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. Elgar (arr. H.E. Akers): Pomp and Circumstance, excerpt from Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1, op. 39, no. 1
E.F. Goldman: Evening Song
E. MacDowell (arr. M.J. Isaac): To a Wild Rose
G.F. McKay: Concert Solo for Young Players
Traditional (arr. A.R. Ranger): Country Gardens
G.F. Handel (transc. L. Klemcke): Largo from the Opera Xerxes
G. Bizet (arr. H. Gee): Intermezzo from L'Arlésienne Suite no. 2
N. Rimsky-Korsakoff (transc. J. Gurewich): Song of India, Chanson Indoue, from the Opera Sadko
E. Chenette: Sax-Sweetness
C. Bohm (arr. W.F. Kretschmer): Italian Romance
R. Wagner (transc. C.J. Roberts): Song to the Evening Star from the Opera Tannhäuser
F. Kreisler (transc. C. Leeson): Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven
M. Ravel (arr. H. Bettoney): Pavane pour une infante défunte
W.A. Mozart: Adagio from Clarinet Concerto, K. 622
B. Godard (arr. B. Conklin): Canzonetta from Concerto romantique, op. 35
E. Koehler (arr. B. Conklin): Papillon, op. 30, no. 4
G. Braga (transc. B. Verceecken): Angel's Serenade
F. Kreisler (arr. J. Gurewich): Liebesleid
L.A. Kranz (arr. J. Gurewich): Tourbillon from Suite for Flute and Piano
K. Douse: Cynthia
J. Donjon (arr. E. Medicus): Invocation, Morceau pour Élévation
Ausgabe mit mp3-CD, CD includes MP3 files and PDF piano accompaniments