Great Masterworks

(World’s Greatest Classical Music). Features 50 selections from symphonies, ballets, oratorios & other concert works by 29 of the greatest composers, transcribed for intermediate to advanced piano solo. Includes: Air on the G String (Bach) * Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (Beethoven) * Pizzicato Polka (Delibes) * Pavane (Faure) * Ave Maria (Gounod) * Hallelujah from Messiah (Handel) * Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) * Sheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) * Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky) * more.

Contents: BACH: Air on the G String • Quia respexit (from Magnificat) • Sheep may safely graze (from Cantata 208) • BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (“Eroica”), 1st mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 7 in A Major, 1st mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 4th mvt. excerpt (“Ode to Joy”) • Violin Concerto in D Major, 1st mvt. excerpt • Berlioz: March to the Scaffold(from Symphonie Fantastique) • Witches’ Sabbath (from Symphonie Fantastique) • Borodin: Polovetzian Dances, First Theme • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, 1st mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 3 in F Major, 3rd mvt. excerpt • Delibes: Pizzicato Polka (from Sylvia) • Dvorák: Slavonic Dance • Fauré: Pavane, excerpt • Pie Jesu (from Requiem) • Gounod: Ave Maria (based on Prelude in C Major by J.S. Bach) • Grieg: Morning (from Peer Gynt) • Slovejg’s Song (from Peer Gynt) • Handel: Allegro maestoso (from Water Music) • Hallelujah (from Messiah) • The Trumpet Shall Sound (from Messiah) • Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major (“Surprise”), 2nd mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 101 in D Major (“The Clock”), 3rd mvt. excerpt • Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major (“Titan”), 3rd mvt. opening theme • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, overture themes • Symphony No. 4 in A Major (“Italian”), 1st mvt. excerpt • Mozart: Alleluia (from Exsultate Jubilate) • Eine kleine Nachtmusik, 1st mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 29 in A Major, 1st mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 35 in D Major (“Haffner”), 1st mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, 1st mvt. excerpt • Offenbach: Can-Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld) • Purcell: Rondeau (from Abdelazer) • Rondeau (from Abdelazer) • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, 1st mvt. excerpt • Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, 3rd mvt. excerpt • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade (“The Young Prince and Young Princess”) • Sadko (Song of India) • Saint-Saëns: Aquarium (from Carnival of the Animals) • Schubert: Serenade (Ständchan) • Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (“Unfinished”), 1st mvt. excerpt • Schumann: Widmung (Devotion) • Strauss, Jr.: Emperor Waltz • Vienna Life • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, 1st mvt. excerpt • Romeo and Juliet, “Love Theme” • Sleeping Beauty Waltz (from Sleeping Beauty) • Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker) • Vivaldi: Spring (from The Four Seasons), 1st mvt. excerpt • Autumn (from The Four Seasons), 3rd mvt except