Short Romantic Pieces for Piano | Book 1 (Grades 1-2)

Contents:

• The Bells: No. 4 from ‘Esquisses’, Op. 63 (Alkan)
• Study in A minor, Op. 101 No. 93 (Beyer)
• Going to Sleep, Op. 31 No. 2 (Bishkoff)
• A Romp, Op. 46 No. 32 (Breslauer)
• Study in D, Op. 777 No. 15 (Czerny)
• Lesson in C, Op. 125 No. 6 (Diabelli)
• Night in the Woods, Op. 36 No. 32 (Gedike)
• Sad Song, Op. 36 No. 39 (Gedike)
• Polka in D minor (Glinka)
• Study in D, Op. 187 No. 51 (Gurlitt)
• Undismayed: No. 7 from ‘The Friend of the Family’, Op. 197 (Gurlitt)
• Melody in C, Op. 44 No. 1 (Hasse)
• Country Dance (Hünten)
• Little Song: from 30 Pieces for Children, Op. 27, No. 1 (Kabalevsky)
• Waltz in D minor, Op. 39 No. 13 (Kabalevsky)
• Prelude in A minor, Op. 65 No. 2 (Kirchner)
• A Fairy Story (There was once a princess . . .): No. 1 from ‘Kinderleben’ (Youthful Days), Op. 62 (Kullak)
• A Slight Misunderstanding (Ladukhin)
• Study in A, Op. 17 No. 7 (Le Couppey)
• Invention in F sharp minor (Lyapunov)
• A Miniature, Op. 4 No. 3 (Maikapar)
• Children’s March, Op. 31 No. 1 (Merkel)
• Allegretto: No. 2 from ‘Piano Music for Big and Small’, Op. 53 (Nielsen)
• ‘Marziale’, No. 7 from Piano Music for Young and Old, Op. 53 (Nielsen)
• Prelude: Serenade in C, Op. 183 No. 1, 1st movement (Carl Reinecke)
• Sonatina in A minor, Op. 127A No. 6: 2nd movement, Ein Marchen (A Fairy Tale) (Reinecke)
• Dance of the Dragonflies, Op. 76 No. 7 (Rohde)
• Down in the Dumps: No. 5 from ‘For the Little Ones’ (Sandré)
• To My Little Friends, from ‘For the Little Ones’ (Sandré)
• German Dance in A, D. 972/3 (Schubert)
• Grandmother’s Song, Op. 27 No. 4 (Volkmann)
• Allegro in c, from ‘Piano Method for Children’ (Wohlfahrt)
• Waltz in C, from ‘Piano Method for Children’ (Wohlfahrt)
• All Forlorn: No. 1 from ‘Odd Moments’ (Alwyn)
• Swaying Branches: No. 11 from ‘First Year Pieces’ (Dunhill)
• Waltz in F: No. 2 from ‘12 Easy Pieces’ (Dyson)
• Der kleine Trompeter (The Little Trumpeter), Op. 32 No. 4 (Fuchs)
• Herzeleid (Heartache), Op. 32 No. 2 (Fuchs)
• Mazurka in B minor, Op. 98 No. 13 (Grechaninov)
• Scabious, Op. 138 No. 14 (Heller)
• Melodie, Op. 77 No. 5 (Hofmann)
• Vivace in A minor, Op. 55 No. 23 (Kirchner)
• Catch-me-if-you-can (Haschemann) (Schumann)
• Hide-and-Seek (Gukkuk in Versteck) (Schumann)
• Gavotte in G: No. 1 from ‘Six Sketches’ (Stanford)
• Scherzo in F: No. 2 from ‘Six Sketches’ (Stanford)
• Old French Song, No. 16 from Album for the Young, Op. 39 (Tchaikovsky)

ABRSM’s Short Romantic Pieces for Piano is a five-volume graded anthology. As well as featuring the great German composers from the period, this collection includes works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Moszkowski, Glazunov, Albéniz, Granados, Delius and many others.