Schott Musik

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade perfomer's certificate)

Commissioned by Washington Performing Arts Society for Leif Oves Andnes who gave the first performance. They are attractive and not too difficult, clearly stamped with Turnage`s lyrical style.

Short tuneful pieces to help new pianists of all ages to co-ordinate their playing with hands together, and to widen their range and knowledge of notes and rhythmic patterns.

This short solo piano piece is a variation on a theme by Rameau. Casken has created in this work a broad Gaelic sound world along with sultry Debussian colours.The piece was written for the British pi...

Each of the 'Three Japanese Miniatures' is a new challenge to the pianist: In each piece, a different playing technique is developed in a subtle and concentrated way.

It is quite essential from the very start to arouse the musical imagination of the young pupil. The problem of teaching dynamics, phrasing, variety of touch, is greatly simplified, because the active...

A quartet of paintings by the American Mark Tobey that displays expanses of white in various shades provides the inspiration for this solo piano work. The images from the paintings are translated into...

This short piano work is one of Hesketh's most successful, taken from his opera The Overcoat - it would be an ideal opener to any recital programme.

In his programme note, Hesketh describes a conceit as an extended metaphor which can govern part of or an entire poem thereby leading to a more sophisticated understanding of the subject. Within the 2...

Watkins' 'Four Inventions' evolved from the composer's conversations with writer Rhett Griffiths who commissioned the work about his poem 'The Sibling Solution'. The poem is included with the publicat...

Le Vieux Sourd (The Old Deaf One) was Debussy's nickname for Beethoven. The piece is a setting of Auld Lang Syne which Beethoven also arranged.Gerald Barry (2012)

Written at the same time as the composer's Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal), Bryars' Ramble on Cortona is the first piece the composer has penned for solo piano in his esteemed career. Like his piano...

This exciting new teaching method, by the renowned piano pedagogue Hans-Günter Heumann is ideal for adults and young people looking to learn the piano from scratch, or for those returning to the piano...

The title of this work is a reference to the poem Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats. Important images from the poem are freely connected to suggest musical gestures and contours. Such phrases as peri...