2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1188789

By Richard Simm. By Richard Simm. Arranged by Richard Simm. Folk,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score. 3 pages. Richard Simm #788405. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1188789).

This is the final song in Richard Simm's collection of Five Irish Tunes for two pianos. In 1724 some hot springs were discovered in the Irish town of Mallow, which soon became a famous health resort. The Rakes in the title of this well-known polka were a group of young lads who preferred drinking other things than the supposedly health-giving water there, and this catchy tune gives an inkling of the fun and games that seem to have been their main goal in life...

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1187941

By Richard Simm. By Richard Simm. Arranged by Richard Simm. Folk,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score. 2 pages. Richard Simm #787548. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1187941).

This suite is based upon Richard Simm's Five Irish Melodies, which were originally composed for beginner students to play as piano duets with their teachers or with advanced students. In their new guise for two pianos, they are technically more challenging, but they have the advantage of allowing each performer total control over the subtle pedalling which is sometimes needed here. The lyrics tell of a girl who knows which man she loves, but heaven only knows which one she'll marry...

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1126731

Composed by Richard Simm. Arranged by Richard Simm. Chamber,Classical,Folk,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score. 4 pages. Richard Simm #727380. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1126731).

The first item in this suite of Icelandic tunes by Richard Simm is a hair-raising ghost story! These Icelandic melodies were originally arranged by Simm for beginner students to play as piano duets with their teachers or with advanced students. In their new form for two pianos, they are more embellished and technically challenging than the originals, but are short enough not to present too much of a hurdle. Four of the five songs are known to every Icelander, and their original texts often have stark, dramatic undertones.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1464123

By Richard Simm. By Bedrich Smetana. Arranged by Richard Simm. 19th Century,Classical,Folk,Multicultural,Romantic Period,World. Score. 9 pages. Richard Simm #1042836. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1464123).

Smetana struggled hard for recognition in his life as a composer, but in his later years his major contribution to a Czech national style in music was acknowledged. Vltava is a marvellous orchestral depiction of the river that flows through Prague, reflecting the aspect of realism which was part of his romantic inspiration.

This 2-piano arrangement by Richard Simm is pianistically advanced in order to retain as much as possible of the original's rich orchestral texture, but the focus is on the beautiful main theme of the work, concluding with Smetana's rather Wagnerian coda. Polished pianists will enjoy taking part in the powerful, surging flow of this descriptive work.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1185006

By Richard Simm. By Richard Simm. Arranged by Richard Simm. Folk,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score. 3 pages. Richard Simm #784681. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1185006).

The original text of this beautiful Irish lullaby has been lost, but new lyrics were added for the song's first publication in 1904. The imagery used includes kings, fairies and other folk beings, sung while rocking a child to sleep beside the dyin' fire.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1288884

By Richard Simm. By George Butterworth. Arranged by Richard Simm. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Folk,Multicultural,World. Score. 11 pages. Richard Simm #879723. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1288884).

George Butterworth was a uniquely gifted composer and arranger of English folk songs, who was tragically killed in action during WW1 at the age of only 31.
His small output included the song cycle, A Shropshire Lad, from which he expanded the first song, Loveliest of Trees into a wonderful orchestral rhapsody.
The music is full of passion, but also the most delicate sensitivity, capturing the romantic essence of the English countryside from bygone days.
This arrangement by Richard Simm for two pianos now gives pianists access to this beautiful music.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1183771

By Richard Simm. By Irish Folk Tune. Arranged by Richard Simm. Folk,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score. 3 pages. Richard Simm #783459. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1183771).

The third piece in Richard Simm's 2-piano set is an irresistible jig, which needs no introduction, since anyone who has had anything to do with folk dance from the British Isles will know it. The similar English folk tune, Dargason, probably lies behind this melody, but here we are using what is generally considered to be the Irish version - and very lively it is too!

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1416730

By Richard Simm. By Soloviev-Sedoi. Arranged by Richard Simm. 20th Century,Folk,Multicultural,World. Score. 5 pages. Richard Simm #998394. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1416730).

This lovely song has become a folk tune in its own lifetime.  Composed in 1955 during the Soviet Russian Era, it achieved supreme worldwide popularity during the early 1960s, although the film for which it was originally composed has been forgotten.  Exotic, atmospheric harmonies, along with a truly memorable melodic line, transcend national boundaries and attest to the genuine musical gifts of composer Vasily Solovyev-Sedoi. Here it is in Richard Simm's arrangement for 2 pianos.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1423827

By Richard Simm. By Charles Marie Widor. Arranged by Richard Simm. Classical,Praise & Worship,Religious,Romantic Period,Sacred. Score. 13 pages. Richard Simm #1005053. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1423827).

Richard Simm having some serious 2-piano fun with Widor's famous Toccata from his 5th Organ Symphony. The original is a technical marathon for the performer's right hand, although the footwork is relatively easy. So the idea here was to arrange this spectacular work in a new format for two pianos, and in such a way as to redistribute all those right-hand notes between two hands and generally give both performers a more comfortable time.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1042682

Composed by Richard Rodgers. Arranged by Richard Simm. Broadway,Musical/Show. Score. 22 pages. Richard Simm #647110. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1042682).

The amazing harmonic and melodic gifts of Richard Rodgers, which fit so perfectly with the lyric talents of Oscar Hammerstein II, have inspired some equally amazing musical achievements in Hollywood, where some of the most remarkable musicians of our time worked upon Rodgers's original scores and enhanced them with truly wonderful orchestral arrangements of the accompaniments to the songs. Richard Simm was in turn inspired by their unsurpassed work to give this item from Carousel a new treatment as two-piano music. It was arranged with the generous permission of the Rodgers & Hammerstein company.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.800634

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Richard Simm. Baroque,Classical. Score. 8 pages. Richard Simm #6714545. Published by Richard Simm (A0.800634).

Bach's music often lends itself to performance by instruments other than the ones he specified. In this 2-piano transcription by Richard Simm, the wide range of a modern piano allows for an entertaining, even humorous, two-piano treatment of this wonderfully lively piece.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1117571

Composed by Edvard Grieg. Arranged by Richard Simm. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 5 pages. Richard Simm #719109. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1117571).

The second piece in Grieg's orchestral suite is a rustic march, here arranged for two pianos by Richard Simm.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.800639

Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Richard Simm. 20th Century. Score. 29 pages. Richard Simm #6719265. Published by Richard Simm (A0.800639).

This awesome depiction of a boat on a vast ocean was originally scored, like the composer's Alborada del Gracioso, for solo piano, and is also fearsomely difficult. Ravel later orchestrated both works, and his amazing gifts in this field give us extremely valuable insight into his imaginative conception of this watery scenario. Richard Simm was inspired by the magnificent orchestration to build upon it by arranging it for two pianos instead of one - a combination which Ravel himself often enjoyed using.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.800640

Composed by Edvard Grieg. Arranged by Richard Simm. Romantic Period. Score. 3 pages. Richard Simm #6744729. Published by Richard Simm (A0.800640).

This beautiful, sad lullaby, which Solveig sings at the end of Ibsen's play, is every bit as touching as Solveig's more famous 'Song'. Grieg's original orchestral accompaniment uses only muted strings and harp, but the result is full of powerful emotion, inspiring this effective, warm-textured performing version for two pianos by Richard Simm.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1274763

Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Arranged by Richard Simm. 19th Century,Classical,Folk,Opera,Romantic Period. Score. 5 pages. Richard Simm #866912. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1274763).

This lively dance comes from the closing scene of Mussorgsky's comic opera, The Fair at Sorochyntsi. He wrote the libretto himself, basing it on a short Ukrainian story by Gogol, and he also arranged the Hopak for piano solo. Richard Simm has returned to the available orchestral material as the basis for his colourful 2-piano version.