Format : Score
Description These 11 well-known pieces composed especially for Violin make an ideal introduction to playing more advanced solos. Each piece reveals something about the Violin's capabilities as a solo instrument and there are selected background notes about some of the music featured, plus pictures and a brief introduction to the Violin's history and development. - an ideal book for any aspiring Violin soloist! Songlist Adagio (Violin Concerto In G Minor) [Bruch, Max] Adagio (Violin Sonata No.3 In D Minor Op.108) [Brahms, Johannes] Andante (Violin Concerto In E Minor) [Mendelssohn, Felix] Chanson De Matin [Elgar, Edward] Concerto For Two Violins (2nd Movement: Largo Ma Non Troppo) [Bach, Johann Sebastian] First Movement - Autumn (The Seasons) [Vivaldi, Antonio] First Movement - Spring (The Seasons) [Vivaldi, Antonio] Méditation (Thaïs) [Massenet, Jules] Pizzicati (Sylvia) [Delibes, Leo] Romance From Second Concerto Op.22 [Wieniawski, Henryk] Romance In F Op.50 [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]
SKU: HL.14004213
9.0x12.0x0.175 inches.
Five Pieces for Violin and Orchestra was commissioned by Frederick Grinke and completed on 20 December 1961. The BBC Symphony Orchestra with Frederick Grinke (violin) and conducted by the composer, gave the first performance on 31 July 1962 at the Royal Albert Hall, London during the BBC Proms season. This work is so constructed that each piece is complete in itself and can be played separately, while at the same time the whole set of five constitutes a structural unit. A basic motif consisting of a rising semitone followed by a falling tone, and its inversion plays an important part in every piece. Thus the first piece, which is of a slow and meditative character, begins with this theme in the bass. It is also heard in the first entry of the solo part, and thereafter every episode is in some way derived from it. The next piece, a vigorous and strongly marked 'allegro', uses the semitone of the original figure as its starting point. A second theme appears, first on the horns and is later taken up by the solo violin, while a third section has the initial idea as its accompaniment. Next comes an extended scherzo in free form very closely based on initial motif. The fourth is a purely melodic piece containing allusions in its middle section to the basic figure. Here the strings only are used for accompaniment. In the first section, violas and cellos are divided in the middle section, and all the strings are used in the last, which is otherwise an almost exact repetition of the opening. The Finale is a lighter movement than the others, concerned mainly with giving the soloist material for display, but not unconnected with what has gone before.
SKU: CF.PL1072
ISBN 9781491160244. UPC: 680160918836.
An Anthology of Piano Music for the Left Hand Alone marks a rare and significant entry to the piano literature as one of the only collections of the oft-neglected left-hand piano repertoire. Serious literature for the left hand alone has a long and storied past. Contained within this volume, the serious advanced pianist will find a wealth of artistically satisfying repertoire for the left hand that will not only strengthen the technical development of the left hand, but also make for impressive showpieces on the recital stage.This volume includes hitherto unpublished gems like Earl Wild's Etude No. 3 for the Left Hand Alone (Based on Gershwin’s The Man I Love) and Ruth Wylie's Soliloquy for Piano, Left Hand, Op. 23, as well as established classics of the repertoire like Godowky's Chopin arrangements, and even modern and contemporary additions like Bartok’s Etude for the Left Hand and Corigliano's Etude No. 1 for the Left Hand Alone.
SKU: HL.49019054
ISBN 9790001147828.
On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. No wonder that she dealt with the solo violin repertoire her whole life long. Concert works with orchestral accompaniment as well as chamber music works were the results of her compositional endeavours, and she attended to both the large and the small form. Apart from sonatas deeply rooted in the Romantic tradition, Johanna Senfter also wrote '5 Stucke' Op. 100 for violin with piano accompaniment. They are five miniatures which combine to form a kind of sonatina, while nevertheless being quite equal to its big sister, the sonata, as regards playing and compositional technique. A musically demanding, yet rewarding work by the Reger pupil.
