Steinway & Sons: Romancing The Piano

This book-plus-CD package includes 22 pieces by the masters of the Romantic Era, featuring compositions by Alkan, Beach, Borodin, Brahms, Cervantes, Chopin, Dvorak, Fauré, Field, Grieg, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelssohn, Padereweski, Rossini, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and more! From intermediate to advanced-intermediate levels, these are the kind of beautiful melodies that audiences-and students-crave works not often found in a single volume. The engravings are new and easy to read, with plenty of space on each page. Joseph Smith , whose work in Piano Today and on National Public Radio has been admired by thousands, has compiled and edited the all the music, providing an historical overview and end notes. He is also the pianist on the CD offering gorgeous performances of all of the works contained in the volume.

Published by Ekay Music, Inc.

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CONTENTS

The Vision, from Sketches: Forty Eight Motifs Op. 63, No. 1 (1861) Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)
Scottish Legend, Op. 54, No. 1 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Mazurka in D-flat major, no. 4 of Petite Suite, 1885 Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Intermezzo in E major, No. 6 from Fantasias, Op. 116, 1892 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
¡Te quiero tanto! (I Love You So Much!) Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905)
Song without Words in A minor, No. 6 from Twelve Pieces, Op. 40 (1878) Peter Ilyich Chaikovsky (1840-1893)
Valse in A-flat major, Op. 69, No.1 (posthumous) (Adieu) (1835) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Valse in C major, No. 1 from Three-Fours, Op. 71 (1909) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Humoresque in A-flat major, Op. 101, No. 3 (1894) Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Fantaisie, No. 2 from Eight Short Pieces, Op. 84, (1869-1902) Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Thirteenth Nocturne, in D minor, H. 59 (1834) John Field (1782-1837)
Gjendine's Cradle-Song, No. 19 from Nineteen Norwegian Folk Tunes, Op. 66 1896 Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Consolation No. 2 in E major (1850) Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Romance, No 3 from Twelve Etudes, Op. 39, 1890 Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
Fantasy or Caprice, Op. 16, No. 1 1829 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Melody in B major, No. 3 from Songs of a Voyager, Op. 8 (1883) Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
A Caress for My Wife, from Sins of My Old Age (1857-1868) Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Romance in E-flat, No. 1 from Soirées in Saint Petersburg, Op. 44 1860 Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Variation on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, D. 718 (1821) Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Mignon, No. 35 from Album for the Young, Op. 68 (1848) Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Prelude in E minor, Op. 11, No. 4 (1888) Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Album Leaf in C major for Princess Metternich (1861) Richard Wagner (1813-1883)


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