Some of the same songs as in the Faber Piano ...
936521
Some of the same songs as in the Faber Piano Adventure books.  I bought it as a supplement, but instead it repeats a lot of the same songs.
296668
Lots of familiar songs adapted for solo piano for the advanced student, but not terribly difficult.
223715
This is a very nice, easy collection for me to use with my granddaughter who is a piano student of mine and keep her interested in playing.
100492
This book is full of nice and easy piano solos which are great to just pull out and play if you need a break from your more demanding piano pieces. I like all but two of the songs- Behind the Waterfall by Lanz and the one called Ocala- they're too repetative and are boring to play. These aren't the exact music that the artists themselves play. -They're slightly simplified versions that are almost completely as pretty as the originals.
1341008
Although this score does not include all the intermittent recitatives and orchestral arrangemtnts, it does offer a good piano transcription of the major songs with words.  For anyone wnating to use any of the songs of JCS, this publication is very good.
667159
This album has the same songs from other greatest hits albums.  The ONLY reason to get this is the songs, "Heaven", "Tomorrow Today", and "Gravity is my Enemey".  I love these otherwise impossable to find songs.
3672819
Hal Leonard keeps a lot of the same songs repeated from one issue to the next. I'd love to get more modern/contemporary pieces in a new collection.
1469922
This is a nice collection of classic children's songs and nursery rhymes.  Some of the arrangements could be a little more interesting, and I find the book hard to keep open when I play the piano for my son.
4596207
Hate to split hairs, but technically there are only about 35 piano concertos here spread out among 100 tracks (since some of the concertos are in three or four movements).  Still, what more could you want for less than three bucks?  The quality is good and the selections are beautiful.
4469498
The main attraction on this CD is the Piano Concerto of Gabriel Piern&eacute; (1863-1937). It is a three movement work that in some key respects is modeled on Saint-Saens' once-popular Second Piano Concerto whose classic recording is by Arthur Rubinstein&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Saint-Sans-Concerto-No-2-Franck-Symphonic-Variations-Liszt-Concerto-No-1/dp/B000QEIM4G/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Saint-Sans: Concerto No. 2 / Franck: Symphonic Variations / Liszt: Concerto No. 1</a>. It has a middle movement that is a scherzo as well as two fast outer movements. There are moments of repose here and there but there is no true slow movement. The first movement has clotted chords that presage the piano style of Rachmaninov, but the music itself is rather chromatic and frankly not all that attractive, although it is expertly written both for the piano and the orchestra. The middle movement is a quicksilver scherzo that really does sound a lot like Saint-Saens. The third movement is again fairly chromatic and brings back the main theme of the first movement &agrave; la C&eacute;sar Franck. Bavouzet plays the dickens out of the piano part but one wonders how much effort he had to put into learning this piece when he could have been learning something more rewarding. Perhaps the PC is still popular in France, but my guess is that it will not catch on anywhere else. Side note: You can download the score of the Piano Concerto here - [...]%28Piern%C3%A9,_Gabriel%29

But the rest of this disc is delightful. It starts with Piern&eacute;'s most familiar work, an orchestral miniature called 'The March of the Little Lead Soldiers', which once featured fairly frequently on pops concerts or as an orchestral encore. It was originally a piece written for piano students but became so popular that he scored it for orchestra -- he also made a version for wind band as I recall. It is perky, sassy and charming.

'Divertissements sur un Th&eacute;me Pastorale' is a twelve-minute set of variations on a memorable theme. It was written in 1931 -- almost fifty years after the 1887 Piano Concerto -- and the style could not be more different. Piern&eacute; had been paying attention to what was going on in French music and it includes such things neoclassic gestures and even some glissing jazzy trombone licks. A thoroughly likable piece.

The CD ends with two suites of music taken from the incidental music he wrote in 1908 for a performance of Pierre Loti's play 'Ramuntcho', set in the Basque country and featuring a hero, Ramuntcho, who is a smuggler, and a heroine, Gracieuse, whose family have forced her to go to a convent rather than marry him. It ends rather unbelievably with the heroine dying of the stress of trying to make a decision between Ramuntcho or the Church. As for the incidental music -- did they really perform full-orchestral incidental music for play performances back then? -- it is both colorful and tuneful. There is a full-dress overture that features Basqu tunes and a section in the 5/8 time signature of the typical Basque dance, the zortzico (the same rhythm recurs in the final piece, the 'Rapsodie Basque'). There is the lovely, serene 'Le Jardin de Gracieuse' followed by a piece describing the death of Ramuntcho's mother and one that limns the dancing and singing at a village celebration where Ramuntcho and Gracieuse met, 'Fandango'. There are two other sections, one of which describes the convent and one portraying the smugglers' lair, 'Cidrerie'.  Lovely music, very nicely played by the BBC Philharmonic under its newly designated chief conductor, the Spaniard Juanjo Mena.

Although I have some reservations about the quality of the piano concerto, I do recommend this CD for its glimpse into the music of a composer who in his time was best known as long-time conductor of the Concerts Colonne but whose music shows he had real talent.

Scott Morrison
3117941
Victor Wainwright can play some piano. If you enjoy that rockin' blues piano that is rarely found today, you could do a lot worse than Wainwright's debut. While the songs are not particularly memorable and a bit derivative, the underlying talent behind them shines through. I'd definitely give this artist another shot as his songwriting talent matures to match his piano playing chops.
2327703
Some of the songs are played twice on this CD (from the musical and from the movie), but this did not bother me.  I love the music of the Four Seasons.
3814656
I love the songs in this collection.  I only rated this music book 3 stars because the piano part is an accompaniment, and rarely contains the melody.  I would prefer to play the melody, as I don't sing, and sometimes don't know the melody.
4582650
Great collection of piano arrangements of many of the greatest hits from the OST. My only complaint is the binding. It should be a crime to print a music book that has a binding that won't let it stay open when sitting on a music stand. Would recommend making copies of the music you want to learn so you don't damage the book itself.

Here is a list of the included songs:

City Ruins - Ray of Light
Peaceful Sleep
Memories of Dust
Birth of a Wish
Amusement Park
A Beautiful Song
Voice of no Return - Guitar [Note: This isn't an arrangement for guitar; it is based on the version of the song with guitar accompaniment.]
Grandma - Destruction
Emil's Shop
Treasured Times
Vague Hope - Cold Rain
Weight of the World [with lyrics in English and Japanese]
End of the Unknown
Pascal
Dark Colussus - Kaiju
Copied City
Wretched Weaponry
Mourning
Dependent Weakling
Rebirth and Hope
War and War
Vague Hope - Spring Rain
Song of the Ancients - Atonement
Emil - Despair
Faltering Prayer - Starry Sky
Alien Manifestation
The Tower
The Sound of the End
2865020
Its OK.  Some great renditions but not as consistently good as other Sounds Eclectic editions.  The last two songs are the highlights for me: M.Ward's Let's Dance and k.d. lang's Hallelujah.
3038557
These are good arrangements.  Some of them are a bit repetitive (i.e. songs sounding the same), but I appreciate the variety so that I can match them up with other service music.  I really like Melody Bober solos - and these are comparable to hers in difficulty (late intermediate) and quality of arrangements
1095956
Some different takes on some familiar favorites .