Symphony No. 35 in D Major

This collection in The World's Great Classical Music series features 60 excerpts from 46 symphonies by a dozen beloved composers, faithfully transcribed for easy to intermediate piano solo. Composers represented are: Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. The book also gives a brief biography of each composer. Also available for Intermediate to Advanced Piano Solo (00220032).

This volume in The World's Great Classical Music series features 34 piano pieces by C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach, Beethoven, Benda, Cimarosa, Clementi, Diabelli, Dittersdorf, Dussek, Haydn, Hummel, Kuhlau, Mozart and Turk. The 16 transcriptions for piano include symphony movements by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, and concerto movements by Mozart and Haydn. The amount of music and the quality of the edition make this an excellent value.

This collection includes 35 Baroque keyboard pieces by Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Handel, Lully, Pachelbel, Purcell, Scarlatti and others, and 18 transcriptions for piano of Baroque favorites by Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell and Vivaldi. Among the most famous music in the book is Air on the G String, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, selections from Water Music, selections from Messiah, and movements from The Four Seasons. As with the rest of the series, the edition is deliberately clean, without editorial markings, allowing a teacher or performer his or her own interpretive ideas.