ABRSM – A Keyboard Anthology, Second Series, Book II (Grades 3 & 4)

A collection of pieces which have been set for ABRSM’s piano exams over the years. Available in three series, each containing five graded volumes and reflecting the wide variety of pieces on the syllabuses. The series concentrate on the baroque and romantic sections of the syllabus.

Content:

• A Masque, from ‘Anne Cromwell’s Virginal Book’ [Anon.]
• Bagatelle in F, Op. 33 No. 3 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
• Divertimento in C, Hob. XIV/41: 2nd movement, Menuetto and Trio [Joseph Haydn]
• Study in D, No. 12 from 25 Studies, Op. 47 [Stephen Heller]
• Study in G, Op. 17 No. 24 [Felix le Couppey / Philip Harper]
• Allegro in F, K. 15a, from ‘London Notebook’ [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• Sonata No. 7 in E: Allegro [Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]
• Menuet in A minor, from ‘Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin’ [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
• Partita in G minor: 3rd movement, Bourrée [Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel]
• Partita in G from ‘Der getreue Music-Meister’: 2nd movement, Aria [Georg Philipp Telemann]
• Les Pifferari (The Bagpipers), Impromptu [Charles-François Gounod]
• Waltz in E minor, Op. 38 No. 7 [Edvard Grieg]
• Aria in G, from Suite No. 8 in G (1727 coll.), HWV 441 [George Frideric Handel]
• Gigue in D: No. 40 from ‘Klavierschule’ [Johann Nepomuk Hummel]
• Gavote in G (from Suite No. 6) [Richard Jones]
• Prayer, Op. 25 No. 5 [Génari Karganov]
• Remembrance (Erinnerung), Op. 68 No. 28 [Robert Schumann]
• La nouvelle poupée (The new doll), Op. 39 No. 6 (published as No. 9) [Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky]
• Invention No. 1 in C, BWV 772 [Johann Sebastian Bach]