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Topic: 50 Greats for the Piano  (Read 6671 times)

Offline gazza1286

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50 Greats for the Piano
on: November 20, 2007, 10:01:38 PM
Hi

My son has  Yamaha Clavinova CLP280PM and is studying at grade 8. He has a wide and varied repetoire. He plays the Yamaha '50 greats for the piano' (which came with the keyboard) as a means to relax and to improve his sight reading.

Can someone recommend a bound publication which would be in a similar vein to this.......

....maybe a '50 More Greats for the Piano'???? It's something to give him for Christmas Something he can open up and play cover to cover without searching through his other sheet music.

Many thanks

Offline retrouvailles

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 10:05:14 PM
Something like this would work really well:

https://www.amazon.com/Early-Advanced-Classics-Moderns-Millions/dp/0825640474

I have played these in the past, mainly for sightreading purposes. They offer many books with many skill levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced, etc) and with different types of pieces from many composers, including some rather obscure ones.

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 10:27:19 PM
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Offline retrouvailles

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #3 on: November 20, 2007, 10:35:59 PM
Start with something easy, like English Country Tunes, and work your way up from there.

Ignore that.

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #4 on: November 20, 2007, 10:39:30 PM
Start with Il Mio Primo Liszt and work up from that ;).
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #5 on: November 20, 2007, 11:40:19 PM
Look at the sonatas of Scarlatti and Soler, along with Bartok's Mikrokosmos.

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #6 on: November 21, 2007, 06:10:37 PM
Thanks guys. Some great ideas - I'm sure I'll find something suitable!

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #7 on: November 21, 2007, 07:17:37 PM
Why don't you get him a real piano for Christmas?   ;)

Sorry if that sounds grinch-like, but really, you can only get just so far on a Clavinova.

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Re: 50 Greats for the Piano
Reply #8 on: November 21, 2007, 09:33:26 PM
I wonder if the boy has a teacher, or if he is expected to learn the pieces just out of books?  ::)
If it doesn't work - try something different!
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