Thalia Myers – författare

Spectrum is an exciting and innovative collection of newly commissioned works for solo piano by composers all resident in Great Britain. This remarkable set of pieces presents a unique introduction to the world of contemporary music for all pianists, both amateur and professional. The volume reflects the wide range of compositional trends apparent in new music today. Jazz-inspired or experimental, delicately atmospheric or glitteringly colourful, tonal or rhythmically complex, the pieces in this collection offer a range of moods and sound-worlds to suit all players. Eleanor Alberga: If the Silver Bird could speak; David Bedford: Toccata; Diana Burrell: Constellations; Philip Cashian: Landscape; Brian Elias: Moto Perpetuo; Michael Finnissy: Yvaropera 5; Graham Fitkin: SAZZ; Michael Zev Gordon: Far Away; Jonathan Harvey: ff; Alun Hoddinot: Dark March; Gabriel Jackson: Memorial Blues (for Phyllis Hyman); Stephen Montague: Mira; Anthony Payne: Song Without End; Roger Redgate: trace; Jeremy Dale Roberts: Stele for John Lambert; Edwin Roxburgh: Moonscape; Timothy Salter: Lutie's Arabesque; David Sawer: Diversion; Howard Skempton: Cantilena for piano; Andrew Toovey: Still

Spectrum 2 builds on the enormous success enjoyed by Spectrum, first published by ABRSM in 1996. This new volume presents 30 specially-commissioned miniatures for pianists, written by leading composers born or now based in Great Britain. Presenting a vibrant diversity of musical language and thought, Spectrum 2 reflects the breadth of current compositional trends and will serve as an invaluable introduction to contemporary music. Spectrum 2 contains pieces that are easier and shorter than those in the original Spectrum; they range in standard from Grade 1 to Grade 6 and are a concise and true representation of each composer's style. They are suitable for amateur and professional pianists of all ages.

A CD recording of the pieces found in Spectrum 3, performed by Thalia Myers. Spectrum 3 is the latest addition to the enormously successful Spectrum series, established by ABRSM with Thalia Myers in 1996. the aim of the series remains constant: to commission some of the finest composers to write pieces of modest length and difficulty, whilst preserving the essential characteristics of their compositional style. This international volume contains twenty-five pieces written at the turn of the millennium by composers from twenty-five different countries. It demonstrates how the language and tradition of Western classical music have been absorbed and adopted by composers all round the world, and how that language has been enriched and enhanced by each composer's unique background, experience and musical personality. The pieces in Spectrum 3 range in standard from Grade 3 to Grade 7 and are suitable for student, amateur and professional pianists of all ages.