Set pieces and reviews

List A · A major · 138 bpm

Scherzo (3rd movement from Sonata in A, Op. 2 No. 2)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven's Op.

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List A · C major · 152 bpm

Pop Corn (No. 18 from Confections: A Piano Sweet)

Akira Yuyama

Akira Yuyama was a Japanese composer (Tokyo University of the Arts) whose marimba and piano music has been a staple of the Japanese teaching repertoire for half a century.

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List A · E minor · 96 bpm

Le coucou (Rondeau) (1st movement from Troisième suite)

Louis-Claude Daquin

Daquin was organist of the Chapelle Royale at Versailles and one of the leading French clavecinistes of the early eighteenth century — a younger contemporary of Rameau and Couperin.

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List B · F major · 60 bpm

*** (No. 30 from Album für die Jugend, Op. 68)

Robert Schumann

Schumann's *Album für die Jugend* Op.

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List B · F major · 60 bpm

Adagietto pianissimo (No. 1 from Suite de danzas criollas, Op. 15)

Alberto Ginastera

Ginastera was the leading Argentine composer of the twentieth century — a teacher of Piazzolla, a champion of South American art music in the international concert hall, and the writer of three style-periods (objective nationalism, subjective nationalism, neo-expressionism).

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List B · B flat major · 92 bpm

Musical Sketch in B flat (No. 1 from Two Musical Sketches)

Felix Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn's *Two Musical Sketches* are late piano miniatures — written in the last years of his short life, in the same lineage as the *Lieder ohne Worte* but more compressed.

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List C · G major · 120 bpm

The Watermill

Esther Kahn

Esther Kahn is a British composer and pianist whose teaching repertoire draws on the English pastoral tradition (Vaughan Williams, Howells, John Ireland) reframed for the modern syllabus.

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List C · G minor · 84 bpm

Lowside Blues

Joanna MacGregor

Joanna MacGregor is one of Britain's leading concert pianists — a Bach specialist, a contemporary-music champion (Birtwistle, Reich, Adès), and head of piano at the Royal Academy of Music.

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List C · C major · 138 bpm

Allegretto (No. 1 from Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5)

Dmitry Shostakovich

Shostakovich wrote the *Three Fantastic Dances* Op.

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