Classical Tear-Jerkers

Description

The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 emotive pieces of classical music, designed to tug at the heart-strings, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include “Un bel di vedremo” from Madama Butterfly by Puccini and Dido's Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's colour linocut Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a pullout page provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible.

Contents:
• Menuet (HWV 434) (by George Frideric Handel)
• Dolly's Funeral (from Children's Album Op.39, No.8) (by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
• Moonlight Sonata (Op.27, No.2) (by Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Sonata in D minor (K32, L423) (by Domenico Scarlatti)
• Lamentation for a Lost Life (by Max Richter)
• A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder (by Jóhann Jóhannsson)
• A Collective Destiny (by Luke Howard)
• Pavane pour une infante défunte (by Maurice Ravel)
• Adagietto (from Symphony No. 5 ) (by Gustav Mahler)
• Prelude in E minor (Op.28, No.4) (by Frederic Chopin)
• Sicilienne (by Maria Theresia von Paradis)
• Glantaf (by Morfydd Llwyn Owen)
• When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas) (by Henry Purcell)
• Un bel dì, vedremo (from Madama Butterfly) (by Giacomo Puccini)
• Ave Maria (by Franz Schubert)
• Come, Sweet Death (BWV 478) (by Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Intermezzo (from Cavalleria Rusticana) (by Pietro Mascagni)
• Lacrimosa (from Requiem Mass in D minor K626) (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Sospiri (by Edward Elgar)
• Ständchen in D minor (After Schubert) (by Franz Liszt (by )