This collection tells little stories on the piano, written for some very young pianists. Each title sets a musical and technical challenge. Individual pieces may be put together to tell a longer story. The pieces are ordered progressively, with some requiring simple preliminary exercises. Easy to start with (using grace notes, playing legato and staccato), they become gradually more demanding as different fingerings, pedal use, phrasing and dynamics are introduced. Articulation, phrasing and tem...

• Pitter-Patter
• Sparrow Song
• Leaf in the Wind (to Leyla Ida Dahlhaus)
• Secret (for Ronja Blechschmidt)
• Joker (for Laura Bechschmidt)
• Passing Bird
• Crystal Ball
• Cloudy Sky (Melodic Version)
• Cloudy Sky (Fifth-third accompaniment)
• For Benedikt
• Big Wave (Stormy, with fifths)
• Big Wave (Coming in-going out)
• Big Wave (Raging)
• The Hen, or: Did the Rooster Lay an Egg?
• The Chick
• Sofly Falls the Snow
• Snowy Owl: Are you Sleeping
• Little Whirlwind, Study for Michelle (In eight ...