Favourite Italian Melodies. Italian culture influence many art forms and perhaps none more so than music. In this album, David Brooker has arranged, for violin and piano, eleven well-known pieces that simply shout 'ITALY” at you! 'Italian Classics” includes the unforgettable 'O Sole Mio”, 'La Donna è Mobile”, 'Funiculi, Funicula” and Verdi's 'Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves”. For intermediate players, 'Italian Classics” should complement your repertoire collection just as a glass of Soave accompanies Pasta alla Carbonara. And for antipasto, try Brooker's 'Classical Favourites from Russia” for two violins. Discover the most popular Italian folk songs and opera classics as well as Giorgio Contes 'Gné Gné' Rewarding arrangements for intermediate-level players and beyond (3-6*) Straightforward accompaniments support the soloist Ideal pieces for performing, expanding the repertoire and playing just for fun/ Recueil / Violon et Piano

The Violinissimo series attempts to make the rich repertoire of five centuries of violin music accessible for lessons, concerts and private music-making. The anthology Serenade contains a selection of 36 intermediate arrangements for violin and piano which can be used for performance purposes to enlarge the educational standard repertoire and make it more interesting and may therefore be a constant companion of every advanced pupil in his/her lessons. / Violon Et Piano