New Releases by David Dutkanicz

These easy-to-intermediate piano duets include Schubert's Variations on a French Song; Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, Op. 72; Mendelssohn's Allegro brillante, Op. 92; many other popular selections. Includes downloadable MP3 files for each piece.

This edition of Vivaldi's perennially popular work features distilled selections from the entire score — winter, spring, summer, and fall — that have been specially adapted for beginning pianists.

Accessible collection, focusing on the composer's melodies and style, presents manageable samples of the more abstract works. Includes highlights from The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Les Noces, and Petrushka.

These simplified versions of 29 of the composer's most popular works include selections from Daphnis et Chloé, Rapsodie espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, Le tombeau de Couperin, and other works.

With these manageable arrangements, beginning pianists of all ages can play selections from Mozart's final masterpiece. The score has been expertly simplified and augmented with performance suggestions by the editor.

Specially arranged keyboard versions of popular works include selections from La Traviata, Aïda, Otello, Falstaff, Don Carlos, Macbeth, Rigoletto, and other operas. All selections are available as downloadable MP3s.

Beginning pianists can have the pleasure of playing one of Western music's most popular pieces with this easy-to-play arrangement, which offers highlights from the work and includes downloadable MP3s.

The music of Richard Wagner can be daunting to beginning pianists, but this collection offers an accessible approach to the famous nineteenth-century composer's works. The arrangements focus on Wagner's melodies and style, presenting manageable excerpts from the more abstract works in simplified keys and with suggested fingerings. Thirty-one musical pieces consist chiefly of selections from Wagner's operas. Highlights include the thrilling "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Valküre, the second of the four Ring Cycle operas. Other pieces from the epic musical series include "Siegfried the Hero" from Siegfried and "Song of the Rhine Daughters" from Götterdämmerung. The collection also features pieces from Parsifal,Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman,Rienzi, Lohengrin, and Tristan und Isolde, as well as other works. Each selection features a brief Introduction that provides historical context and, in some cases, suggestions for performance.

Beginners often find the compositions of Antonin Dvořák frustratingly difficult to play, but this introductory volume provides an accessible and satisfying entrée to the Czech composer's oeuvre. Excerpts from his more abstract works are presented in manageable samples, with simplified keys and fingerings, and the pieces are presented in gradually increasing order of difficulty. There are an assortment of Dvořák's well-known and much-loved compositions. Humoresques is a piano cycle inspired by his sojourn in the United States. Slavonic Dances was influenced by Brahms' Hungarian Dances. Flavorful pieces rooted in folk music, including excerpts from the Czech Suite and Prague Waltzes and a pair of lively mazurkas are featured. Other highlights include "Songs My Mother Taught Me," "The Noon Witch," and pieces from cello and violin concertos and symphonic movements. All thirty-six selections are available as downloadable MP3s.

This easy-to-play edition features Tchaikovsky's entire original suite; two extended arrangements, March and Russian Dance; plus five selections from the ballet that the composer omitted from the suite.

This volume focuses on scale and arpeggio studies in all major and minor keys, offering beginning pianists the opportunity to develop their skills in this foundational area. Includes MP3 recordings.

Update of the original, an essential part of the repertoire for more than a century, features exercises for training in speed, agility, and strength of fingers and wrists plus downloadable MP3s.

Simple, easy-to-play arrangements focus on melodies and style: "Vocalise"; Prelude No. 2, Op. 3 ("Bells of Moscow"); second movement, Piano Concerto No. 2; more. Includes MP3 files for each composition.

Beginning pianists of all ages will thrill to this compilation of 57 piano classics, ranging from standards such as Chopsticks and Can Can to classical works by Rachmaninoff, Mozart, other composers. Perfect for practicing, MP3 files are included for each song.

Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation, which features multiple pieces by many of the greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, and others.

Suitable for beginning pianists of all ages, this volume includes the famous "Lullaby," the theme from "Academic Festival Overture," "Hungarian Dance No. 5," excerpts from "A Study for the Left Hand," more.

Offers twenty-one easy-to-play melodies for the piano including George Gershwin's "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Irving Berlin.

Simplified piano arrangements featuring some of the best-loved ragtime music of all time.

Simplified piano arrangements featuring some of the best-loved blues music of all time.

Accessible to novices of all ages, these easy-to-play renditions include selections from "Forest Scenes," "Scenes from Childhood," "Album for the Young," and "Carnaval."