THE FABER MUSIC PIANO ANTHOLOGY

Best-loved original repertoire for solo piano

£21.99

If you’re looking for a special gift for a pianist – perhaps to encourage a young learner or to celebrate their exam successes – few publications can match The Faber Music Piano Anthology for beauty, scope and, not least, value.

This volume is a gift for life: while most collections focus on a particular repertoire or level of difficulty, this new 190-page anthology represents keyboard music from the 16th to the late 20th centuries and will be a constant companion for pianists as they progress from about Grade 2 standard all the way up to Grade 8.

The pieces are arranged in order of increasing difficulty, not chronologically, so players are immersed in the full range of styles from the start. Works by famous names – Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Satie – are interspersed with contributions that will be new to many of us: ‘The Fall of the Leafe’ by Martin Peerson from the 17th-century Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; the ‘Snuffbox Waltz’ by 19th-century Russian opera composer Alexander Dargomyzhsky; ‘Honey; Humoresque’ by 20th-century Canadian Robert Nathaniel Dett; and many more.

But what makes this collection particularly suitable as a gift is its luxurious presentation: the music is printed on thick, high-quality paper, a ribbon bookmark is included, and the handsome hardback cover reproduces Cyril Edward Power’s 1935 linocut ‘The Concerto’.

A fine volume for any piano and any pianist!

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