Piano
George Butterworth
19 Playford Dances CM105
£5.00
Butterworth’s original manuscripts are available to see here.
They feature ‘corrections’ and I thought at first that they were Butterworth’s own revisions. There is the occasional direction ‘thicken’ and some examples of ‘thickening’ (horrible word!), none of which I felt added to these delightful arrangements: quite the contrary. I have come to believe, though, that these are Cecil Sharp’s revisions, and I have stripped them out of my edition. It is curious that Cecil Sharp published his own versions, several of which owe rather a lot to Butterworth’s, using exactly the same transpositions.
see our Butterworth page for an example of his arrangements
Gary Higginson
Eight Pieces for Pianists Young at Heart, op. 178 CM127
£6.00
The Last Bird in the Cage - Frogs from the Pond - When Dinosaurs trod the Earth -
Over the Stepping Stones - Snake in the Grass - Wet Bank Holiday Blues -
Rock-it Science - Granny's Favourite Chair
These attractive and varied pieces were written between April and September 2014 and are of about Grade 3 standard.
See our Gary Higginson page for details and a preview
Christian Petzold
Suite in G minor for harpsichord CM126
£6.00
This lovely 7 movement suite (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourée, Passepied and Trio, Gigue and Menuet) is one of the few pieces of his to survive.
See our Petzold page for a preview
Clara Schumann
Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor (1845) CM110
£4.00
see our Clara Schumann page for a preview
For an arrangement for strings see our String Orchestra page