FrankCox Hello Frank. I hadn't heard of Readers Digest Sondbooks but will shorty do a search to see if they are available in the UK. On a sadder note I think I remember reading a news report the other day that Readers Digest was to cease publication in the UK.
At the moment I find it difficult to say what are my favourite books...I have a crate full of them...and perhaps an easy answer would be to say the book (or books) that I am playing from today. I certainly have a favourite piece of sheet music which is Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson and which I recorded for this forum earlier this week to put into the Amateur Recordings thread.
I came back to piano playing because of my interest in orchestral classical music and so I have books of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky. My Debussy book was borrowed by a friend and I haven't had it back. I have light jazz books, showtune books such as Andrew Lloyd Webber etc. Not keen on Chopin so that book is confined just to the preludes, most of his other stuff I find too fussy and also difficult to learn. With Beethoven I love the orchestral music but not so much the piano music. With Mozart it is the other way around. No doubt you are concluding I am one mixed up guy.
Another piece of music I couldn't part with is a shortened piano solo version of Rach's 2nd piano concerto. I keep coming back to play the second movement but less often the first movement and even less often the third which is more difficult. I also have a copy of Beethoven's fourth piano concerto shortened and arranged for solo piano which is equally treasured.
