Chester Music imprint: 158 books

Chester Music’s best-selling series, The Essential Collection Gold, features works by some of the most famous composers, ranging from Henry Purcell to Scott Joplin, with each album highlighting a particular composer or genre. This anthology presents a selection of the best from the across...

The Essential Baroque Collection is a sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the Baroque era by composers ranging from Henry Purcell to J.S. Bach and beyond, all presented in one superb volume for intermediate-level solo Piano. The music of the Baroque is characterised by innovation...

From the best-selling Easy Piano Collection Gold, a series featuring the greatest classical composers arranged for easy solo piano, Handel Gold presents a selection of the most famous masterpieces from George Frideric Handel. The works included are: - Air (Water Music) - Allegro (Water...

The Essential Late Romantic Collection is a sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the late Romantic era by composers ranging from Tchaikovsky to Fauré and beyond, all presented in one superb volume for intermediate solo Piano. The music of the Romantic era is characterised...

The Essential Early Romantic Collection presents a sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the early Romantic era by composers ranging from Schubert to Chopin and beyond, all presented in one superb volume for intermediate level solo piano. The music of the Romantic era is characterised...

Piano Music of Spain: Volumes One to Three is a bumper edition containing over 40 of the most quintessential Piano solos that characterise the music of nineteenth and twentieth century Spain. Thirteen featured composers are included in this anthology, including Manuel De Falla, Isaac Albeniz,...

The Essential Classical Collection is a sumptuous selection of the very best music of the Classical era by composers ranging from Mozart to Beethoven and beyond, all presented in one superb volume for advanced solo Piano. The music of the Classical era is characterised by melodic elegance and...

This episode of the The Essential Collection series presents the most famous masterpieces by George Frideric Handel arranged for solo piano. The works included are: - Air (Water Music) - Allegro (Water Music) - Allegro Moderato (Harp Concerto In B Flat) - Art Thou Troubled? (From Rodelinda) -...

Manuel De Falla: Music for Piano, Book 2, the second of two albums of piano music by Manuel de Falla, includes a range of original piano pieces as well as Falla's own arrangements of his best-known works. Suitable for advanced pianists. Songlist: - Canción - Cortego De Gnomos - Vals-Capricho -...

Frederic Chopin: Music From and Inspired by The Pianist contains authentically transcribed music from the Academy Award and BAFTA winning film, including ten solo Piano works by Chopin, some of which have been arranged by Jerry Lanning. The film was adapted from the memoir of Jewish-Polish...

This episode of the The Essential Collection series presents a collection of the best classical works from this highly successful series, including Bach's Air On A G String, Joplin's Entertainer and Debussy's Clair De Lune, all arranged for solo piano. The works included are: - Air (Water...

Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was demonstrably at the centre of British musical activity for much of his almost sixty years of creative life. He was one of the most distinguished of Nadia Boulanger’s pupils and, as professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, teacher of some of the leading...

Twenty-Four Contemporary Pieces For Solo Piano includes a diverse selection of works from 16 of the world's leading composers. The 24 pieces featured in this collection represent the best of contemporary classical Piano music being composed today. As well as being a compilation of fantastically enjoyable...

Philip Glass, early protagonist of the Minimalist movement, studied with Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger. His first job, assisting Ravi Shankar on a film soundtrack, heralded the start of his own successful cinema career, and to date he has scored over fifty movies. First Classics contains five...