Description
Here we have a collection of 30 new piano pieces – musically serious but unvirtuosic – reflecting the wide spectrum of compositional trends apparent in new music today. It serves as an invaluable introduction to contemporary music and is suitable for students, amateur and professional pianists of all ages.
The pieces range in levels of difficulty from Grade 1 to Grade 6 and also includes composer biographies and performance notes.
Commissioned by Thalia Myers, a pianist and a teacher.
Contents:
- Only a wish away [Eleanor Alberga]
- A Story Untold [Avril Anderson]
- Somewhere near Cluj [Julian Anderson]
- Sunset over Stac Pollaidh [David Bedford]
- Taking a line for a walk [Richard Rodney Bennett]
- The Little Bear [Diana Burrell]
- Slow Moon [Philip Cashian]
- Chorale for Howard Skempton [Laurence Crane]
- Plaint [Brian Elias]
- Tango [Michael Finnissy]
- Tunch [Graham Fitkin]
- High Ground [Michael Zev Gordon]
- Haiku [Jonathan Harvey]
- Lizard [Alun Hoddinott]
- October Monody [Gabriel Jackson]
- In Memoriam [Neil Kaczor]
- Rosamund’s March [Colin Matthews]
- Foglie d’Autunno [Edward McGuire]
- Clouds [Barry Mills]
- Tsunami [Stephen Montague]
- Micro-Sonata [Anthony Payne]
- arc [Roger Redgate]
- Nyanyushka’s Song [Jeremy Dale Roberts]
- Hallowe’en [Edwin Roxburgh]
- Cat being bold at first [Timothy Salter]
- l’escalier [David Sawer]
- Arpeggio [Howard Skempton]
- Tuesday [Dave Smith]
- Zodiacs [John Tavener]
- Little Dances [Andrew Toovey]
