The Piano Player: Uplifting Classics

The Piano Player: Uplifting Classics presents 20 of the most famous pieces of classical music, ideal to lift the spirits and specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Can-Can by Offenbach, Zadok The Priest by Handel and William Tell Overture by Rossini. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's colour linocut Aesop's Fables: Peacock and Magpie, 1970, and a double-side colour print provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. 

The Piano Player series includes several wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork.

'The Piano Player series continues to be a special one, each new collection delivering an attractive feast of favourite pieces, a few lesser-known tunes further stimulating interest, and all presented with tasteful artistry and a fetching allure.

Uplifting Classics, in common with its predecessors, is perfectly poised to win the affection of adult players who enjoy exploring great tunes, and are ready for a fresh smile! More please!'

Andrew Eales, www.pianodao.com, August 2023

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon) (HWV 67) (Handel); The Blue Danube Waltz (Op. 314) (Strauss II); Can-Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld) (Offenbach); Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F# minor (Brahms); I Vow to Thee, My Country (Holst); In the Hall of the Mountain King (Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt) (Op. 46: IV) (Grieg); Les Toréadors (Suite No. 1 from Carmen) (Bizet); The Liberty Bell March (Sousa); Mazurka in C (Op. 33, No. 3) (Chopin); Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) (Elgar); Ode to Joy (from Symphony No. 9) (Beethoven); Radetzky March (Op. 228) (Strauss I); Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walküre) (WWV 86B) (Wagner); Rondo Alla Turca (from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major) (K. 331) (Mozart); Scherzo (from Piano Sonata in G minor) (Clara Schumann); Sheep May Safely Graze (from the Hunting Cantata) (BWV 208) (J.S. Bach); Triumphal March (from Aida) (Verdi); Wedding March (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) (Op.61) (Mendelssohn); William Tell Overture (Rossini); Zadok The Priest (Coronation Anthem No.1) (HWV 258) (Handel)