A Romantic Sketchbook for Piano explores the wealth of piano music from the Romantic period in five carefully graded albums. Mostly composed between 1830 and 1930, the pieces in these albums have been selected to introduce players to a wide range of music, from works by some of the leading Romantic composers, such as Schumann, Mendelssohn and

Tchaikovsky, to unfamiliar pieces by lesser-known figures. Each volume presents a variety of keys, time signatures and textures within a comprehensive range of tempi, which will be invaluable to students in the development of their musical skills. Players will also respond imaginatively to the varying styles and mood offered in these colourful sketchbooks, from the lively dances and mood pictures to the tender songs and gentle serenades.

Alan Jones was for many years Publishing Manager at ABRSM and has edited a number of volumes of Romantic music within ABRSM’s Easier Piano Pieces series.

• Little Piece in E flat [César Franck]
  
• Waltz in E, Op. 39 No. 5 [Johannes Brahms]
  
• Impression, Op. 41 No. 108 [Zdenek Fibich]
  
• Soldiers’ March, Op. 47 No. 14 [Robert Fuchs]
  
• Tylette (The Cat) [Carlo Albanesi]
  
• Miniature Pastoral No. 2 [Frank Bridge]
  
• Study in C minor, Op. 125 No. 16 [Stephen Heller]
  
• Christmas Bells, Op. 36 No. 1 [Niels Wilhelm Gade]
  
• Miniature, Op. 62 No. 8 [Theodor Kirchner]
  
• The Clock on the Wall, Op. 62 No. 2 [Theodor Kullak]
  
• Little Flower, Op. 205 No. 1 [Cornelius Gurlitt]
  
• Cradle Song, Op. 66 No. 7 [Edvard Grieg]
  
• On the Lake, Op. 77 No. 12 [Heinrich Hofmann]
  
• A Puzzle, Op. 25 No. 2 [Génari Karganov]
  
• Study in G, Op. 36 No. 26 [Aleksandr Fyodorovich Gedike / Philip Harper]
  
• Scherzo, Op. 183 No. 5/3 [Carl Reinecke]
  
• First Bunch of Flowers [Gustave Sandré]
  
• The Gossip, Op. 55 No. 4 [Paul Zilcher]
  
• The Sailor [Arthur Somervell]
  
• At the Smithy, Op. 8 No. 5 [Samuil Moiseyevich Maikapar]
  
• The Lost Lamb: No. 1 from ‘April Morn’ [William Alwyn]
  
• Study in G minor: No. 5 from ‘The Wheel of Progress’, Op. 74, Book 2 [Thomas Dunhill]
  
• Prayer, Op. 43 No. 2 [Reyngol'd Moritsevich Glier]
  
• Balancelle (See-saw), Op. 149 Book 1 No. 4 [Benjamin Godard]
  
• Alla Pollacca, Op. 48. No. 4 [Alexandre Guilmant]
  
• Study in A, Op. 37 No. 40 [Henry Lemoine]
  
• Study in F, Op. 65 No. 25 [Albert Loeschhorn]
  
• Study in A minor, Op. 340 No. 2 [Charles Mayer]
  
• A little slow Waltz, Op. 11 No. 3 [Carl Nielsen]
  
• Pastoral scene, Op. 10 No. 1 [Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov]
  
• Waltz in Ab, Op. 9 No. 3, D. 365/3 [Franz Schubert]
  
• Village Merriment, Op. 105 No. 5 [Eduard Schütt]
  
• Donkey Ride: No. 1 from ‘The Young Idea’ [Felix Swinstead]
  
• Le Courante Limpide (The Clear Stream), Op. 100 No. 7 [Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller]
  
• Le matin en hiver (Winter morning), Op. 39 No. 2 [Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky]
  
• Reaper’s Song (Schnitterliedchen), Op. 68 No. 18 [Robert Schumann]
  
• Clowns: No. 20 from 24 Easy Pieces, Op. 39 [Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky]