The Piano Player: Wintertide presents 20 seasonal and wintry pieces of classical music, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include ‘Carol of the Bells’ by Mykola Dmytrovych, ‘Sleigh Ride’ by Leroy Anderson, ‘The Snow’ by Edward Elgar, ‘Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy’ by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and ‘Sinfonia’ from Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach. The cover features Edward Bawden’s watercolour Great Bardfield, 1955, and a double-side colour print provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible.
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1. The Boar’s Head Carol (Traditional)
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2. Don Oíche Úd I mBeithil (Traditional Irish)
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3. Ode to Joy [Ludwig van Beethoven]
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4. Winter Solstice Song [Béla Bartók]
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5. Silent Night [Franz Xaver Gruber]
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6. Sleep for Mama (Icelandic Folk Song) [Víkingur Ólafsson]
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7. What Gently Flutters [Dustin O’Halloran and Bryan Senti]
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8. The Gloucestershire Wassail (Traditional English)
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9. Une vaine crainte (Traditional)
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10. Winterzeit I [Robert Schumann]
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11. Largo (from Winter, The Four Seasons) [Antonio Vivaldi]
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12. The Skaters’ Waltz [Émile Waldteufel]
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13. Gabriel’s Message (Traditional)
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14. Still [Ola Gjeilo]
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15. Frost [Gabriel Ólafsson]
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16. Cold (Mvt. 3) [Erland Cooper]
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17. A Faint Qualm for the Future [Luke Howard]
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18. Lo, How A Rose E’re Blooming [Michael Praetorius]
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19. Sans Day Carol (Traditional)
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20. The Cold
| Arrangement | Piano |
| Genres | Christmas, Classical |
| Level | 3 |
| NumberOfPages | 208 |
| Publisher | Faber Music |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9780571543434 |