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Few composers have written for the piano with greater poetry and elegance than Frédéric Chopin. His Nocturnes are among the most cherished works in the piano repertoire, renowned for their singing mel...

Muzio Clementi's Sonatinas for piano were among the earliest keyboard works to embrace the expressive possibilities of the newly emerging pianoforte, rather than the harpsichord. Their graceful melodi...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is rightly celebrated as one of the great architects of the Classical style. During a remarkably long and productive career, he composed over sixty piano sonatas, works...

The seven miniatures in this volume have been carefully selected and sympathetically simplified to provide an accessible introduction to Mendelssohn's piano music. As with all titles in the Simplest S...

The Viennese composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) learned to play the piano, violin and viola as a boy, even performing the viola in the family string quartet. Although he lived for just thirty-one yea...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was composed principally between 1804 and 1808 and received its first performance in Vienna in December 1808. With its unforgettable four-note opening and compelling journey...

Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor was composed during the summer of 1788 and is one of only two symphonies Mozart wrote in a minor key. Its urgent opening, graceful melodies and moments of dramatic...

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, known as the Pathétique, was completed in 1893 and first performed in Saint Petersburg with Tchaikovsky himself conducting. Its four movements encompass passio...

Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major was composed during the summer of 1883 and first performed in Vienna later that year. Although it is the shortest of Brahms's four symphonies, it encompasses a remarka...

The Symphonie fantastique was composed in 1830 and first performed in Paris later that year. Its five movements tell the feverish story of a young artist haunted by an idealised vision of his beloved,...

Dvořák's Symphony No. 8 in G major was composed in 1889 and first performed in Prague the following year, conducted by Dvořák himself. Warm, joyful and full of invention, the symphony evokes the natur...

The Four Seasons comprises four violin concertos entitled Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Published in Amsterdam in 1725 as part of Vivaldi's Op. 8, each concerto vividly portrays scenes from the n...

Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E major was composed between 1881 and 1883 and first performed in Leipzig in 1884. Its warmly lyrical opening, magnificent slow movement and immense architectural sweep br...

Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major was composed principally between 1887 and 1888 and first performed in Budapest in 1889. Sometimes known as the Titan, it takes the listener on a remarkable journey f...

Schubert completed his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major in 1816, when he was just nineteen years old. Scored for a relatively small orchestra, the work reflects his admiration for Mozart while speaking...

A selection of Bach's most interesting harmonisations, with equal opportunities for each of the four players. Fairly easy to play, ideal for group teaching. Contents O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (2 s...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U120) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

Sonata in G is known as "Sibley No. 12", because the manuscript is in the possession of the Sibley Music Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, U.S.A. The Optional Basso Continuo part is fre...

The Lake Isle takes its inspiration from W.B. Yeats' poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", from which four lines are quoted in the score. The piece captures both the sombre note of the "pavement grey" an...

The music is an advanced contemporary style and playable by experienced students or professionals. Its musical structure is essentially cyclic, drawing upon a small number of recurring motivic ideas—...

Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), the son of a baker, wrote his first opera at the age of thirteen. In 1882, aged nineteen, he was admitted to the Milan Conservatory, where he studied for...

For many listeners, the French composer Jules Massenet (1842-1912) is best known for the exquisite Méditation from his opera Thaïs (1894; revised 1898). While the opera itself is now performed only o...

Tricks and Games comprises a series of short and contrasting pieces, in a light, yet essentially modern idiom. Parts are intended to be played by two pupils of similar abilities, rather than by teache...

Commissioned by the Sascha Lasserson Memorial Trust, Questions was first performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, by the finalists in the 1990 Sascha Lasserson Memorial Violin Competition. The w...

Set sail for an exhilarating musical adventure! With "Salty Airs for Seagoing Saxophones" from the renowned Clifton Edition, you bring four lively, maritime medleys directly to your music stand. Broug...