Kenneth Leighton Klaviernoten

These extended and quite complex pieces were composed during the second half of 1986, and the first performance was given by the composer on 21 November 1987. The first piece is darkly intense, No. 2...

Piano duet score. 1st performance Ellesmere College, January 1986 by Richard Markham and David Nettle. Duration c. 24 minutes. The work is in three movements and the musical thought is symphonic. The...

The Prelude, Hymn And Toccata 1987 is dedicated to, and was commissioned by the Nettle-Markham Piano Duo. It was the second work to have been written for them by the composer, the first being the Sona...

This version is written for two Pianos, Celesta and Timpani. This full score is a copy of the two-piano part.

These Six Studies (Study-Variations) Op. 56 were composed between 1968-69. The premier was performed in 1972 by Colin Kingsley in the Freemason's Hall in Edinburgh. It is one of several sets of variat...

Composed in 1953. 1st performance in Wigmore Hall, London March 1957 by Eric Parkin. Duration 13 minutes.

Pieces For Angela is a collection of eight exquisite miniatures for the Piano, written in 1966 by Kenneth Leighton. Intended for children, they are perhaps best suited for gifted amateurs. On the face...

Written and first performed by the composer in 1955.

From Virtuoso Series with Commentary by John Ogden.

1st performance Manchester, Institute of Contemporary Arts, February 1 1968 by the composer.

This 'homage to Bach' was awarded the Feruccio Busoni prize when it was premiered by a very young Maurizio Pollini (just 14) in 1956. Considered as one of the main milestones in Leighton's piano music...

A Suite for Piano was composed in 1981. Tow of the pieces bear quotations from the poets Peter Blake and James Dickey. The last two pieces in this collection are to be played without a break.

Composed for Peter Wallfisch.

Includes parts for the two Pianos, celesta and timpani.

This wonderful Sonata is from Opus 17, and is for Piano Solo.

Leighton's Sonatina No. 1 for Piano solo.

Composed in 1947, this Piano Sonatina No. 2 is one of Leighton's earliest works.