Set pieces and reviews

List A · A minor / A major · 132 bpm

Alla Turca (3rd movement from Sonata in A, K. 331)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart's Sonata in A, K.

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List A · C minor · 88 bpm

Il pleut

Mélanie Hélène Bonis (Mel Bonis)

Bonis was a French composer trained at the Paris Conservatoire under César Franck, admired by Saint-Saëns, and active across orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano repertoire — but largely hidden behind a contracted byline (*Mel Bonis*) so her work could be performed at all.

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List A · C major · 96 bpm

Sonata in C (Pastorale), Kp. 513

Domenico Scarlatti

Scarlatti wrote 555 keyboard sonatas in his decades at the Spanish-Portuguese court, and the *Pastorale*, Kp.

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List B · G flat major · 66 bpm

La fille aux cheveux de lin (No. 8 from Préludes, Book 1)

Claude Debussy

*La fille aux cheveux de lin* ("the girl with the flaxen hair") is the eighth of Debussy's Book 1 *Préludes* (1909–10) — the most-played and most-loved miniature in the set.

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List B · F major · 104 bpm

il porco rosso (from Porco Rosso)

Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi (Mamoru Fujisawa) has scored almost every Studio Ghibli film since *Nausicaä* (1984).

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List B · E major · 60 bpm

Consolation in E (No. 2 from Consolations, S. 172)

Franz Liszt

Liszt's *Consolations* S.

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List C · B minor / modal · 80 bpm

In the Dew, a Homage to Janáček (from Homages, Book 1)

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Cheryl Frances-Hoad is one of the leading British composers of her generation — a former cellist, BBC Young Composer winner at fifteen, and writer of operas, orchestral works and a substantial chamber and piano output.

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List C · A flat major · 88 bpm

Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin

*Maple Leaf Rag* (1899) is the piano rag that established Scott Joplin's reputation and turned ragtime from a regional African-American piano style into a national publishing phenomenon — Joplin's first big seller, the work that kept his estate solvent, and the most-played rag in the entire repertoire.

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List C · B flat major · 80 bpm

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Manning Sherwin & Eric Maschwitz

*A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square* (1939) is one of the great Anglo-American song standards — music by Manning Sherwin (an American songwriter then resident in London), lyrics by Eric Maschwitz (the BBC writer who also gave us *These Foolish Things*).

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