Schott

Composers: Various
Editor: Hans-Gunter Heumann
Format: Softcover
Instrumentation: Piano

This sequel to Best of Piano Classics presents a selection of 40 arrangements of popular classical masterpieces. The contents include great works from Bach to Gershwin, ranging from chamber music, symphonies and concertos through to opera. This selection of musical favourites presents the best known and loveliest pieces of classical music from the Baroque era through to the 20th Century, from 'Air' to 'Rhapsody in Blue'. In a modern printing with fingerings, tempo and pedal suggestions added, these appealing arrangements for advanced players are easy to read, and are recommended not only for tuition purposes, but for all those who enjoy playing the piano in their leisure time.

Contents:
J. S. Bach:

• Air D major BWV 1068
• Badinerie B minor BWV 1067
• Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring from Cantate No 147

J. Clarke:

• Trumpet Voluntary

G. F. Handel:

• Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes HWV 40
• Alla Hornpipe, from Water Music, Suite No 2, HWV 349

M-A. Charpentier:

• Prelude from Te Deum H 146

A. Vivaldi:

• Spring from The Four Seasons op. 8/1

J. Pachelbel:

• Canon

J. Haydn:

• Serenade op. 3/5
• Symphony Surprise, 2nd movement

W. A. Mozart:

• A Little Night Music, 2nd movement
• Clarinet Concerto KV 622, 2nd movement
• Symphony No 40 KV 550, 1st movement
• Piano Concerto No 21 KV 467, 2nd movement

L. van Beethoven:

• Symphony No 5 op. 67 / 1st movement
• Piano Concerto No 5 op. 73 / 2nd movement
• Song of Joy op. 125

L. Boccherini:

• Minuet from String Quintet op. 13 / 5

F. Schubert:

• Serenade
• Ave Maria op. 52 / 6, D 839

G. Verdi:

• Va pensiero, from Nabucco
• Triumphal March from Aida

C. Gounod:

• Ave Maria

R. Wagner:

• Song to the Evening Star from Tannhauser

I. Ivanovici:

• Waves of Danube

J. Offenbach:

• Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour (Barcarole)

E. Humperdinck:

• Abends, will ich schlafen gehen, from Hansel and Gretel

C. Saint- Saens:

• The Swan from Le Carneval des animaux

R. Schumann:

• Piano Concerto A Minor op. 54 / 1st movement

P. I. Tschaikowsky:

• Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker
• Piano Concerto No 1 op. 23 / 1st movement

A. Dvorak:

• Symphony from the New World No. 95, op. 95, 2nd movement

E. Grieg:

• Piano Concerto op. 16, 1st movement
• Solvejg's Song from Peer Gynt Suite No 2 op. 55

E. Elgar:

• Land of Hope and Glory, from Pomp and Circumstance op 39 / 1 (Trio)
• Salut d'amour op. 12

G. Mahler:

• Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 C# minor, 4th movement

C.Orff:

• O fortuna from Carmina Burana

G. Gershwin:

• Rhapsody in Blue