Description

The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the English composer Lennox Berkeley . With notes by Michael Berkeley and Peter Dickinson. Writing in the European Piano Teachers Association Journal, Angela Fogg calls Composer Portraits “a well thought-out and well presented series of books offering fantastic repertoire for students in the later grades. I cannot recommend them enough!”

Contents

1. Five Short Pieces, Op.4 – III. Moderato
2. Four Piano Studies, Op.82 – IV. Presto leggiero
3. Improvisation on a theme by Manuel de Falla
4. Mazurka, Op.101/2
5. Piano Sonata, Op.20 – II. Presto
6. Polka, Op.5/1a
7. Six Preludes, Op.23 – III. Allegro moderato and VI. Andante
8. Three Impromptus, Op.7 – I. Moderato
9. Three Pieces For Piano, Op.2 – II. Berceuse