the present day has given rise to an exceptionally vast and diverse repertoire. The unbelievable depth of the composers included here means you'll rarely be stuck for something to play. Kaija Saariaho, Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Dustin O'Halloran, Nico Muhly and Witold Lutoslawski are genuinely just a fraction of the composers featured in The Library Of Modern Piano Music. Some great standalone compositions like Samuel Barber's incomparable Adagio For Strings sit aside excerpts from longer works like a portion of Edward Gregson's An Album For My Friends or Joby Talbot's Once Around The Sun.If you happen to be a fan of film and television scores, a taste of Michael Nyman's distinguished score for The Piano is included, a section from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as parts of Richard Rodney Bennett's score for the now rarely-seen but superb 1980s miniseries of Tender Is The Night. Many established composers are included in this collection who are widely-recognised as masters. However, The Library Of Modern Piano Music also includes many young virtuosos who have not yet achieved that status but are certainly well on their way.These original compositions span standalone pieces, albums, suites and arrangements from diverse talents, making The Library Of Modern Piano Music a collection that is certain to be seen by future generations as a perfect collection of the best of contemporary classical music. / Piano