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. MacDowell (arr. M.J. Isaac): To A Wild Rose
Traditional (arr. A.R. Ranger): Country Gardens
E.J. Evans: Spanish Eyes
A. Pinard: Day Dreams
J.S. Bach (arr. H.R. Kent): Arioso from Cantata no. 156, Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe
H.L. Clarke: Artemis Polka
C. Bohm (arr. W.F. Kretschmer: Italian Romance
R. Schumann (arr. W. Lewis): The Two Grenadiars 'Die beiden Grenadiere' from Romanzen und Balladen, vol. II, op. 49
R. Wagner (transc. C.J. Roberts): Song To The Evening Star from the Opera Tannhäuser
P.I. Tchaikovsky (arr. P.X. Laube): Andante Cantabile from String Quartet no. 1 in D major, op. 11
C.M.v. Weber (arr. P.X. Laube): Romanza Appassionata
B. Tuthill: Phantasy Piece, op. 10, no. 2
G. Rossini (arr. H. Wannemacher): Inflammatus from Stabat Mater
J.G. Ropartz (arr. A. Shapiro): Andante et Allegro
R. Wagner (arr. T.M. Tobani): Elsa's Dream from the Opera Lohengrin
B. Godard (arr. C.J. Roberts): Berceuse 'Lullaby' from the Opera Jocelyn
W. Hutchinson: Sonatina
G. Bizet: Song of the Toreador from the Opera Carmen
F. Mendelssohm (transc. G.J. Trinkaus): Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream
L. Hässler (arr. P.X. Laube): Allegro Moderato from Concerto, op. 14
M. Samuel-Rosseau: Piece Concertante
H.A. Vandercook: The Wild Rose Polka
Ausgabe mit mp3-CD, CD includes MP3 files and PDF piano accompaniments