Weekend Competition: The Faber Music Piano Anthology

I’m extremely honoured to have been invited to compile a new anthology for leading UK music publisher, Faber Music. This hefty volume is designed to be a gift book for anyone who enjoys playing (or who fancies exploring) a large and varied collection of piano works. A luxury hardback edition featuring high-quality premium paper, page finder ribbon and ‘The Concerto’ linocut cover image by Cyril Edward Power, this book would make a great Christmas gift for that ‘difficult to buy for’ amateur pianist relative! On a lighter note, it would also morph into a wonderful coffee table book.

Piano teachers and students requiring extra or alternative repertoire (post exams!), or sight-reading material, will enjoy the broad range on offer here, and many teachers have already remarked that they intend to use the book as part of the now famous 40 Piece Challenge devised by Australian composer and writer Elissa Milne (find out more about this here).

The Faber Music Piano Anthology provides a musical journey through the history of piano music (almost!), starting with the late-Renaissance era, finishing in the mid to late Twentieth Century. It takes pianists from elementary (around Grade 2 ABRSM level) to advanced (Grade 8), and there are 78 pieces in total, which I selected from Faber’s large catalogue of publications (containing around 400 works).

Well-known and favourite pieces rub shoulders with less familiar works, providing an interesting and eclectic mix. Here’s the content list (although the pieces don’t appear in this order in the book):

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)

Released just last month, you can order your copy here. Or alternatively, I have one signed copy to give away to one lucky reader. Please leave your comment in the comment box provided to be in with a chance of winning, and I will choose the winner on Sunday evening (British time). Good luck!

www.fabermusic.co.uk

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