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
Five Short Pieces, Op.4 - III. Moderato
Four Piano Studies, Op.82 - IV. Presto leggiero
Improvisation on a theme by Manuel de Falla
Mazurka, Op.101/2
Piano Sonata, Op.20 - II. Presto
Polka, Op.5/1a
Six Preludes, Op.23 - III. Allegro moderato and VI. Andante