Album for the Young
64 Piano Classics Written by the Masters
Series: Music Sales America
Publisher: Chester Music
Format: Softcover
Composer: Various
Features 64 original classical piano pieces inspired by the spirit of childhood. For intermediate to advanced players. Composers include Richard Rodney Bennett, Franz Liszt, Witold Lutoslawski, Carl Nielsen, Francis Poulenc, Robert Schumann, and more.
Contents: BACH: Two-part Invention No. 4 in D minor • Two-part Invention No. 8 in F Major • BEETHOVEN: Sonatina in G Major - 1st movement • BENNETT: Two Turtle Doves, Eight Maids a-Milking • BERKELEY: Mr. Pilkington's Toye • BRAHMS: Wiegenlied (Cradle Song) • CHAPPLE: The Blue Pool (On The Cool Side) • Far From Home (In The Pink) • The Snow Melts (Lazy Days) • DEBUSSY: The Little Shepherd (Children's Corner) • DE FALLA: Melisandra (Master Peter's Puppet Show) • FAURE: Berceuse (Dolly Suite) • FENTON: Lady Of Letters • The Monocled Mutineer • Valse Triste (The Cherry Orchard) • FRANCK: Puppet's Complaint • GRIEG: Wiegenlied • My Love She Was So Pure • At Gellert's Grave (No. 3 from 9 Children's Pieces) • HUMMEL: Playful Dialogue • LEIGHTON: The Swan (Pieces for Angela, Op. 47) • LISZT: Etude en douze exercices, S. 136, No. 3 • Wiegenlied, S. 198 • LUTOSLAWSKI: Master Michael • The Schoolmaster • An Air (No. 2 from Three Pieces for the Young • V. Allegro marciale (Bucolics) • MATTHEWS: Aria (Six Tunes for Lucy) • MAXWELL DAVIES: I. Andante (Six Secret Songs) • MENDELSSOHN: I. Allegro non troppo (Six Pieces for Children, Op. 72) • MOMPOU: Pessebres (Creches) (Nativity Scene) • MOZART: Theme and Three Variations on “Ah, Vous Dirai-je, Maman,” K. 265 • Sonata in C Major, K. 545, 1st movement • NIELSEN: Piano Music for Young and Old, No. 1 • POULENC: The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant, The Tea Shop • RAVEL: Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty (Mother Goose) • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Young Prince and the Young Princess (Scheherazade) • ROWLEY: Prelude and Fugue No. 4 (Five Miniature Preludes and Fugues) • SAINT-SAENS: The Elephant (The Carnival of the Animals) • SCHUBERT: Ecossaises No. 5 and No. 8 (Eight Ecossaises, D. 977) • SCHUMANN: Album for the Young: Melody • Soldier's March • Humming Song • Little Piece • The Wild Horseman • The Happy Farmer, Returning from Work • Sicilienne • Little Study • First Loss • Wintertime II • Mignon • Scenes From Childhood: Of Foreign Lands and People • The Poet Speaks • Frightening • STRAVINSKY: Waltz (Three Easy Pieces) • Les Cinq Doigts, No. 1 • TCHAIKOVSKY: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker Suite) • Dance of the Cygnets (Swan Lake) • Album for the Young: Maman • March of the Wooden Soldiers • The New Doll • The Sick Doll