books on * piano solo repertoire *

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Hello pianophiles,

this is my very first posting here in this forum...
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On amazon.com I have just created a listmania of 30 books on piano repertoire. Since most books mix classical, standard repertoire with modern, non-standard repertoire i ordered the listing with the more upper entries being more useful for modern repertoire whereas the second half #18-28 deals with the classical pieces. Please let me know if my commented listmania was useful for you. If you have other useful descriptions/infos on those books, from your personal part, I will edit then the descriptions there, con mucho gusto. For example I am not so happy with my HUTCHESON, LOCKWOOD, GILLESPIE, or FRISKIN-descriptions, way too non-informative. When i had them in my hands I quickly put them aside thinking that there are better books on the market. But i bet that some of you have them on your bookshelf    

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piano solo (modern?) repertoire : A list by Leisure_Larry

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You wanna what I think is best?  For honest, serious discussion, Hutcheson's a fantastic book.  If you want something all-encompassing, it's Hinson.

Everything else is in between, but I really like Hutcheson.  Specialty books, like Alan Walker's Reflections on Liszt give more details on specific works.

Gordon is somewhere in between, covering more specifically, but also allowing himself such liberties as "value assessment."

I've read others, but these are the best of their kind, I think.