Festival Classics is a progressively graded collection of classic solos with piano accompaniment. The book contains a fine mix of transcriptions of familiar classics along with solos written specifically for the instrument. Many of the pieces in this collection are on state contest/festival required music lists and cover performance levels from grade 2 through 5. There is a wide variety of music from all style periods and by some of the greatest composers of all time. As an added bonus there is an included data CD that contains MP3 audio files of the piano accompaniments to make praticing more fun. The data CD also includes all of the piano accompaniment parts for allof the pieces in the collection as printable PDF files.
E. Edelson: Chant
E.H. Lemare (arr. Q.E. Maganini): Andantino
M.J. Isaac: Midsummer Morning
J. Offenbach: Barcarolle from the Opera Tales of Hoffman
H.M. Stuart: Danzetta
F. Kuhlau: Menuett
J.J. Quantz: Arioso and Presto
J.H. Bové: Praeludium (Based on a Prelude by J.S. Bach)
W.A. Mozart (arr. T. Böhm, ed. E. Medicus): Andante in C, K. 315
W.A. Mozart (arr. M.J. Isaac): Andante from Piano Sonata no. 16 in C major, K. 545
J.S. Bach (arr. W. Barge, ed. Q.E. Maganini): Polonaise and Badinerie from Orchestra Suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
F. Chopin (transc. P. Taffanel): Valse, op. 64, no. 1 "Minute"
G.F. Handel: Sonata in G minor, HWV 360 (op. 1, no. 2)
E. Pessard: Andalouse, op. 20
P.I. Tachikovsky (arr. W. Popp, ed. Q.E. Maganini): Danse des mirlitons from the Ballet The Nutcracker, op. 71
R. Drigo (arr. V. Sofronow): Serenade from the Ballet Les millions d'Arlequin
J.H. Bové: Impromptu-Caprice
J. Sibelius: Nocturne
Ausgabe mit mp3-CD, CD includes MP3 files and PDF piano accompaniments