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 …
These sonatinas are selected from the six volumes of keyboard music published by the 18th-century composer Georg Benda between 1780 and 1787. Small scale, these single-movement …
Not so much 'easy-going' pieces as pieces with a sense of 'go'! Lionel Salter's collection provides a set of straightforward, attractive pieces with plenty of rhythmic vitality and …
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 …
Telemann composed three dozen Fantasias, which were published in 1732. He deliberately set out to juxtapose the French and Italian styles, with the first and third (published here) …
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 …
The composition of the notable Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is highly individualistic. The six Humorous Bagatelles, written in 1894-7, are among his most charming works …
Of Polish origin, Moszkowski was a celebrated pianist and teacher during the last twenty years of the 19th century. Paderewski said of him that his piano music embraced the whole …
Benjamin Godard was a French composer and violinist who wrote a great many pieces for the piano. This instructional album of studies provides some interesting contrasts of styles.
Of the three known compositions of Richard Jones, who was leader of the orchestra at the Drury Lane Theatre in London, only one is devoted to keyboard music: Suits or setts of …
