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Jacket Description/Back:
Beginning pianists will enjoy this collection of adagios: works played slowly. Timeless classics include the opening movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata and Pachelbel's "Canon" as well as pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and other legendary composers. Editor David Dutkanicz has provided fingerings, notes, and performance suggestions. Includes downloadable MP3s.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Sergei Rachmaninoff Adagio from Piano Concerto No. 2
Robert Schumann The Poor Orphan from Album for the Young
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 (Titan), Mvt. III
Johann Sebastian Bach Air on a G String from Orchestral Suite No. 3
George Frideric Handel Sarabande from Suite in D Minor
Erik Satie Gymnopédie No. 1
Antonin Dvorák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), Mvt. II (Largo)
Edvard Grieg Ase's Death from Peer Gynt
Johann Pachelbel Canon
Claude Debussy Prélude No. 10 from Préludes Book II
Sergei Rachmaninoff Bells of Moscow
Frédéric Chopin Funeral March, Op. 35, No. 2
Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra, Introduction (Sunrise)
Tomaso Albinoni Adagio
Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio Cantabile from Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique)
Franz Liszt Consolation No. 4
Johann Sebastian Bach Adagio from Concerto for Oboe
Béla Bartók Song from For Children (Vol. 1, No. 3)
Domenico Scarlatti Larghetto from Sonata in D Minor, K.34
George Frideric Handel Dead March from Saul
Antonio Vivaldi Before the Fire from The Four Seasons
Domenico Cimarosa Sonata No. 4
Joachim Raff Romance, Op. 2, No. 2
Gaetano Donizetti Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor
Camille Saint-Saëns Swan from The Carnival of Animals
Daniel Gottlob Türk Arioso
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio from Viennese Sonatina No. 6
Gustav Lange Flower Song, Op. 39
Felix Mendelssohn Consolation from Songs Without Words (Book II, No. 3)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Morning Prayer from Children's Album (Op. 39, No. 1)
Carl Maria von Weber Prayer from The Hunter
Frédéric Chopin Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4
Jules Massenet Angelus from Scènes pittoresques
Felix Mendelssohn Adagio from Songs Without Words (Book IV, No. 4)
Theodor Michaelis At Night from The Blacksmith in the Woods
Jules Massenet Melodie
Ludwig van Beethoven "Moonlight" Sonata from Piano Sonata No. 14, Mvt. I
Publisher Marketing:
Timeless classics include the opening movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata and Pachelbel's "Canon" as well as pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and other legendary composers. Editor David Dutkanicz has provided fingerings, notes, and performance suggestions. Includes downloadable MP3s.
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