Lost British Piano Works: Part 2

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.