Partita is popular with students and professionals alike – chosen as a test piece in many prestigious competitions and featuring in concert programmes and recordings by some of the world's finest players.

The piano score includes a part in both Bb (treble) and C (bass).

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Duration c.8‐9 minutes.

In Memoriam H.K. is dedicated to the memory of Hans Keller, the internationally renowned musician, writer, broadcaster and teacher, who died on 6th November, 1985.

The piece consists of a series of alternating cortèges and incantatory dirges. The former start as if from a great distance while the latter always remain to the fore. As the work progresses the cortèges become louder, the dirges more impassioned and the clear demarcation of the two blurred, until a thematic climax is reached. The last section is an epitaph in which the work's main material is played in its simplest, starkest form.

In Memoriam H.K. was first performed by Barrie Webb on 25th May, 1988 at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool as part of the 'Up Beat to the Tate' Festival. It has been recorded by him on compact disc for Musica Nova (CD Nova 16)

The title reflects not only the use of Sinfonia to describe a relatively recent musical form but also the older, literal meaning of the word: that is, voices sounding together.

In the manner of the characteristic 'romantic' pieces of Schumann, these three lyric pieces exploit the more introspective and poetic nature of the instrument.

Duration 11‐12 minutes