Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.800631 Composed by Gustav Holst. Arranged by Richard Simm. 20th Century. Score. 10 pages. Richard Simm #2033293. Published by Richard Simm (A0.800631). The title of Holst's short comic opera, The Perfect Fool is intended as a joke based on Wagner's Parsifal (The Blameless Fool), and this delightfully kaleidoscopic ballet music shows the composer's brilliant orchestral mastery. This is a technically-difficult solo piano transcription by Richard Simm for ambitious pianists, and captures the infinite variety, humor, excitement, exquisite delicacy and raucous violence of Holst's score.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1302976 Composed by 'Fats' Waller and Harry Brooks. Arranged by Richard Simm. 20th Century,Jazz,Ragtime,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Richard Simm #892581. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1302976). A departure from my usual 2-piano arrangements of classical repertoire, I felt that this irresistible song from 1929 just had to be arranged for ambitious solo pianists who have moments when they want to have some fun. After all, good music is good music, whatever mood you're in!I started my career playing simple versions of this kind of music by ear, and despite becoming dedicated to the classical musical world, I've never lost my admiration for the musicality and technical assuredness of many ragtime, honky-tonk and jazz pianists of 100 years ago. The best of their music is truly inspiring.The tempo I have chosen is livelier than 'Fats' Waller's own performance of the song, where he sings to his own piano accompaniment. It's more like the tempo of Louis Armstrong's inimitable version on trumpet.