עורך: James Bastien
אוסף יצירות קלסיות מתאימים למתחילים בפסנתר, כדי להתחיל להכיר את הספרות המוסיקלית.
הסברים של תקופות המוסיקה עם תמונות צבע, והכרות עם חיי המלחינים. באוסף יצירות שנכתבו במקור לפסנתר ועיבודים של יצירות סימפוניות.
תוכן:
Baroque Period
J.S. Bach - March in D maj, Minuet in D min, Minuet in G min, 2 MInuets in G maj, Musette in D maj, Musette from English Suite No. 3, Prelude in C maj
Arcangelo Corelli - Sarabande
Francois Couperin - Le Petit Rien
G.F. Handel - Minuet in F maj, Sarabande and Variation
Henry Purcell - Air
Jean Philippe Rameau - Minuet in Rondo Form
Domenico Scarlatti - Minuetto in C
Georg Philipp Telemann - Gavotte
Classical Period
Ludwig van Beethoven - Ecossaise in G, Fur Elise, Russian Folk Song, Sonatina in G
Muziio Clementi - Sonatina Op 36, No 1
Anton Diabelli - Bagatelle
Franz J. Haydn - German Dance, Minuet in F maj, Minuet in G, Scherzo from Sonata No. 3
W.A. Mozart - Allegro in Bb maj, Minuet and Trio K1, Minuet in C K6, Minuet in F K2
Ignaz Pleyel - Minuet
Romantic Period
Johann Burgmuller - Arabesque, Ballade
Cornelius Gurlitt - Morning Song
Edward MacDowell - To a Wild Rose
Felix Mendelssohn - Romanze
Franz Schubert - Waltz in A, Waltz in C
Robert Schumann - Firist Loss, Hunting Song, Little Song, The Merry Farmer, Sicilienne, Soldiers' March, To a Wild Horseman
Peter Tchaikovsky - The Doll's Funeral, Italian Folk Song
Carl Maria von Weber - Scherzo
Contemporary Period
Bela Bartok - Folk Dance, Follow the Leader, Hungarian Folk Song, Sad Song, Springtime Song, The Weary Traveler
Dmitri Kabalevsky - The Clown, Follow the Leader, Little DAnce, Sonatina, Toccatina
Aram Khatchaturian - Ivan Sings
Dmitri Shoshokovich - March, Waltz
Arrangements
George Bizet - Toreador Song from "Carmen"
Alexander Borodin - Polovetzian Dance from "Prince Igor"
Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5, Symphony No. 1
Frederic Chopiin - Fantasie Impromptu, Noctourne
Anton Dvorak - New World Symphony
Charles Gounod - Ave Maria
Advard Grieg - Piano Concerto No. 1, I Love Thee
Franz Joseph Haydn - Surprise Symphony
Franz Liszt - Liebestraum
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff - Scheharazade
Camille Saint-Saens - My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice
Franz Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
Johann Strauss - Emperor Waltz
Peter Tchaikovsky - Pathetique Symphony, Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 5