Three Solos for Violin and Piano from Swan Lake
by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Solo - Sheet Music

Piano Accompaniment; Violin

SKU: HL.298305

Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Edited by Endre Granat. LKM Music. Ballet, Classical. Softcover. 24 pages. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #S511035. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.298305).

ISBN 9781581067187. UPC: 888680951894. 9.0x12.0x0.124 inches.

Concertmaster solos in Tchaikovsky's music take a prominent place. His third and fourth Suite (Mozartiana) and the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 feature the solo violin. In the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, the violin solos were performed by the Solo Violinist of the Tsar, a title bestowed by the tsar upon the finest violinists in all of Russia. As the ballet solos were performed by the likes of Henri Wieniawski and Leopold Auer, the composers gave free reign to their creative inspiration and wrote some of their most gorgeous lyrical and virtuoso music for solo violin. The White Swan Pas de deux and the Black Swan Pas de deux are of extraordinary beauty expressing love and impending drama. The Russian Dance is a virtuoso showpiece foreshadowing the last movement of the composer's violin concerto.