The Chester Piano Anthology

The Chester Piano Anthology presents 39 popular works for piano featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond, with a preface by Martin James Bartlett.


Songlist:


- Ecce Ancilla Domini [Jehan Alain]

- Sarabande [Malcolm Arnold]

- Essay III For Piano [Samuel Barber]

- China Gates [John Adams]

- Romanian Folk Dances, VI. Fast Dance [Béla Bartók]

- Two Turtle-Doves (No. 2 from Partridge Pie) [Richard Rodney]

- Excursions, I. Vivo [Richard Rodney]

- Prelude No. 5 (from Six Preludes, Op. 23) [Lennox Berkeley]

- Interlude No. 2 (from Two Interludes For Piano) [Arthur Bliss]

- Spanish Dance (No. 6 from Bagatelles Diverses) [Brian Chapple]

- Sub Tuam Protectionem (from Two Piano Pieces) [Peter Maxwell Davies]

- Staccato Beans (No. 2 from Eight Memories In Watercolor) [Tan Dun]

- Trois Préludes, I. D’ombre Et De Silence [Henri Dutilleux]

- Sonatina, II. Allegro [Edward Elgar]

- Danse Du Meunier (from The Three-Cornered Hat) [Manuel De Falla]

- Etude No. 14 [Philip Glass]

- An Album For My Friends, II. Adam’s Allemande [Edward Gregson]

- Notturno Alla Italiana (No. 1 from Pièces D’amour) [Reynaldo Hahn]

- Sonatina 1947, II. Andantino [Hans Werner Henze]

- Jig (1932) [Gustav Holst]

- Puck (No. 3 from Lyric Pieces, Op. 71) [Edvard Grieg]

- Le Cortège De Balkis (No. 10 from Histoires) [Jacques Ibert]

- Suite For Piano, I. Moderate [Dello Joio]

- Prélude En Forme De Scherzo [Bohuslav Martinů]

- Petites Esquisses D’oiseaux, II. Le Merle Noir [Olivier Messiaen]

- Snowfall In Winter (Study No. 9 ’Hommage À Debussy’) [John Mccabe]

- Sonata No. 2, II. Léger [Darius Milhaud]

- Pajaro Triste [Federico Mompou]

- A Hudson Cycle [Nico Muhly]

- Nocturne No. 8 [Francis Poulenc]

- Novelette No. 1 In C Major [Francis Poulenc]

- Consolation (No. 5 from 13 Morceaux, Op. 76) [Jean Sibelius]

- Venus In 94 (No. 2 from The Heaven Ladder Book 7) [Terry Riley]

- Prelude [Kaija Saariaho]

- A Soldier’s Tale (L’histoire Du Soldat), III. Marche Royale [Igor Stravinsky]

- 6/11/98 [Joby Talbot]

- Three Piano Pieces, Op. 5, III. Calmo [Hugh Wood]

- Romance (from Sylvia) [Gabriel Yared]

- I’ve Turned The Page… [Judith Weir]