Instrumental Solos For Strings-This series offers a versatile selection of hit movie and TV music for flute clarinet alto sax tenor sax trumpet horn in F trombone violin viola cello and mallet percussion. Each book contains carefully edited arrangements appropriate to each instrument and well suited for level 2--3 students. The CD includes a fully orchestrated demo track of each song which features a live instrumental solo performance followed by a play-along track. Also included are PDFs of piano accompaniments and Alfred's Tempo Changer Software. Titles include: Amazons of Themyscira (Wonder Woman) Another Day of Sun (La La Land) Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast) City of Stars (La La Land) Everything Is Awesome (The LEGO® Movie) Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters) Heathens (Suicide Squad) Just Like Fire (Alice Through the Looking Glass) Kowalski Rag (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) A Man and His Beasts (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) Mia and Sebastian's Theme (La La Land) Newt Says Goodbye to Tina / Jacob's Bakery (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) Runnin' Home to You (The Flash) Westworld: Opening Theme (Westworld).

Esa-Pekka Salonen's YTA III for solo Cello. This work was written for Anssi Karttunen who gave the first performance at the Musiikin aika Festival Viitasaari Finland on 23rd July1987.'I began to work on the YTA series in 1982. The first piece was for solo alto flute the second for pianoand the third for cello. The title ‘Yta’ is a Swedish word meaning ‘surface’. I wanted to writeverydemanding virtuoso music where the surface is extremely busy but the formal process partly hiddenbehind the frenetic stream of fast gestures is considerably slower.I tried to imagine what happens to the famous moth thatcircles around a lamp in Skryabin’s Versla flamme after the wings have finally touched the flame. A series of gestures is introduced in thebeginning. Each gesture undergoes an individual development culminating in spasms beforedyingaway. YTA III is a study of the death of an organism; the music is violent and ugly.' - Esa-Pekka Salonen