The Pianodao Music Library brings together all of the repertoire which has been reviewed, shared or otherwise featured on the site. As such it is a varied, extensive, inclusive, and ever expanding body of carefully curated music.
Early Intermediate music is suitable for players at around UK Grades 3-4 level or equivalent.
There are more than 400 titles in the full archive, from which selected highlights are showcased below. You can also explore the full archive, and check out the most recent reviews here:
The following selections showcase publications that my regular students have enjoyed and that I frequently recommend. The selections offer a core program of classical, contemporary, and jazz music suitable for each level.
My Publications
The Joy of Graded Piano
These five inspiring collections bring together essential repertoire for players of all ages. The “greatest hits” of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic piano literature appear alongside brilliant newer pieces composed by women and men from all around the world, right up to the present day. Grades 1-5.
Graded Gillock • Three Essential Collections
William Gillock’ music continues to inspire piano students around the world with its catchy tunes and imaginative content. My three collections deliver 41 of his very best pieces, sorted by level and including my playing tips.
Naoko Ikeda Graded Collection
For this publication I have selected and edited 24 of Naoko Ikeda’s best solo works, presenting her pieces in approximate order of difficulty, grouped from Grade 2 to Grade 5 level.
Willis Student Recital Collection
‘The Willis Student Recital Collection’ offers a selection of 40 enjoyable performance pieces for elementary to late intermediate players, written by some of the world’s most acclaimed piano education composers.
Recent Reviews
Calming Christmas Carols for Graded Piano
With so many Christmas-themed piano books on the market, and with yet more appearing to challenge our established favourites each year, it takes something quite special and distinctive to stand out from the crowd. And here it is…
Carolyn Miller • Piano Expressions
The obvious and very natural blend of musical inspiration and educational content to be found in these pieces make Carolyn Miller’s ‘Piano Expressions’ a superb addition to the intermediate piano education repertoire, indeed a truly magical one!
Jakub Metelka • Puppet Theatre
Early intermediate players who enjoy imaginative content presented within a fairly traditional framework, and who embrace challenge in their learning, will absolutely love this latest collection from award-winning composer Jakub Metelka…
Debbie Wiseman • Ten
Debbie Wiseman has been voted the most popular living composer by Classic FM listeners, and it’s easy to understand her wide appeal based on these attractive and winsome piano pieces, suitable for intermediate players. One of the must-have collections of 2025 so far…
Ben Crosland’s Jazz Beans!
From beginner to proficient jazzer, the Jazz Beans series offers a delicious mix of styles and catchy melodies which will surely bring much enjoyment, and inspire players of all ages (and especially teenagers) to develop their groove!
Phillip Keveren • Twelve Serenades
Phillip Keveren’s latest collection of original music is suitable for early intermediate players (around UK Grades 3-4). This is an ingenious set of short, evocative solos which journey through the twelve key centres on the piano.
Prokofiev • Musiques d’enfants
Schott Music’s new edition of Prokofiev’s ‘Musiques d’enfants’ is an outstanding edition of a true milestone in our repertoire. And with exemplary and creative Teaching Notes by Monika Twelsiek, this publication also raises the piano education bar…
My First Handel
‘My First Handel’ from Schott Music delivers a superb collection of intermediate pieces by a great keyboard composer whose contribution to the repertoire is often, and too easily, overlooked…
Exploring the Classics
Schott’s Easy Concert Pieces
Schott Music’s Easy Concert Pieces series offers very traditional, but superbly presented and well edited, selections of core repertoire for elementary to late intermediate players.
Piano Music by Women Composers
Immanuela Gruenberg’s two new collections of ‘Piano Music by Women Composers’ are quite simply outstanding, an essential milestone which every intermediate or advanced pianist should rush to welcome…
The Classical Piano Sheet Music Series
I love it when a music book exceeds my initial expectations, and the three books in Hal Leonard’s new Classical Piano Sheet Music Series score a hat trick on that front…
Women Composers: A Graded Anthology
Melanie Spanswick’s groundbreaking ‘Women Composers: A Graded Anthology’ series offers three volumes of superb and highly varied music by composers past and present.
Discovering Burgmüller
Burgmüller’s three collections of piano etudes, Op.100, Op.105 and Op.109 have been cornerstones of the piano pedagogy literature for over a century and a half, and remain as popular today as ever…
Bartók • Definitive Collections?
I can’t help feeling that the ongoing preservation of our culture (both folk and art) rests at least in part on the success of publications such as these in inspiring a new generation of musicians to carry the flame onward.
My First Haydn
Haydn’s music can be guaranteed to put a smile on your face, and I think that this collection is the best introduction to his easiest piano works that I’ve come across!
My First Schumann
This is a collection that will “keep on giving”, with such a great selection of pieces for students to enjoy over a number of years.
‘My First Schumann’ is a brilliant introduction to one of the world’s greatest ever piano composers.
Contemporary Favourites
Paul Harris • Rainbow
Boosey & Hawkes have recently issued a brand new edition of Paul Harris’s brilliant “Rainbow” collection of intermediate piano miniatures, with audio recordings and the composer’s performance tips.
Find out more about this classic reissue here…
Piano Tales for Peter Pan
Nikki Iles has done it again! Piano Tales for Peter Pan delivers another delicious mix of her trademark wit, imagination, and jazz-tinged brilliance.
Mike Springer: Lyrical Landscapes
Lyrical Landscapes is Mike Springer’s latest series, appearing as three collections of solo piano music aimed at intermediate players.
Angeline Bell’s Garden Notebook
Angeline Bell’s Lyrical and Quirky Notebooks were a highlight of 2023.
Now she’s back with ‘My Garden Notebook’, which confirms that she really is a superb composer of appealing educational piano music…
Phillip Keveren’s ‘Piano Calm’
For his latest publication, “Piano Calm”, ace arranger Phillip Keveren has turned his hand to composing 15 original pieces, suitable for intermediate players, which he describes as ‘reflective solos’. And I think they are excellent…
The Gradebusters Series
“Gradebusters” from Hal Leonard, now encompasses five solo piano books, for Grades 1 to 5, each delivering “15 awesome solos”, and together serving up a rich feast of 75 universally popular and neatly arranged songs that piano players everywhere will be keen to play…
Easy Piano Series: “Film” and “Shows”
There is always room on the music shelf for easy piano arrangements of well-known and popular songs – players of all ages naturally find it encouraging and enjoyable to tackle tunes that are familiar to them, their family and friends.
The Jazzin’ About Anthology
‘The Jazzin’ About Piano Anthology’ brings together 41 of Pam Wedgwood’s favourite pieces from across the series, presented progressively in one volume from early elementary to intermediate level (UK Initial to Grade 5)…
Celebrating Disney
As the Disney centenary draws to a close, I don’t want to miss the opportunity to highlight some of the recent publications from Hal Leonard celebrating the studio’s unrivalled catalogue of hit songs, spanning the decades…
Calming Piano Solos
These books are for all intermediate pianists with an open mind and a desire to discover fresh musical treasures. And if the music here promotes a sense of calm, that will I am sure be a very welcome bonus!
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