Boosey & Hawkes The Boosey & Hawkes Solo Piano Collection: Ballet & Other Dances - Intermediate Piano - Book

Composer: Various
Arrangers: Carol Klose, Christopher Norton, Hywel Davies
Format: Softcover
Instrumentation: Piano
Level: Intermediate

The Boosey & Hawkes Solo Piano Collection provides the intermediate pianist with exciting repertoire in accessible yet authentic arrangements.

Ballet & Other Dances brings together a huge breadth of repertoire from around the world in a fine collection of 30 well-known themes from the stage. Popular Russian favourites such as Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No. 2, Prokofieff's Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite sit alongside American modern classics including Bernstein's West Side Story and Copland's Billy The Kid. Works by Ginastera and Piazzolla add a South American flavour, whilst pieces by Bartok, Britten, Quilter, Strauss, Whelan and others reflect the rich diversity of European music for dance.

Contents:

• D. Argento: Valentino Dances: Tango
• B. Bartok: For Children: Reund Dance
• A. Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba
• L. Bernstein: West Side Story: The Dance at the Gymn
• A. Borodin: Prince Igot: Polovtsian Dance
• J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
• A. Copland: Billy the Kid: Mexican Dance
• A. Copland: Rodeo: Hoe Down
• L Delibes: Coppelia: Waltz
• L. Delibes: Sylvia: Pizzicati
• G. Finzi: Love's Labour's Lost: Dance
• I. Fine: Diversions for Orchestra (Red Queen's Gavotte
• A. Ginastera: Estancia: Danza del trigo
• A. Ginastera: Estancia: Idilio crepuscular
• E. Kats-Chernin: Wild Swans Suite: Eliza Aria
• A. Khachaturian: Gayaneh: Sabre Dance
• B. Martinu: Etudes & Polka, Book 1: Polka in D major
• J. Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld: Can-can
• A. Piazzolla: Vuelvo al sur
• S. Prokofieff: Cincerella: Waltz
• S. Prokofieff: Romeo and Juliet: Montagues and Dapulets
• R. Quilter: Three English Dances: 3 Allegro non troppo -R. Rodgers: Carousel: The Carousel Waltz
• D. Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 2: Second Waltz
• J. Strauss: The blue danube Waltz
• W. Szpilman: Mazurka
• P. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake: Scene
• P. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the sugar-plum fairy
• J. Weinberger: Schwander the Bagpiper
• B. Whelan: Riverdance: The Countess Cathleen