Set pieces and reviews

C major · 88 bpm

Children at Play, No. 1 (from For Children, vol. 1)

Béla Bartók

Bartók assembled *For Children* between 1908 and 1909, drawing on the Hungarian and Slovak folk material he had collected on field trips with Zoltán Kodály.

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G major · 120 bpm

Minuet in G (from Clavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach)

Georg Böhm

This is the famous "Bach" minuet — the one from the *Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach* (1725) that generations of pianists learned as Bach's.

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D major · 120 bpm

German Dance, Hob IX:12 No. 1

Joseph Haydn

Haydn produced a steady stream of *Deutsche Tänze* across his career — short triple-metre dances written for court balls and informal gatherings, lighter cousins of the minuet that gradually evolved (in the next generation) into the Viennese waltz.

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G minor · 108 bpm

Minuet in G minor

Christian Petzold

Like its G-major sibling (also long credited to Bach), this minuet was reattributed in the twentieth century to Christian Petzold, organist at the Sophienkirche in Dresden during Bach's lifetime.

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G minor · 96 bpm

Fantasia in G minor

Georg Philipp Telemann

Telemann's three sets of *Fantasias for Keyboard* (1732–33) sit between the suite tradition and the through-composed sonata.

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C major · 116 bpm

Rigaudon

Georg Philipp Telemann

The rigaudon is a French Baroque dance — a brisk duple-time piece originating in Provençal folk music that spread through the seventeenth-century French court and into the Baroque suite alongside the gavotte and bourrée.

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E minor · 100 bpm

Hornpipe in E minor, Z 685

Henry Purcell

Purcell's keyboard miscellany — short pieces collected after his early death — sits at the heart of the English Baroque keyboard repertoire.

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E minor · 100 bpm

Hedwig's Theme (from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

John Williams

John Williams composed *Hedwig's Theme* for Chris Columbus's 2001 film adaptation of *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*, and the celesta-led melody became one of the most instantly-recognisable film cues of the early twenty-first century.

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G minor · 132 bpm

It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing)

Duke Ellington (arr. Sam Leak)

Duke Ellington and Irving Mills wrote *It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing)* in 1931, and Ellington's recording the following year codified "swing" as both a musical feel and the name of an era.

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