The Faber Music Piano Anthology

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The Faber Music Piano Anthology is a must-have collection of core repertoire from the great composers. Beautifully presented in progressive order, it includes favourites from Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Satie, Bach, Tchaikovsky and many more. Featuring The Concerto linocut by Cyril Edward Power on the cover, with music selected by pianist Melanie Spanswick, it is ideal for pianists of every level.

“This beautifully produced gift book makes the perfect present for the enthusiastic amateur pianist of intermediate to advanced level”, “…a thing of splendor!”, “…a fabulous variety of great music, beautifully presented.”, “The selection of pieces is both unpredictable and delightful.”, “…definitely a collection to cherish!”

Andrew Eales, pianodao.com, November 2016

This one is for the pianists – the budding pianists, the lapsed pianists, the would-be pianists, and the piano teachers looking for ideas and motivation for their pupils. Melanie Spanswick brings together a delicious collection of short pieces carefully chosen according to progressive level, variety and concision, but happily non-dependent on exam syllabuses. For those who need new choices for practising and sometimes feel a bit daunted by the quantity of options, and unsure of their difficulty, it helps to solve the problem in one easy package. Choices range from Für Elise to a Satie Gnossienne and from a Fauré Romance sans paroles to a Snuffbox Waltz, no less, by Dargomyzhsky.

Jessica Duchen’s Classical Music Blog

Contents:

1. Air (Water Music) (Handel)
2. Alla Siciliana (Guilmant)
3. Allegro (from Sonata in C major K545 – 1st movement) (Mozart)
4. Andante (from Sonata in G K283) (Mozart)
5. Arabesque (Op.100 No.2)(Burgmüller)
6. Bagatelle (Diabelli)
7. Berceuse (Op.13 No.7) (Ilyinsky)
8. Chanson Triste (Tchaikovsky)
9. Come With Us! (from On An Overgrown Path)(Janáĉek)
10. Consolation (Op.30 No.3)(Mendelssohn)
11. Consolations (S172 No.1, Andante)(Liszt)
12. Danse Lente (Franck)
13. The Fall of the Leafe (Peerson)
14. Fantasia in D minor (K397) (Mozart)
15. Fröhlicher Landmann (The Merry Peasant)(Schumann)
16. Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, Wo059) (Beethoven)
17. Gnossienne No. 1(Satie)
18. Gymnopédie No.1 (Satie)
19. Gypsy Dance (Haydn)
20. Honey Humoresque (Dett)
21. Interlude (Franck)
22. Invocation à Schumann (Déodat de Séverac)
23. La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)(Debussy)
24. La Vision (Op.63 No.1) (Alkan)
25. L’Avalanche (Heller)
26. Le Petit Negre (Debussy)
27. Lento (Op.16 No.4 from 5 Preludes) (Scriabin)
28. Les pifferari (Gounod)
29. L’harmonie des Anges (Op.100 No.21) (Burgmüller)
30. Little Prelude in C (BWV 939) (Bach)
31. Malagueña de España (Albéniz)
32. Mazurka in C (Glinka)
33. Mélodie (Op.10 No.5 (Massenet)
34. Melody in F (Rubenstein)
35. Minuet in G (Bach)
36. Minuet in C (Scarlatti)
37. ‘Moonlight’ Sonata (No.14 in C sharp minor) (Beethoven)
38. Nocturne (from Sonata Romantica) (Britten)
39. Old French Song (Tchaikovsky)
40. Passepied (Delibes)
41. ‘Pathétique’ Sonata (Op.13 No.8 – 2nd movement) (Beethoven)
42. Piano Sonatina in G (Beethoven)
43. Prayer (Op.43 No.2) (Glière)
44. Prelude in C major (Bach)
45. Prelude from Suite No.5 in C (Z666) (Purcell)
46. Prelude in A major (Op.28 No.7) (Chopin)
47. Prelude in B minor (Op.28 No.6) (Chopin)
48. Prelude in B (Op.2 No.2) (Scriabin)
49. Prelude in E minor (Op.28 No.4) (Chopin)
50. Prelude (Op.36 No.3) (Lyadov)
51. Rêverie (Borodin)
52. Romance in G (Op.52 No.4) (Hummel)
53. Romance sans Paroles (Op.17 No.3) (Fauré)
54. Rondo alla Turca (from Sonata No.11 K331) (Mozart)
55. Sarabande (from Suite in D minor) (Handel)
56. Scherzo in B flat (D.593) (Schubert)
57. Scherzo No. 2 (from Aquarelles Op.19) (Gade)
58. Snuffbox Waltz (Dargomyzhsky)
59. Soldatenmarsch (Soldier’s March) (Schumann)
60. Solfeggietto (C.P.E. Bach)
61. Sonatina No.3 (Clementi)
62. Song (Reinecke)
63. Study in A flat (Heller)
64. Study in B minor (Op.139 No.98) (Czerny)
65. Study in C (Op.17 No.6) (Le Couppey)
66. Study in C (Op.63 No.1) (Köhler)
67. Study in F (Op.65 No.25) (Loeschhorn)
68. Sweet Dreams (Tchaikovsky)
69. To A Wild Rose (MacDowell)
70. To Alexis (Hummel)
71. Toccatina in C major (Op.8 No.1) (Maykapar)
72. The Top (from Humorous Bagatelles Op.11) (Nielsen)
73. Träumerei (from Kinderszenen Op.15) (Schumann)
74. Two-part invention No.8 in F major (Bach)
75. Une Larme (A Tear) (Mussorgsky)
76. Valse (Waltz) in A minor (B.150) (Chopin)
77. Waltz in A flat major (Op.39 No.15) (Brahms)
78. Waltz in A minor (from Lyric Pieces Op.12 No.2) (Grieg).