Book Description

The Chester Piano Anthology presents 39 popular works for piano featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond, with a preface by Martin James Bartlett. Songlist: - Ecce Ancilla Domini [Jehan Alain] - Sarabande [Malcolm Arnold] - Essay III For Piano [Samuel Barber] - China Gates [John Adams] - Romanian Folk Dances, VI. Fast Dance [Béla Bartók] - Two Turtle-Doves (No. 2 from Partridge Pie) [Richard Rodney] - Excursions, I. Vivo [Richard Rodney] - Prelude No. 5 (from Six Preludes, Op. 23) [Lennox Berkeley] - Interlude No. 2 (from Two Interludes For Piano) [Arthur Bliss] - Spanish Dance (No. 6 from Bagatelles Diverses) [Brian Chapple] - Sub Tuam Protectionem (from Two Piano Pieces) [Peter Maxwell Davies] - Staccato Beans (No. 2 from Eight Memories In Watercolor) [Tan Dun] - Trois Préludes, I. D’ombre Et De Silence [Henri Dutilleux] - Sonatina, II. Allegro [Edward Elgar] - Danse Du Meunier (from The Three-Cornered Hat) [Manuel De Falla] - Etude No. 14 [Philip Glass] - An Album For My Friends, II. Adam’s Allemande [Edward Gregson] - Notturno Alla Italiana (No. 1 from Pièces D’amour) [Reynaldo Hahn] - Sonatina 1947, II. Andantino [Hans Werner Henze] - Jig (1932) [Gustav Holst] - Puck (No. 3 from Lyric Pieces, Op. 71) [Edvard Grieg] - Le Cortège De Balkis (No. 10 from Histoires) [Jacques Ibert] - Suite For Piano, I. Moderate [Dello Joio] - Prélude En Forme De Scherzo [Bohuslav Martinů] - Petites Esquisses D’oiseaux, II. Le Merle Noir [Olivier Messiaen] - Snowfall In Winter (Study No. 9 ’Hommage À Debussy’) [John Mccabe] - Sonata No. 2, II. Léger [Darius Milhaud] - Pajaro Triste [Federico Mompou] - A Hudson Cycle [Nico Muhly] - Nocturne No. 8 [Francis Poulenc] - Novelette No. 1 In C Major [Francis Poulenc] - Consolation (No. 5 from 13 Morceaux, Op. 76) [Jean Sibelius] - Venus In 94 (No. 2 from The Heaven Ladder Book 7) [Terry Riley] - Prelude [Kaija Saariaho] - A Soldier’s Tale (L’histoire Du Soldat), III. Marche Royale [Igor Stravinsky] - 6/11/98 [Joby Talbot] - Three Piano Pieces, Op. 5, III. Calmo [Hugh Wood] - Romance (from Sylvia) [Gabriel Yared] - I’ve Turned The Page… [Judith Weir]