The
second part of the listings of British piano music on the back of a piece of
piano music published by Augener’s. It is clear that many of these long forgotten
pieces are for teaching purposes. However, one or two works that I do know (or
have a copy of in my library) are anything but easy. For example, Alec Rowley is often seen as a
‘grades’ composer, however his Toccatas
are no cinch. Even Eric Thiman's New
Nursery Rhymes are full of places that can trip up the over confident tyro.
Robin Milford
Waltz
Thomas Baron Pitfield
Five
Short Pieces: Prelude, Dance-miniature, Bagatelle, Crooning, Merry-go-round.
The
Circle Suite: Bourree, Minuet, Pavan, Jig
Two
Little Dances in old style: Minuet & Gavotte
Freda Pointer
Country
Tunes -20 graded pieces
Leonard W. Reed
Two
Pieces: Pavanne Caprice & Child Portrait
Kathleen Richards
Two
Pieces: Whither & Frozen Landscape
Alan Richardson
Meadowlands
Alec Rowley
7
Preludes on all the intervals
Three
Invocations: The Shipyard, Song for Reapers, Earth Chant
Toccata
– The Two Worlds
Second
Toccata
Tunes
from an old music box
Felix Swinstead
Etude
Arabesque
My
Lady’s Minuet
Tete-
a-tete
Alec Templeton
Five
Portraits: In the Twilight (Vera), Valsette (Hazel) Melodie (Eileen) In thought
(Ursula) & A little song (Anne)
Idyll
Caprice
Toccata
Eric H. Thiman
New
Nursery Rhymes (Set 2): Hey Diddle Diddle, Matthew, Mark
Luke and John, Little Boy Blue & Jack & Jill
Andersen Tyrer (was he
British?)
Contrasts
Etude
Caprice
Reflections
Soliloquy
Three
Pieces: Nymphs, The Lake & April Days
Toccata
There
are no titles here that strike me as being particularly ‘camp’ or ‘of their
time.’ However, there are a few that sound
tempting to discover:. For example, I wonder what Kathleen Richards’ Frozen Landscape sounds like? Or Alec Templeton’s nostalgic Five Portraits: I wonder where the dedicatees ended up? Finally the two ‘big names’ here are Robin
Milford and Thomas Pitfield. Both of these composers are surely ready for
reappraisal and re-discovery.
2 comments:
Just the composers' names have nostalgic overtones for me, John, taking me back to the 1950s when I would leaf through albums of piano music for beginners in music stores. Somehow and irrationally I have always thought of these people as something other than 'real' composers...
Thanks for that Paul...
I guess that because I can play some of this type of music that I like these composers!!!!
John F
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