Synopses & Reviews
Features 102 selections drawn from rich 19th-century Romantic symphonies, ballets, operas and piano literature, arranged for beginning to intermediate-level players. Composers include Brahms, Bruckner, Chopin, Gounod, Grieg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and others. Melodies are presented as faithful transcriptions in new, clean engravings. Includes capsule biographies of all of the composers represented. Also available for Intermediate to Advanced Piano Solo (00240096).
Table of Contents
Prince Igor. Polovetzian dance, first theme / Alexander Borodin -- Wiegenlied. Lullaby ; Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68, 4th movement excerpt ; Symphony no. 4 in E minor, op. 98, 1st movement excerpt / Johannes Brahms -- Symphony no. 7, 2nd movement excerpt / Anton Bruckner -- Mazurka in E minor, op. 17, no. 2 ; Waltz in F minor, op. 70, no. 2 / Frâedâeric Chopin -- Panis angelicus / Câesar Franck -- Funeral march of a marionette, themes / Charles Gounod -- Peer Gynt. In the hall of the mountain king ; Grandmother's minuet / Edvard Grieg -- Selections from Album leaves for the young, op. 101 / Cornelius Gurlitt -- Avalanche, op. 45, no. 2 ; The tolling bell, op. 125, no.8 / Stephen Heller -- Woodland sketches. To a wild rose, op. 51 / Edward MacDowell -- Symphony no. 5, 4th movement excerpt (adagietto) / Gustav Mahler -- Thaèis. Meditiation / Jules Massenet -- Selections from Songs without words, op. 19 ; Symphony no. 4 ("Italian"), op. 90, 1st movement excerpt / Felix Mendelssohn -- Piano concerto no. 2, 1st movement excerpt / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Sheherazade. Themes from part 1 / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- Andante in C major (1812) ; Waltz in G major, op. 67, no. 15 / Franz Schubert -- Selections from Kinderszenen (scenes from childhood), op. 15 ; Waltz, op. 129, no. 4 / Robert Schumann -- By the beautiful blue Danube. Themes ; Tales from the Vienna Woods. Themes / Johann Strauss, Jr. -- 1812 overture, excerpt ; Selections from Album for children (Album pour enfants), op. 39 ; The Nutcracker. Waltz of the flowers excerpt / Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky.