The Piano Bench Of Classical Music: Editor'S Choice

This book is amazing. It has an excellent collection of classical music.

For someone who plays inexpertly purely for personal enjoyment, this volume offers a wonderful range of familiar classical pieces of varying difficulty. I also love the lay-flat binding. I'm very satisfied. I also have the Piano Bench volume of easy classical music, but find some of the pieces 'dumbed down' to the point that they lose what made them attractive in the first place. The volume is much better, and many of the pieces not much more difficult.

I recently got into playing the piano seriously again and I am really starting to enjoy playing some classical music. So, I decided to buy this book, and it is a lot of fun to play. The editorial additions for dynamics are also very good, although some are not what I made when I first learned the peace (notable the dynamics I came up with for Bach's Invention in F major were quite different), but music is about each person, so I can't really make that a flaw in the book.What I really like about this book is the selection of pieces. I feel like I've heard most of these pieces before at some point even if I didn't know their names. And the ones that I didn't recognize were very nice pieces as well and I am happy to know what they are now. The difficulty of the pieces in this book is probably high-intermediate and advanced. But there are some simple pieces in this book if you practice enough. The arrangement of the pieces by the period of music is also very interesting and helps show the distinguishing characteristics of each type of classical music.The coil binding of this book was very useful as well, since it stays flat open unlike other books where I have to bend the spine and make it stay open. It is a very thick book, but it doesn't come in the way of anything.Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to play classical music and wants a good introduction and selection of pieces.

The collection is a great repertoire of classical music with masterpieces for each skill level. No matter how many years of piano experience you have, you will find a challenging piece in the book. And if you are new to piano playing, this book should accompany your scales, chords, and sheet music reading practice. It contains pieces from all the masters of classical music at various difficulty levels. So, you can practice an easy piece of Chopin and study not only the art of music playing but also the style of the master himself.

Excellent music. I was particularly pleased with the fast delivery.