Iain Farrington

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  • Biography
  • Arrangements
    • Chamber Orchestra
    • Symphony Orchestra
    • Chamber Music
    • Choral & Vocal
    • Piano/Organ
    • Opera
    • Songs
    • Piano reductions
    • Elgar Complete Edition
    • List of orchestral performers
  • Compositions
    • Orchestra
    • Piano
    • Organ
    • Chamber
    • Vocal & Choral
  • Pianist
    • London 2012 Olympics
    • Mahler Piano Series
  • Organist
  • Art Deco Trio
  • Recordings
  • Diary
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Picture
Grade by Grade
​for Piano Solo


Iain has compiled a series of piano anthologies for the publisher Boosey & Hawkes, containing repertoire and learning material appropriate for Grades 1 to 5. He has selected repertoire from the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, including works by Bartok, Elgar, Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. Iain has also made new arrangements of familiar repertoire, including light music from the world of radio and TV, as well as compositions of his own. The volumes also include performance tips, scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire, new sight-reading activities, aural awareness tasks, and a CD with Iain performing all the works.

More information here.
Grade 1

Christopher Norton: WALKING TOGETHER
Dmitri Kabalevsky: MY STUBBORN LITTLE BROTHER
Johannes Brahms (arr. IF): WIEGENLIED
Hywel Davies: AIR
Traditional: SUR LE PONT D’AVIGNON
Jessie Blake: THE LITTLE WHITE CLOUD
Alex Joannides: SEA BREEZE [Duet]
Traditional (arr. IF): AMAZING GRACE
Béla Bartók: QUASI ADAGIO from ‘For Children’
Iain Farrington: FROM THE NORTH
Dmitri Shostakovich: MARCH
August Eberhard Müller: SICILIANO
Traditional: SUSY, LITTLE SUSY
Paul Hughes: QUESTIONS
Anon: A TOYE
Traditional: THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW [Duet]
Rodgers & Hammerstein: DO-RE-MI
Traditional (arr. IF): ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN

Grade 2

Traditional: THE PLOUGHBOY
John Hawkins: DONKEY DRIVE
Zoltán Kodály: CHILDREN’S DANCES – No 1
Béla Bartók: SORROW from ‘For Children’ (volume 2)
Dmitri Kabalevsky: A LITTLE SONG
Iain Farrington: TRANCE
Francisco Tárrega (arr. IF): GRAN VALS
Christopher Norton: CLOUDY DAY
Rodgers & Hammerstein: MY FAVORITE THINGS
Dmitri Shostakovich: THE BEAR
Anon: CORRANTO
Paul Hughes: UP TO NO GOOD
Elena Kats-Chernin (arr. IF): ELIZA ARIA
Anon: LULLABY [Duet]
Serge Prokofieff: THE CAT from ‘Peter and the Wolf’
Christopher Norton: ALL TOGETHER NOW [Duet]
Traditional (arr. IF): SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Grade 3

Béla Bartók: ROUND DANCE
Bernstein & Sondheim: AMERICA
Traditional: O WALY WALY
Bohuslav Martinu: A LITTLE WALTZ FOR SONICKA
Iain Farrington: GAMELAN GLIMMER
Arthur Benjamin: A SONG WITH A SAD ENDING
Paul Hughes: LAST TANGO IN POWYS
Dmitri Shostakovich (arr. IF): SUITE FOR VARIETY
ORCHESTRA – Second Waltz
Dmitri Kabalevsky: PLAYING BALL
Anon: WATKIN’S ALE
Aram Khachaturian: A LITTLE SONG
Zoltán Kodály: CHILDREN’S DANCES – No 2  
Christopher Norton: PICNIC PIECE
Traditional (arr. IF): LONDONDERRY AIR
Edward Elgar: SONATINA – first movement
Arthur Wood (arr. IF): BARWICK GREEN
Serge Prokofieff: PETER’S THEME
from ‘Peter and the Wolf’
Grade 4

Arthur Benjamin SOLDIERS IN THE DISTANCE
William Byrd: LA VOLTA
Béla Bartók: TEASING SONG
Carlos Gardel (arr. IF): POR UNA CABEZA
Peter Maxwell Davies: CALM WATER
Julius Fucík (arr IF): ENTRANCE OF THE GLADIATORS
Henry Purcell: ROUND O
Serge Prokofieff: MARCHE from ‘Musiques d’Enfants’
Christopher Norton: EARLY EVENING
Aram Khachaturian: SCHERZO
Duke Ellington (arr. IF): RUDE INTERLUDE
Dmitri Kabalevsky: SONATINA
Sergei Rachmaninoff (arr. IF): PIANO CONCERTO No 2
– first movement
Iain Farrington: STEPPING STONES
Dmitri Shostakovich: CLOCK-WORK DOLL
Kenneth J Alford (arr. IF): COLONEL BOGEY MARCH

Grade 5

Christopher Norton: SIERRA
Dmitri Shostakovich: GAVOTTE
Aaron Copland: IN EVENING AIR
Frank Bridge: ALLEGRETTO CON MOTO
Trevor Duncan (arr. IF): MARCH
Arthur Benjamin: HAUNTED HOUSE  
Iain Farrington: ECHOES
Duke Ellington (arr. IF): DALLAS DOINGS
Aram Khachaturian: THE LITTLE HORSE
Elena Kats-Chernin: LITTLE DOOR
Dmitri Kabalevsky: CAVALRYMAN
Sam Fonteyn (arr. IF): POP LOOKS BACH
Rodgers & Hammerstein: CLIMB EV’RY MOUNTAIN
Serge Prokofieff: MONTAGUES AND CAPULETS
Francisco Tárrega (arr. IF): GRAN VALS

Separate volumes published by Boosey & Hawkes
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