Piano Gallery

Description

Piano or painting, you'll have to choose... Well no!

Pam Wedgwood allows you to combine both of them. She was inspired by 14 famous works of art to compose a piece for piano related to each of them. At the center of the album, an A3 poster shows all the paintings that served her creativity (the poster is not stapled): Hokusai's Large Wave, Velasquez' Las Meninas, Gauguin's Fatata te Miti, Caillebotte's Paris Street in Rainy Weather, Van Gogh's Starry Night...

For intermediate level pianists

Pam Wedgwood:

« I've been interested in art since I was a child, and I still love to dabble with watercolours when time and mood allow. But I've particularly always wanted to write a series of pieces that have been inspired be the great works of art that I love. I've relished writing this music that responds to the mood, colour, style, story and even humour behind each painting. I hope you enjoy playing them as much as you enjoy the wonderful art. »

• Approach to Venice (Turner)
• Bathers at Asnières (Seurat)
• The Dance Class (Edgar Degas)
• En route pour la pêche (John Singer Sargent)
• Fatata te Miti (Paul Gauguin)
• Large Wave (Hokusai)
• Las Meninas (Velazquez)
• Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Chelsea (Whistler)
• Paris Street in Rainy Weather (Caillebotte)
• Starry Night (Van Gogh)
• The Swing (Fragonard)
• Where's the Antelope? (Atherton)
• Woman with a Parasol (Monet)
• Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar (Renoir)