Easier Piano Pieces (ABRSM)

19th-century Danish composer Niels Gade was strongly influenced by Mendelssohn and Schumann as can be appreciated from the highly romantic pieces in this album - selected from albums published between...

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 Lessons for the Harpsichor...

Russian composer Alexander Grechaninov (1864-1956) studied under Rimsky-Korsakov at the St Petersburg Conservatory and later moved to Paris before settling finally in New York - this charming collecti...

Anton Diabelli was an Austrian publisher and composer immortalized in the piano repertoire as the composer of an inconsequential waltz theme transformed by Beethoven in his mighty set of variations- w...

from Domenico Scarlatti's vast output of 555 harpsichord sonatas a number have been edited and published by the Associated Board. Thirty-two of the easier sonatas have been edited by Howard Ferguson a...

Anatol Lyadov (1855-1914) was a Russian composer conductor teacher and collector and arranger of folksongs. Although he wrote few large-scale works he did compose numerous piano miniatures which - man...

Not so much 'easy-going' pieces with a sense of 'go'! Lionel Salter's collection provides a set of straightforward attractive pieces with plenty of rhythmic vitality and spirit for young beginners

15 party pieces for piano designed to be fun to play and conjure up a variety of scenes and images to fire the young player's imagination. At the same time, they have been skilfully written for beginn...

William Alwyn (1905-1985) was an English composer most noted for his five symphonies and over sixty film scores. The three piano collections in this album contain some delightful and colourful charact...

Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and teacher who composed a number of large-scale works and taught a generation of composers at the Vienna Conservatoire including the composers Mahler and Zemlins...

Terry Greaves takes a good-humoured look at ten nursery tunes and reclothes theme in a variety of popular styles - Swing Rock and Latin beats propel these pieces forwards to provide some excellent lig...