27 pieces on the lively side
Animations is a collection of pieces focusing on lively rhythms and sparkling, articulate music – not all of it at faster tempos. There are goblins and grasshoppers, gypsies and witches; Grieg and Goldschmidt co-exist with Horne and Hummel; there is entertaining and sometimes unfamiliar music by Scarlatti, Schumann and Chopin. There is dance music a plenty, as you would expect in an album devoted to movement, and as well as a waltz and a mazurka, there is a gigue by Reger and a galop by Casella.
Piano Moods is an exciting new piano series from Boosey & Hawkes. Each volume is devoted to a particular mood. The pieces chosen draw on Boosey & Hawkes' extensive collection of wonderful music as well as lesser-known gems from the past - some of them from surprising sources - and newly composed works.
Schumann: Gypsy Dance (from Drei Klavier-Sonaten für die Jugend op. 118 no. 3/iii) - Dorne: In seven (from Six Short Studies) - Mendelssohn: Song without words op. 102 no. 3 - Copland: The young pioneers - J. N. Hummel: Allegro (from Caprice op. 49) - Reger: Gigue (from Zehn kleine Vortragsstücke op. 44 no. 6) - Prokofieff: Procession of the grasshoppers (from Musiques d'enfants op. 65 no. 7) - C. Ph. E. Bach: Allegro assai (from Sonata Wq 55/II) - Schubert: Minuet no. 23 (from Zwanzig Menuette D 41) - Goldschmidt: Scherzo - Dunhill: A dulcimer tune - Kodály: Children's dance no. 11 - Tchaikovsky: The witch (from Album pour enfants op. 39 no. 20) - Davies: Piano piece no. 19 - Grieg: Tomorrow you will marry (from 19 Norske Fokeviser op. 66 no. 10) - D. Scarlatti: Sonate K 431 - Kullak: Playing in the fields op. 62 no. 4 - Benjamin: Haunted house - Schubert: Minuet no. 11 (from Zwanzig Menuette D 41) - Quilter: Goblins (from Country Pieces op. 27 no. 2) - Casella: Galop final (from Children's Pieces) - Heller: Study op. 47 no. 11 - Hofmann: 'Hungarian' (from Stimmungsbilder op. 88 no. 4) - Bartók: Winter solstice song (from Gyermekeknek (For Children)) - Mozart: Allegro (from Piano sonata K 282) - van Wilm: Butterfly op. 235 no. 2 - Couperin: Air in the Polish style (aus Ordre XX)
