- Animations (Piano)
27 pieces on the lively side
Instrumentation: Piano
Animations is a collection of pieces focusing on lively rhythms and sparkling, crisply-articulated playing - though not all the music is at faster tempos. There are goblins and grasshoppers, gypsies and witches; Grieg and Goldschmidt co-exist with Horne and Hummel; there is entertaining and sometimes unfamiliar music by Scarlatti, Schumann and Chopin. There is dance music a plenty, as you would expect in an album devoted to movement, and as well as a waltz and a mazurka, there is a gigue by Reger and a galop by Casella.
Contents |
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| Bartók Winter solstice song | |
| Benjamin Haunted house | |
| Casella Galop final | |
| Copland The young pioneers | |
| Couperin Air in the Polish style | |
| CPE Bach Allegro assai | |
| Davies Piano piece no 19 | |
| Dunhill A dulcimer tune | |
| Goldschmidt Scherzo |
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| Grieg Tomorrow you will marry | |
| Hellen Study op 47 no 11 | |
| Hofmann ‘Hungarian’ | |
| Horne In Seven |
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| Hummel Allegro from Caprice op 49 | |
| Kodály Children’s dance no 11 | |
| Kullak Playing in the fields op 62 no 4 . . . | |
| Mendelssohn Song without words op 102 no 3 | |
| Mozart Allegro | |
| Prokofieff Procession of the grasshoppers |
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| Quilter Goblins | |
| Reger Gigue | |
| Scarlatti Sonata K 431 | |
| Schubert Minuet no 11 | |
| Schubert Minuet no 23 | |
| Schumann Gypsy Dance | |
| Tchaikovsky The witch | |
| von Wilm Butterfly op 235 no 2 . | |
Press Reviews
Every page is a treat . . . I love these books.
John York, Piano magazine, September 2007