More Piano Time Classics

Pauline Hall graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and then taught in schools and privately. Whilst living and teaching in Harrogate she felt the need for a piano tutor which made learning fun, and which progressed at the pace of her slowest learner. She started by writing little tunes in pupils' notebooks, and these formed the basis of Tunes for Ten Fingers; the Piano Time series developed from this.

Each arrangement has been kept short, yet Pauline Hall has skilfully incorporated all the main tunes - these really do sound like the originals. What's more, she's managed to shoehorn them all into easy keys: most are in C, while the rest stick to one sharp or one flat in their key signatures. And to top it all, the book's designed to stay open on the music stand and the quality is commendable too: nicely spaced music, clear typesetting, a little useful history to many of the pieces, the odd quirky illustration, and, of course, no page turns all add up to an extremely desirable music book for early-grade pianists and keyboard players.

• Rule Britannia! ; Minuet in G ; Moonlight Sonata ; Sonata Pathetique (2nd movt) ; Polovtsian Dance ; Gavotte ; Prelude from Te Deum ; Trumpet Voluntary ; Golliwogg's Cakewalk ; Waltz from Coppelia ; Humoreske ; Sicilienne ; Aria from Orfeo ed Euridice ; Morning from Peer Gynt ; Largo ; La Rejouissance from the Fireworks Music ; Theme from Quartet Op. 3, No. 5 ; Plaisir d'Amour ; O for the wings of a dove ; Clarinet Concerto (2nd movt) ; Romance from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ; Theme from Sonata K.331 ; Canon ; La Campanella ; Dido's Lament ; Rondeau from Abdelazer ; Elephant from Carnival of the Animals ; Cradle Song ; Marche Militaire ; Dreaming ; Roses from the South ; Tritsch Tratsch Polka ; Dance of the Little Swans from Swan Lake ; Waltz from Sleeping Beauty ; Waltz from Swan Lake ; Autumn from the Four Seasons ; Bridal March from Lohengrin ; La Paloma