The Piano Player Series: Uplifting Classics
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- Composers: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1862), Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano
- Originally for: Piano, Basso continuo, Piano 4-Hands, SATB Choir, Soprano, Orchestra, Opera, Recorder I, Recorder II
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Description
The Piano Player: Uplifting Classics presents 20 of the most famous pieces of classical music, ideal to lift the spirits and specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include "Can-Can" by Offenbach, "Zadok The Priest" by Handel and "William Tell Overture" by Rossini. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's color linocut Aesop's Fables: Peacock and Magpie , 1970, and a double-side color print provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible.
The Piano Player series includes several wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork.
Works:
- J. Strauss II: An der schönen (The Blue Danube), Op. 314
- Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze (Aria from the "Hunting Cantata"), BWV 208, No. 9
- No. 5 from Brahms: Ungarische Tänze (21 Hungarian Dances), WoO 1
- Ode to Joy from Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor ("Choral"), Op. 125
- Rossini: William Tell Overture
- Scherzo from Cl. Schumann: Piano Sonata in G Minor (1842)
- Chopin: Mazurka in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3
- Nimrod from Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma Variations"), Op. 36
- Handel: Zadok the priest, HWV 258
- Can-Can from Offenbach: Orpheus in The Underworld
- Mozart: "Alla Turca" from Sonata in A Major, K. 331
- Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King, Op. 46, No. 4
- Les Toréadors from Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 (1882)
- The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Handel: Solomon, HWV 67
The Piano Player Series: Uplifting Classics
