David Jasen

Sarabande - Bagatelle - Aria (Sonata) - Mother's Caress - Funeral March - Hopping Game - A Merry Tale - Hunting Song and more.

Two pieces of scherzo character in triple time flank a slower movement in duple time. The first burlesque entitled 'Quarrel' is Márta's piece, Nov. 1908, is a dispute between two opposing characters,...

In August [Bartók] heard the fifty-year-old Áron Balogh playing the peasant flute in Gyergyóteker patak in Cs k district. He arranged three songs under the title From Gyergyó, for tilinkó [peasant flu...

This music, moving even in its bleakness, is characterised by the complete absence of ornamentation. The arc of all four pieces [1. Adagio, 2. Andante, 3. Poco lento, 4. Assai andante] is similar: aft...

Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak f...

The traditional African folk song, first popularized in the United States by The Weavers and later in the Disney classic The Lion King, is presented here in a simplified form for the intermediate pian...

The Two Romanian Folk Dances, Opus 8A, are a piano work written by Béla Bartók, based on Romanian folk music. Written in 1910, they date from the beginning of his interest in folk music.

Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra - The Schumann concerto is felt by many pianists to be the greatest piano concerto ever written. Integrating the piano and orchestra in an unprecedented man...

by Isaac Albéniz / transcr. John W. Schaum

Schaum level IV.

by Edvard Grieg / arr. John W. Schaum

Everyone who ever graduated from high school knows this powerful Pomp and Circumstance march. Schaum's intermediate-level piano solo of the most requested graduation march ever written can be performe...