Spectrum : 20 contemporary works for solo piano

This remarkable set of pieces presents a unique introduction to the world of contemporary music for all pianists, both amateur and professional. The volume reflects the wide range of compositional trends apparent in new music today. The pieces in this collection offer a range of moods and sound-worlds to suit all players.

Spectrum is an exciting and innovative collection of newly commissioned works for solo piano by composers all resident in Great Britain. This remarkable set of pieces presents a unique introduction to the world of contemporary music for all pianists, both amateur and professional. The volume reflects the wide range of compositional trends apparent in new music today. Jazz-inspired or experimental, delicately atmospheric or glitteringly colourful, tonal or rhythmically complex, the pieces in this collection offer a range of moods and sound-worlds to suit all players. Eleanor Alberga: If the Silver Bird could speak; David Bedford: Toccata; Diana Burrell: Constellations; Philip Cashian: Landscape; Brian Elias: Moto Perpetuo; Michael Finnissy: Yvaropera 5; Graham Fitkin: SAZZ; Michael Zev Gordon: Far Away; Jonathan Harvey: ff; Alun Hoddinot: Dark March; Gabriel Jackson: Memorial Blues (for Phyllis Hyman); Stephen Montague: Mira; Anthony Payne: Song Without End; Roger Redgate: trace; Jeremy Dale Roberts: Stele for John Lambert; Edwin Roxburgh: Moonscape; Timothy Salter: Lutie''s Arabesque; David Sawer: Diversion; Howard Skempton: Cantilena for piano; Andrew Toovey: Still