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The United States Armed Forces are divided into five branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. This collection contains the official songs of these branches, as well as a spe...

Morton Gould composed brilliantly for orchestra, Broadway, film, television, ballet and piano. He became nationally recognized through his work in radio, where he introduced many of his own compositio...

Presumably inspired by Charles Sainte-Beuve's collection of poems, this set of six pieces provides a wonderful introduction to Liszt's melodic invention, mood evocation and harmonic language. The most...

Eight contrasing pieces with descriptive titles comprise the 'Fantasy Pieces', op. 12. Although the eight pieces form a homogeneous whole, each can be played individually without loss of effect. They...

Felix Mendelssohn's Allegro brillant, Op. 92, for one piano, four hands, was written in 1841 and dedicated to Clara Schumann. The expressive Andante theme alternates between the Secondo and Primo, seg...

Carnaval is characteristic of Schumann's highly individual youthful romanticism and requires musical maturity for performance. Written for advanced pianists, it is a series of glimpses enveloped in th...

Cloches d'Adieu, et un sourire... ('Bells of Farewell, and a Smile...')This unpretentious little piece was written at the request of the German Radio, Deutschlandfunk, in memory of Olivier Messiaen.It...

La Mandragore ('The Mandrake')'Under the gallows grows the mandrake. At midnight, when the moon is full, it is picked beneath the hanged man who swings...'The mandrake: a Mediterranean plant used in w...

Comme un oeil... carries the influence of Messiaen - the piece was written for the entrance exam of the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, therefore before my studies with Messiaen. An allusi...

Les Travaux et les Jours is connected in a certain way to Territoires de l'Oubli, but listening to the resonances of the piano in a different manner. The work also looks to resolve a formal problem: 9...

Estuaire was an attempt at appropriating the serial aesthetic for my own benefit - I was trying to make it say something that it couldn't say: coloured images, gestures, moving shapes. The enterprise...

A beautifully shaped melody sings soulfully throughout this tender-hearted piece, giving students a chance to learn the value of truly expressive music making.

Written for piano, this piece renews with the fantastic essence of the Lied. The Lied, as Marcel Beaufils wrote, 'attests to an essential apprehension which is felt by an entire Germanic country, perh...

Recording:1 CD Métier (MSV 28524)Marilyn Nonken: Voix voiléesMarilyn Nonken (piano)

The Level 5 Performance Book from the Faber Piano Adventures series provides a collection of effective pieces to be used in conjunction with the Lesson Book. However, teachers will find that the creat...

The Faber Piano Adventures Level 5 - Popular Repertoire Book combines popular hits with imaginative 'Activity Pages' that explore rhythm, note reading and theory fundamentals.