Solos for Viola-Nine songs from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera arranged for solo Viola: All I Ask of You · Angel of Music · Masquerade · The Music of the Night · The Phantom of the Opera · The Point of No Return · Prima Donna · Think of Me · Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

In the composer’s own words ‘Keep in Touch is a lament a sort of chaconne divided up into sections by more freely-composed cadenzas for the Viola.’ The electronic CD supplied with the sheet music includes bluesy singing from Antony Hegarty among other sounds and Muhly clearly relishes the ‘inbetweenness’ of the singing and the falsetto of the Viola. Muhly’s music in this piece plays freely with time and key in a postmodernist way making the ultimate solitude of the Viola touching. Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who at 32 is theyoungest composer ever to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His oeuvre includes two operas and many solo pieces and works for small ensemble Orchestra and Chorus and he has collaborated widely. Download the pre-recorded element  HERE . If you encounter any problems please email promotion@musicsales.co.uk .

Opera vincitrice del Primo concorso internazionale di composizione Piero Farulli . Par LIN CHIA-YING. Opera Vincitrice Del Primo Concorso Internazionale Di Composizione Piero Farulli / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

(with optional 3rd Violin part in place of Viola)-Bizet's opera 'The Pearl Fishers'was written during 1863 and was his first important opera. Unfortunately it received a very unfavourable reaction from the critics and Bizet himself was highly critical of it during his last years. However t e duet has remained the best known extract and has been heard extensively on radio and television. This fantastic arrangement highlights the lovely intertwining melody that has become so popular.

This is the Study Score edition of Per Nørgård's String Quartet No.8 'Night Descending'. Programme note: This piece is based on 5 sections from my chamber opera Nuit des homme where a string quartet is the leading instrumental ensemble. Even though the subject is The Great War (1st World War) the plot is on a psychological level and follows the development of a couple - in poems of Guillaume Apollinaire. The couple's war enthusiasm in the beginning is replaced by horror and in the end dehumanizing. The five movements of the quartet express phases in this process: from the Eulogy of the prologue praise of the The Sun of Gold above the humananimal - a rhythmic tense and still more and more militaristic movement - to The Journey whose enlargement of conscience due to the exhausting tempo of the new era is suddenly stopped in the fourth movement carrying the title of the piece and expressing the calm before storm not as a blessing of peace but as a latent anxiety. In the epilogue of the fifth movement the theme of the prologue reappears but it is changed from hymn to elegy. The quartet is dedicated to the Zapolsky Quartet who took part in the world premiere of the opera in September 1996. Per Nørgård 1997

from Porgy and BessInstrument : string quartet (double bass ad lib.)Type : score and partsNombre de Pages : 16There is hardly any other lullaby in the field of classical music - apart from Brahms' 'Guten Abend, gute Nacht' - that has gained such popularity as George Gershwin's (1898-1937) 'Summertime'. It is a song from his opera Porgy and Bessâ'' which was premiered in New York on 10 October 1935 with only moderate success at first. Every important jazz musician insisted on presenting his own version of this rather evocative and catchy song with which Clara rocks her child to sleep at the beginning of the opera. The present version now offers the opportunity to play this famous 'Summertime' with a string quartet (and double-bass ad lib.) or string orchestra - let's swing!

Par SAMITZ NICO. 'Nico Samitz has been composing for chamber ensembles since his school days. For over ten years he has been writing works in a wide variety of genres for the „BlechReiz BrassQuintett“ ensemble, in which he himself plays trumpet and piano. His field of expertise ranges from classical pieces to jazz and meditative music—and even to pop-oriented compositions. While honing his skills in ear-training and composition at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Nico became acquainted with a wide repertoire of works as a trumpet player with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bavarian State Opera, all of which have influenced his writing style. The driving force behind his creative work is a winning combination of passion, the fun of music-making and a desire to express, through the medium of music, feelings that are difficult to put into words. Like many of his works, Nico composed The Joy of Freedom for the „BlechReiz BrassQuintet“. The catchy tune is reworked in a variety of styles throughout the entire work, giving it the quality of a true ‘earworm’. ' / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Répertoire / Quintette de Cuivres

Joseph Haydn's String Quartets Op.20 were composed in 1772 according to the date of the autographs. They are the last group in the series of string quartets with the opus numbers 9 17 20 composed a long time after the earlystring quartets in the years around 1770. Following these compositions several years were to pass before once again before Haydn wrote his next string quartets for a long while following completion of Op.20 does not necessarilyimply that he was having a 'crisis'; it might have had to do with the increasing load on Haydn occasioned by the regular performances at the Eszterhaza opera house leaving him with little time for other activities.

The music of Glinka's Ouverture to his opera 'Ruslan and Ludmila? is presented as arrangement for viola and piano by Diemut Poppen here. It is a sparkling virtuos little piece for viola and piano in D major that should be played as a last movement to Glinka's Sonata for Viola in d minor but can also be performed separately. / Alto Et Piano

These three pieces form a very short instrumental opera based on the life of James Reid a bagpiper in Prince Charlie's Jacobite army who was captured by the English in 1746 and executed after a judge had classified the bagpipes as a weapon. This piece is a string trio version of Sketches from a Bagpiper's Album (1984) for clarinet and piano scored for Violin Cello and Viola. Duration: c. 8 minutes. Score and parts included.

Set of parts for Shostakovich's String Quartet No.8 from Opus 110. This piece was written for and dedicated to the 'victims of Fascism' following a trip to Dresden. There are many recognisable themes in the piece including the Cello Concerto No. 1 and a little known tune from his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. This melody had itself been suppressed by official Soviet condemnation many critics believe that in this piece Shostakovich is also portraying himself as a victim of Facism and tyranny.

Par D'ADAMO DANIEL. “Furia Porteña” was first performed at the CETC - Colon Opera House of Buenos Aires (Argentina) by the K/D/M Trio (Gilles Durot, Victor Hanna and Anthony Millet) on August 6, 2015, as part of the concerts cycle « Anti Diáspora ». / Date parution : 2022-02-03/ Répertoire / Accordéon, Vibraphone et Marimba

Music through the Ages-Take a journey through time with More Time Pieces For Viola. These two volumes contain well-crafted arrangements presented in chronological order to take you from the seventeenth century right up to the present day.   Pieces that regularly feature on the ABRSM Viola syllabus. Invaluable source of recital repertoire. Contrasting styles from Schubert to Stravinsky and from Wagner to Weill. Arrangements that practise the note ranges and keys of the grades.   Maggy Lamb played the Viola with English National Opera and the Philharmonia Orchestra before taking up the post ofHead of Strings at St Peter’s School in York. She now divides her time between teaching performing and examining. Rachel Meredith is a Bristol University graduate. After a period performing both in the UK and abroad she now teaches upper strings in York. Rachel is also a syllabus selector and examiner for ABRSM.

Published in 1927 20 studies for Viola is the most famous work by Maurice Vieux (1884-1951) a French violist. Composed for upper intermediate / advanced players these twenty studies of two pages each will help to improve bow technique. Most of the studies are dedicated to famous violists who won the First Prize of the Paris Conservatoire: Jean Gay Etienne Ginot André Jouvensal Jacques Desestre Denise Thoret Pierre Pasquier Robert Boulay François Broos Louis Artières Mrs Crunelle-Martinet Louis Chaaton Alice Goninet Jean Lefebvre Albert Bernard Jean Cauhapé René Cézard Suzanne Robin Marcel Quattrochi Emile Amette and Alice Merckel. Marcel Vieux was also a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and a soloist at the Paris Opera. The Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition was established in 1983.