The Essential Collection: Anthology Gold

Chester Music’s best-selling series, The Essential Collection Gold, features works by some of the most famous composers - ranging from Henry Purcell to Scott Joplin – with each album in the series highlighting a particular composer or a certain genre.


This anthology collection presents a selection of the finest music from the series, all of which are arranged for intermediate solo Piano. As always the digital edition contains both sheet music and full audio tracks demonstrating how each piece should be performed.


The tracks included in this anthology are: 


- Aria (from the ‘Goldberg’ Variations) [Bach] 

- Allegro in F Major [Haydn] 

- The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba (from ‘Solomon’) [Handel] 

- Après Un Rêve, Op.7, No.1 [Fauré] 

- Arabesque No.1 (from ‘Two Arabesques’) [Debussy]

- Ave Maria (from the ‘Goldberg’ Variations) [Schubert] 

- Ballet Music (from ‘Rosamunde’) [Schubert] 

- The Barber Of Seville (Overture) (from ‘The Barber Of Seville’) [Rossini] 

- (On The Beautiful) Blue Danube, Op.314 [Strauss] 

- Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G (1st movement: Allegro) [Bach] 

- Cantabile In Bb Major [Chopin] 

- Chanson de matin, Op.15, No.2 [Elgar] 

- Chiarina (from ‘Carnaval’, Op.9) [Schumann] 

- Clair De Lune (from ‘Suite Bergamasque’) [Debussy] 

- Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from ‘Orfeo’) [Gluck]

- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (K525 1st Movement Theme) [Mozart] 

- Emperor Waltz, Op.437 [Strauss] 

- Enigma Variations, Op.36, Theme [Elgar]

- The Entertainer (A Ragtime Two-Step) [Joplin]

- Fingal’s Cave Overture ‘Hebrides’ [Mendelssohn] 

- Flower Duet (from ‘Lakmé’) [Delibes] 

- The Four Seasons: Autumn (3rd Movement) [Vivaldi] 

- The Four Seasons: Winter (2nd Movement) [Vivaldi] 

- Gloria (from ‘Gloria’) [Vivaldi] 

- Habañera: L’amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle (from ‘Carmen’) [Bizet]

- The Happy Farmer (from ‘Album For The Young’, Op.68) [Schumann]

- The Heavens Are Telling The Glory Of God (from ‘The Creation’) [Haydn] 

- Hungarian Dance No.5 In F Minor [Brahms] 

- Impromptu No.2 in Ab Major (excerpt), Op.142 [Schubert] 

- I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (from ‘Messiah’) [Handel] 

- June: Barcarolle (from ‘The Seasons’ Op.37, No.6) [Tchaikovsky] 

- La Donna È Mobile (from ‘Rigoletto’) [Verdi] 

- Lascia Ch’io Pianga (from ‘Rinaldo’) [Handel] 

- Little Study (from ‘Album For The Young’, Op.68) [Schumann] 

- Lullaby, Op.49, No.4 [Brahms] 

- Maple Leaf Rag [Joplin] 

- March From ‘The Nutcracker’ Op.71 [Tchaikovsky] 

- Marche Militaire [Schubert] 

- Meditation (from ‘Thaïs’) [Massenet] 

- Nimrod (from ‘Enigma Variations’, Op.36) [Elgar] 

- O For The Wings Of A Dove (from ‘Hear My Prayer–Psalm 55’) [Mendelssohn] 

- Pavane, Op.50 [Fauré] 

- Le Petit Negre [Debussy] 

- Piano Concerto No.2 1st Movement [Rachmaninoff] 

- Piano Sonata in C Major (K545 Allegro) [Mozart] 

- Pizzicato Polka, Op.449 [Strauss] 

- Polonaise in A major ‘Militaire’, Op.40, No.1 [Chopin]

- The Ride of the Valkyries (from ‘Die Walküre’) [Wagner] 

- Rondo in A Major, WoO 49 [Beethoven] 

- Preludes, Op.23, X. Largo [Rachmaninoff] 

- Scene From Swan Lake, Op.20, No.1 [Tchaikovsky] 

- Sonata in G major, Op.49, No.2, 1st Movement [Beethoven] 

- Song Without Words, Op.17, No.1 [Fauré]

- String Quartet in F major, ‘Serenade’, Op.3, No.5 (2nd movement) [Haydn] 

- Symphony No.1 ‘Titan’, 4th movement: Stürmisch bewegt [Mahler]

- Symphony No.3: in F Major, 2nd Movement: Andante [Brahms] 

- Symphony No.5: 1st movement: Allegro con brio [Beethoven] 

- Symphony No.5, 4th movement: Adagietto [Mahler] 

- Symphony No.9 ‘From The New World’, 2nd movement: Largo [Dvořák] 

- Two-part Invention No.4 In D Minor [Bach] 

- Valse in Db Major ‘Minute Waltz’, Op.64, No.1 [Chopin] 

- Violin Concerto In E Minor, 2nd Movement: Andante [Mendelssohn] 

- Vocalise (No.14 from ‘Fourteen Songs’, Op.34) [Rachmaninoff] 

- Voi, Che Sapete (from ‘The Marriage of Figaro’) [Mozart] 

- Warum? (Why?) (from ‘Fantasy Pieces’, Op.12) [Schumann] 

- When I Am Laid In Earth (from ‘Dido And Aeneas’) [Purcell] 

- The Young Prince and the Young Princess from ‘Sheherazade’ [Rimsky-Korsakov]