Pieces for Piano introduces students of intermediate to advanced levels (Grades V to VIII) to some of the most loved, interesting and more unusual of Lilburn's works for piano. Here he provides Christmas celebrations for his friends, breathes the fresh air of mountains and ocean, and explores unusual modes and tone rows, discovering a strange but nevertheless beautiful atonality. Fingering has been added to help the less experienced performer.
Douglas Liburn occupies a pre-eminent position in New Zealand music, with a legacy extending well beyond his compositional output. As a composer, a teacher, and later as a warm, generous and encouraging background presence, he presided in innumerable ways over the artistic growth of this country. His music, from the early works redolent of the influence of Sibelius and Vaughan Williams, to the electroacoustic pieces of his later years, makes up a corpus of works that has been instrumental in establishing a genuinely vernacular voice in New Zealand classical music.
