Christmas for Ten Fingers

Christmas for Ten Fingers is a colourful festive companion to the enduringly popular Ten Fingers series for beginner pianists. The collection comprises easy arrangements of well-known Christmas carols and songs in the five-finger position, with handy keyboard diagrams and fingerings to help early learners.

Each piece is presented with a fun and supportive accompaniment part that can be played at the same keyboard as a duet, and a selection of tunes are offered in an alternative key (up to one sharp or flat) for those looking for an extra challenge. Beautifully presented with full-colour illustrations, the collection also includes lyrics to encourage singing along. Ideal for playing together in lessons, sightreading, and seasonal concerts, Christmas for Ten Fingers is the perfect festive gift for any aspiring pianist!

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Choral Classics

The Cloths of Heaven, settings of poems by William Butler Yeats, received its premiere at St Martin in the Fields on Sunday 22 September 2024 in a programme of music all by Michael Higgins.

Higgins – How can I keep from singing?
Higgins – My heart is like a singing bird
Higgins – He’s gone away (from Three American Songs)
Higgins – The Cloths of Heaven

St Martin’s Chamber Choir
Léonie Adams, cello
Rhiannon Crompton, piano
Olivia Tait, director

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BBC Radio 4

Michael’s May the road rise to meet you featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sunday Worship’ on St Patrick’s Day broadcast from the National Cathedral of St Patrick in Dublin.

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BBC Symphony Chorus

The BBC Symphony Chorus with pianist Michael Higgins survey the world and its seasons through Jonathan Dove’s virtuosic cantata for double chorus The Passing of the Year and shorter pieces that take us through the seasons from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Caroline Shaw and Reena Esmail. The concert begins with pieces that look at matters earthly and divine from Brahms, Michael Higgins and Sven-David Sandström. BBC Symphony Chorus Director Neil Ferris conducts this free performance.

Johannes Brahms Geistliches Lied
Michael Higgins See, I am God
Sven-David Sandström To see a World
Caroline Shaw And the swallow
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Summer is gone
Reena Esmail A Winter Breviary
Jonathan Dove The Passing of the Year

Michael Higgins piano
Neil Ferris conductor
BBC Symphony Chorus

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