I WANNA DIE EASY

I WANNA DIE EASY

Svend Erik Tarp: Snap-Shots Op.45 (7 Easy Pieces)

Set of seven easy pieces for Piano.

Niels Viggo Bentzon: 22 Easy To Intermediate Piano Pieces

22 Easy To Intermediate Piano Pieces by Niels Viggo Bentzon (1989).

Bent Lorentzen: Five Easy Piano Pieces

A fantastic volume of Five Easy Piano Pieces by Bent Lorentzen. Composed on the Ocassion of the NMPU Congress, in Aarhus, in 1971. Much of the music has been notated graphically, and the player is required to hold down block chords of black and white keys, which make this set far from easy and will be an enjoyable challenge for experienced Pianists.

9 Easy Pieces For Strings

Jörgen Jersild: Duo Concertante (Piano Duet)

18 very easy pieces for teacher and pupil.

Bent Lorentzen: Nine Easy Pieces For Strings

Svend Erik Tarp: Mosaic Op.31 (10 Easy Pieces)

Friedrich Burgmuller: 25 Easy Studies For Piano Op.100

Twenty-five short studies for piano.

Ludvig Schytte: 25 Easy Studies For Piano Op.160

Ludwig Schytte (1848-1909) was a Danish composer and pianist, who spent most of his life living and working in Germany and Austria. Born in Jutland, he studied with Franz Liszt before settling in Vienna, where he taught for twenty years. He wrote around 175 works with opus numbers, most of which were published in his lifetime, including two operas and a Piano concerto. Most of his compositions were shorter works for the Piano, and many of his pedagogical studies are still used today. 25 Studies For Piano (25 Leichte Etuden Fur Pianoforte; Op. 160) was published in 1908, making it one of the composer’s last works. It has remained popular with Piano teachers and students for over a century.

Svend Erik Tarp: Six Easy Pieces For Piano Op.55a

Danish composer Erik Tarp's piano music is refreshing and compelling in any programme.

M.J. Gebauer: 12 Easy Duets For Two Violins Op.10

Bent Lorentzen: Saturnus (The Planets)

The Planets is cast as a single unit, consisting of seven movements, varying greatly in character, each of which describes a planet or a celestial body. Saturn, the symbol of pleasure, celebration and Christmas. The joyful celebrations of the Romans and the festivities of Christmas are easy to distinguish behind playful Latin rhythms and jubilant sounds.

Paul Bentley: A Handmaid's Diary

This fabulous book tells the story of how Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale, was adapted for, and became an Opera. Paul Bentley, who also wrote the opera's Libretto, has written a wonderful, absorbing and insightful book. From the first phone call to the premiere party, and all the creative processes in between, Bentley explores the procedures and methods of setting a novel to Operatic music, as well as anecdotal references and examples. It is not limited merely to Opera buffs, but is delightfully witty and easy-going so suitable for any theatre or music lover.

Carl Nielsen: Chaconne Op.32

Carl Nielsen is doubtlessly one of Denmark?s most important and popular composers. This is no more evident than in his 1916 work for Piano Solo, Chaconne Op.32, which followed a seventeen-year gap in his compositions for that instrument. It is a decidedly dynamic work, in constant motion from the moment the simple opening theme begins through the crescendo and to the winding down and end of this piece. The twenty variations that form the core of this piece themselves have a varied range, sometimes comparatively easy, showing Bach?s influence, other times he uses highly complex contrasts. This is a fine example of Nielsen?s work and uses mood and texture to great effect making it ideal for concert or recital performance whilst the variations make it a clever training manual.

3 Epigrammer, Kopi

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 3 EPIGRAMS'3 Epigrams' (1963) came into existence following my piece for chamber orchestra 'Chronos' (1962). My purpose with these pieces (and others of the same period) was to explore the sound experiences of serialism in space and time but without using the original and fundamental substance of serialism - the tone row. The chromatic space was constituted by four identical and complementary tone columns (established by transposition). The time was divided into 25 different sizes, plasticly conceived and graphically notated. These distances were then divided in 25 new distances in the same proportions etc ... into smaller and smaller durations completely hierarchally carried through. This time division, 'rhythm', de-termines the gradual or sudden shifts from one tone column to another.The 3 Epigrams became a little play of my own with this material and the work is, therefore, quite clear to read and easy to play - a kind of bagatelle, really.I am now afraid that a classic situation is emerging: If this programme note is any longer it will take more time to read this than it will take to play the three pieces.Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen