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ScoreThe Composers’ Series, Volume 8 (a) : Piano solos, Advanced / Frank Hutchens ; edited and recorded by Jeanell Carrigan.
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Featured Australian works
| Work | Composer | |
|---|---|---|
| Ballade — solo piano | Frank Hutchens | |
| Fairy ships — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Gavotte brilliante — solo piano | Frank Hutchens | |
| Lullaby on a hidden theme — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Prelude — solo piano | Frank Hutchens | |
| Sea Fantasy — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Sea music — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Serenade — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| The Surfer — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Toccata — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Vienna Interlude Study for right hand, optional both hands | Frank Hutchens | |
| The Voyage — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Waltz — solo piano This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens | |
| Weeping mist : (A legend) piano solo This edition: 2020 |
Frank Hutchens |
Product details
14 piano solos for advanced students, composed between early
1930s and 1960s. The volume includes a CD of these works.
Hutchens was an extraordinary teacher, who taught at the NSW
Conservatorium for almost 50 years and his writing for the piano
is always pianistic. These compositions for piano are quite
extraordinary in that despite being based on very natural hand
positions, and therefore very comfortable to play, they give the
impression of being challenging works. This is the case even for
the simpler pieces. His musical language could be described as
impressionistic, occasionally late romantic, and he uses
compositional elements found normally in the music of
Impressionistic compositions: unsymmetrical phrases, whole tone
scales, unresolved dissonances, and the harmony, while basically
tonal explores chromaticism.
This volume of piano solos is unique as until now there has been
no collection of his works. Despite having written over fifty
piano compositions they had been published as single items and no
compilation had existed. This volume includes the more difficult
and challenging works. Volume 8 (b) is designed to present works
of approximately fifth to eight grade standard and Volume 8 (c)
has elementary to grade five pieces.
More comprehensive biographical notes are within the volume which
also includes a CD of all the works.
Includes biographical notes about the composer and notes on the music, written by the editor, and CD of the works performed by Jeanell Carrigan.
ISMN: 979 0 720231 10 5
Related products
Score: Fairy ships : for piano / by Frank Hutchens.
Score: Weeping mist (A legend) : piano solo / by Frank Hutchens.
CD: The enchanted isle / Tamara Anna Cislowska, piano.
CD: Sea impressions : Piano miniatures by Australian composers / performed by Jeanell Carrigan.
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