Easier Piano Pieces (ABRSM)

the Soviet composer Glière (1875-1956) was very much influenced by the 19th-century Russian romantic tradition. As the short pieces in this album demonstrate he was particularly skillful at expressing...

Tchaikovsky sub-titled this collection first published in 1878 24 easy pieces (à la Schumann). Like his predecessor Tchaikovsky had the innate ability of writing for young people without writing down...

Cornelius Gurlitt was a prolific German composer and pianist. This collection provides a set of 12 contrasting pieces for piano, displaying particular charm and character.

An outstanding Austrian contemporary of Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was renowned throughout Europe as a virtuoso pianist with a phenomenal technique. This collection of attractive and...

These colourful pieces, based on Spanish and Latin-American dances, are tuneful, light-hearted and full of rhythmic zest. They will be enjoyed by any pianist looking to spice up their repertoire with...

This album brings together three groups of pieces, all written in 1913 by the eccentric French composer, Erik Satie. They are ingeniously devised to make full and basic use of the five fingers of each...

the Op. 39 Waltzes were composed by Johannes Brahms in 1865. Originally intended as piano duets the composer arranged simplified versions of the duets for solo piano two years later and it is these th...

The Spanish pianist, teacher and composer Enrique Granados was one of the founders of the modern school of piano music in Spain and wrote many pieces for the instrument. These 'Stories of the Young' p...

Most of the pieces gathered in this volume were written before Schumann was 30; a period when when he was writing many of his greatest piano works and shortly before the wonderful outpouring of songs...

the pieces in this album have been chosen from those composed by Mozart for harpsichord between the ages of five and nine and include 14 pieces from the 'London Notebook' of 1784 - aside from illustra...

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806-1874) was a popular Parisian pianist skilled improviser and prolific composer - these varied studies will help develop technique and are also enjoyable to play...

The compositions of Stephen Heller (1813-1885), a prolific composer of music for piano, were known for their musical interest and touches of charming ingenuity. His popular studies, twenty of which ar...

Michael Rose teacher and composer wrote these three attractive piano sonatinas as birthday presents for his wife a young friend and his daughter. They are contemporary in idiom and written with the yo...

this collection provides an excellent introduction to the music of one of the greatest composers for the piano - chosen for their comparative lack of technical difficulty these pieces range across Cho...

Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813) who held the post of director of music at Halle University was responsible for the most influential keyboard tutor of its day the monumental Klavierschule. He also wrot...

Tchaikovsky sub-titled this collection first published in 1878 24 easy pieces (à la Schumann). Like his predecessor Tchaikovsky had the innate ability of writing for young people without writing down...

Schumann composed his Album for the Young in 1848 in less than a month. He wrote at the time: I dont remember ever having been in such good musical form ... The pieces simply poured out one after anot...

This delightful collection of Preludes provides an excellent introduction to the music of the Baroque period. The album is grouped in three sets of six each: the first comes from the Wilhelm Friedeman...

Bach composed these Inventions in 1722/3 for the instruction in keyboard playing and composition of his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, who was then just 12. Richard Jones's edition of these pieces is...

among Franck's last compositions was L'Organiste a collection of pieces for the harmonium and intended for use by church organists - this album selects 25 of these tuneful and graceful miniatures whic...

These two sets of pieces display all the characteristics of the music of this fine English composer - modal inflections, the influence of 16th-century English composers, quirky fast movements, and, in...

This volume brings together two early collections by Grieg to form an attractive first book of characterful piano pieces.- the Lyric Pieces published when the composer was 24 are amongst the easiest p...

the pieces in this album have been selected from several collections of easier piano pieces by this nineteenth-century German composer- highly romantic and colourful they are enjoyable to play and pro...

Eduard Schütt (1856-1933) was born and brought up in St Petersburg but spent most of his working life in Vienna. He composed a great many poetic and melodious miniatures for piano from which some of t...

19th-century Danish composer Niels Gade was strongly influenced by Mendelssohn and Schumann as can be appreciated from the highly romantic pieces in this album - selected from albums published between...