Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM Piano exam pieces from Grades 1 to 8.

Book 2 features popular pieces previously set on ABRSM Grades 3 and 4. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Top Cat! or Burgmüller’s dramatic Ballade Plus, we’ve included background information and new ideas for exploring the music!

Songlist:

Prelude in C, BWV 939, from 6 Little Preludes from J. P. Kellner’s Collection [Johann Sebastian Bach]

Round Dance , No. 17 from For Children, Vol. 1 [Bela Bartók]

Wiosna [Frederik Chopin]

Top Cat! [Joseph Barbera / Hoyt Curtin]

Waldvoglein (Little Wood-bird), No. 15 from Skizzen (Sketches), Op. 77 [Heinrich Karl Johann Hofmann]

Zur Sonnenuntergangsstunde: No. 7 from Regenbogen Préludes [Manfred Schmitz]

L’éléphant: from Le carnaval des animaux, arr. Heumann [Camille Saint-Saëns]

Blue Sky Blue: No.1 from Jazz Jazz Jazz [Dave Stapleton]

Sonatina in G minor: Andante un poco allegretto [Georg Benda]

Ballade, Op. 100 No. 15 [Johann Friedrich Burgmüller]

Allegretto: Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 2, first movement [Muzio Clementi]

Carnival in Rio [William Gillock]

Baa, Baa, Blue Sheep’s Waltz, No. 5 from More Swinging Rhymes [Terence Greaves]

Aria in G, from Suite No. 8 in G (1727 coll.), HWV 441 [George Frideric Handel]

Little Boats on the Water (Petits bateaux sur l’eau) [Gustave Sandré]

Freeway: No. 1 from Rhythm and Rag [Alan Haughton]

Clowning Around: from 30 Children's Pieces, Op. 27, No. 10 [Dmitri Kabalevsky]

Arietta in Eb, Op. 12, No. 1 from Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 [Edvard Grieg]

Allegro in F: No. 33 from Nannerl Notenbuch [Anon.]

Sonatina in Bb, No. 8 from 12 Sonatinas, Op. 4 [Samuel Wesley]