A totally new arrangement, in two volumes, for piano duet of the complete orchestral ballet score. Tchaikovsky’s amazing melodic and harmonic invention is heard with clarity in this skillful four hand arrangement. Great fun to play and a very welcome addition to the piano duet repertoire. Printed in landscape format with spiral binding.
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A totally new arrangement, in two volumes, of the complete orchestral ballet score. Tchaikovsky’s amazing melodic and harmonic invention is heard with clarity in this skillful four hand arrangement. Great fun to play and a very welcome addition to the piano duet repertoire. Printed in landscape format with spiral binding.
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A set of contrasted pieces for children of all ages, published to great acclaim by Gonzaga Music in 2002.
Ice-cream van (no. 11 of Scrap-book) was chosen by the Associated Board as a Grade 3 exam piece in their 2007-8 syllabus.
Along with the composer’s Ten Terrible Tunes GZ 058, Scrap-book was a set work performed at the 2012 Contemporary Keyboard Weekend at the Conservatoire Frédéric Chopin, Paris
“I thoroughly enjoyed looking through Scrap–book. What a lovely way to introduce the young to the delights of 20th century music! Giles Swayne’s pieces are not only witty and amusing – they teach aspiring musicians to characterise. The player is invited to play roles and to identify with people, objects and situations.
A publication seems long overdue.”
Alfred Brendel
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12 pieces for children of all ages. Each piece is a musical picture inspired by postage stamps (and a pillar box) from various countries around the world. Commissioned by Gonzaga Music to celebrate the company’s formation in 2002. First performed by Giles Swayne on 9th November 2003, in a recital at Abbey Road Concerts, London.
Stamp–album was chosen as a set book by the 2006 Glasgow Music Festival.
Along with the composer’s Vegetable Fiesta GZ 054, Stamp-Album was a set work performed at the 2012 Contemporary Keyboard Weekend at the Conservatoire Frédéric Chopin, Paris
“Hugely rewarding and original”
Piano Professional
“Truly original. . . . highly recommended.”
Piano
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In three eminently playable movements: a zappy Allegro, a haunting Arioso, and a refreshingly exuberant Vivace. First performed on 19th June 1980 by John Blood in a recital for the British Music Society at Chelsea College, London.
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“This is my first sighting of the Gonzaga Teaching Series, a collection whose ‘teaching as entertainment’ philosophy is underlined by companion titles advertised on the back cover (Ten Terrible Tunes, Vegetable Fiesta, and so on, reviewed in recent issues of MT). This Sonatina by John Blood (series co–composer with Giles Swayne) is equally diverting, being succinct (its three movements take just five–and–a–half minutes) and witty, testing out your interpretative skills in an idiom between, say, Kabalevsky and the Hindemith of the second sonata.. Pitched at Grades 6–7, it is effectively written and easier than it sounds (its stretches of a tenth may be circumvented) – with bitonal moments ready to tease any nervous grannies within earshot. It has waited a long time for publication since its premiere (1980), and I highly recommend it.”
Music Teacher
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