20th Century Repertoire

Compiled by Hywel Davies. The first of two volumes dedicated to the pedagogical piano music of Bartok. This volume contains excerpts from For Children, Mikrokosmos, Fourteen Bagatelles, Ten Easy

Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco composed 52 Greeting Cards for various instruments between 1953 and 1967, collectively catalogued as opus 170, which he developed in a non-systematic manner up to the year before

Pianist Thomas Y. Tirino's 2 previously published volumes (7 Danzas Cubans tipicas and Valses de concierto) are combined here with 19 new pieces by the Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. Included is a new

Cole Porter's only attempt at a "serious" composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota, when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Creation du monde. Both pieces were

"Summertime Variations is the third arrangement I have made of Gershwin's Summertime – and the first for solo piano. It begins and ends very quietly and cantabile with a meditation on the well-known

The first movement has a dreamy and dramatic impressionistic quality, whereas the second movement is deeply melancholy and religious sounding. The third movement is playful with pulsating rhythms, which

Persistently melodic, with constant forward movement, accompanied by densely chromatic harmonies and many polyrhythmic sections, creating an intensely dramatic work.

A bold and invigorating first movement, a mysterious and tender second movement and a third movement with several mood shifts from lyrical to highly rhythmical.

This original edition of the famous Ravel Sonatine is once again available after a long absence. Ravel wrote his Sonatine in response to a magazine competition, in which submitted works

From the bestselling author of Improvising Blues Piano, Exploring Jazz Piano 1 & 2 and Exploring Latin Piano comes a collection of new Jazz, Latin and contemporary repertoire for solo piano. This

The 20th Century series presents music by some of the greatest composers of the modern era, composers who wrote a full range of music for orchestra, voices, piano and chamber ensembles, in the great and