My Favorite Classics

A progressive repertoire series designed to motivate students while allowing them to progress evenly and smoothly from the earliest classics toward intermediate literature. These pieces are from the standard classical literature, chosen to appeal both to teacher and student. Each volume comes with a corresponding CD. PIanist Kim O'Reilly Newman holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois. She has performed throughout North America and Europe with the Hambro Quartet of Pianos and was an editor and recording pianist for Alfred Music. Kim is a brain tumor survivor and now specializes in performing music for the left hand.

Contains a variety of favorite pieces for early-intermediate through late-intermediate students from the four stylistic periods of piano repertoire, with skillfully composed second keyboard parts for teacher/parent or more advanced student.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Raskolnikov, a helpless and desperate alumnus, wanders through the suburbs of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder with no regrets or regrets. He imagines himself as a great man, a Napoleon: acting with a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is haunted by the rising voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, an oppressed prostitute, can offer the chance for redemption.

Includes: Album Leaf * Für Elise * Ave Maria * The Beautiful Blue Danube * Largo * Reverie * Rondo, K. 498A * Voices of Spring * Sarabande (from the Fifth English Suite) and more.

This is a varied collection of original easy piano classics, covering the period from 1650 through the 20th century. Each of the 72 compositions has been carefully edited and presented in its original version. There is a broad spectrum of compositions in grades one through three. Included are many biographies and pictures of the composers.