Emotion Album

Early Intermediate Level-An enchanting suite of piano solos inspired by the Maurice Maeterlinck play. Each brief piece captures an emotion from delight to foreboding happiness to nostalgia transporting performer into Naoko's magical musical universe. Titles: Happiness (Prologue) - The Magic Forest - Mysterious Wind - Song of the Blue Bird - The White Rabbit - Dark Blue Night - Happiness (Epilog…

Clifford Benson died in 2007 sadly before publication of this work. His compositions are very accessible. They are sparkling and fresh full of melodic and rhythmic invention contrasting textures and harmonic humour all intermixed with warmth love and emotion - and all of this sums up the man himself. - [William Bennett OBE Hon RAM].The composer's wife Mrs Dilys Benson and the publisher have…

Also available for Alto (SP827). Songs for Claire is intended to portray a life journey with all the joys and trials that may be encountered. From a personal point of view it was written in memory of my childhood best friend Claire who sadly died of cancer aged 10. I think most people will be able to relate to the moods of the three movements and draw from their ownlife experiences in order t…

including the unfinished works-The second volume in this series of Franz Schubertâ??s Complete Piano Sonatas has been carefully edited annotated and fingered for the ABRSM by Howard Ferguson. This is part of a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works prepared from original sources by leading scholars including informative introductions performance notes and detaile…

This collection features songs that originated from the slave population of North America in the 19th Century. Beset by trouble sickness and backbreaking labor these songs bear witness to the slave longing for heaven where theymight find freedom and comfort. As a musical form the Spiritual stands as a classic expression of religious emotion. Includes: Swing Low Sweet Chariot Go Down Moses a…

An important and significant work written in London in 1942 and now published for the first time: 60 years later! The first movement is tuneful and full of those surprises Malcolm loves to introduce in his music. There are no shortage of jazz inspired ideas coloured always by that Arnold 'edge'. The second movement is a fiendish scherzo - full of amazing cross rhythms and of immense energy. The …

Rahbee’s Piano Sonata No. 2 is an appealing piece in the contemporary genre. Its wide-ranging expressive array is filled with fervor. The sonata’s untraditional tonalities allow the advanced student to experience a broader sense of musical expression. The first movement is rhapsodic in nature the second is a playful scherzando the third is warm and emotionally expressive and the last move…

Traummelodien für Klavier in leichten Arrangements - Dream Melodies for Piano in Easy Arrangements-A selection of the best songs from Hans-Gunter Heumann's Romantic Pop Piano Series. This fabulous book includes a performance CD which contains demonstrations of the pieces presented in the book.