Set pieces and reviews

List A · B flat major · 88 bpm

Invention No. 14 in B flat, BWV 785

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach compiled the *Two-Part Inventions* (BWV 772–786) in Cöthen around 1722–23 as the first systematic course in keyboard counterpoint for his eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann.

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List A · C major · 132 bpm

Sonata alla Scarlatti

Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre was the only woman in *Les Six*, the Parisian group around Cocteau and Satie that defined a generation of French neo-classicism.

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List A · G major · 120 bpm

Spilleværket (No. 6 from Humoreske-Bagateller, Op. 11)

Carl Nielsen

Nielsen's *Humoreske-Bagateller* Op.

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List B · F major · 100 bpm

Bagatelle in F (No. 1 from Two Bagatelles)

Fanny Hensel

Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) was Felix's elder sister and one of the most accomplished German composers of her generation — a pianist in the Berlin salons her family hosted, the writer of more than 450 works, much of it published only after her death.

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List B · D major · 84 bpm

Esquisse in D (No. 9 from 12 esquisses, Op. 47)

Reinhold Glière

Reinhold Glière taught at the Moscow Conservatoire, conducted the Bolshoi, mentored Khachaturian and Prokofiev, and wrote across symphony, opera, ballet, chamber and piano repertoire — much of it in a deliberately conservative late-Romantic idiom that survived the Soviet shift in cultural policy.

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List B · C major · 76 bpm

Last Song (from The Secret Piano)

Alexis Ffrench

Alexis Ffrench is a British classical-crossover pianist and composer (Sony Classical) whose albums — *Evolution*, *Truth*, *The Secret Piano* — sit in the same broadly-tonal contemporary-piano idiom as Ludovico Einaudi and Yiruma.

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List C · F major · 144 bpm

Stamping Dance (No. 128 from Mikrokosmos, Vol. 5)

Béla Bartók

*Mikrokosmos* (Sz.

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List C · F major · 132 bpm

The Bounce

Zoe Rahman

Zoe Rahman is a British jazz pianist and composer — Mercury-shortlisted, MOBO-winning, with a recorded output that draws on her Bengali and Anglo-Irish heritage as much as on the Tyner-Hancock line of post-bop piano.

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List C · D minor · 92 bpm

Shushiki (No. 4 from Dances)

Komitas Vardapet

Komitas Vardapet (Soghomon Soghomonian) was the founding figure of Armenian sacred and ethnographic music — a priest, musicologist and composer who collected over four thousand folk songs in the early twentieth century before being deported during the 1915 Armenian genocide.

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