Great Violin Solos: Violin: Instrumental Album

Some of the world's greatest Violin solos are to be found within the orchestral repertoire. The Concertmaster aims to make these solos readily accessible for the first time both for study by the aspiring orchestral leader and as a Piano reduction while the separate Violin part contains helpful hints on bowing and fingering. The Concertmaster will prove an indispensable addition to the library of the more advanced violin student or young professional. Volume I contains all the famous solos from Tchaikovsky's orchestral music including four major extracts from Swan Lake two from The Sleeping Beauty and one each from the orchestral Suites No.3 in G andNo.4 ('Mozartiana').

'The greatest jazz secret ' 'Great Dane ' 'Fiddler Supreme.' Danish violinist Svend Asmussen has been dubbed many wondrous titles. Duke Ellington's first reaction 'Man you play a hell of a lot of fiddle!' Mr. Asmussen has played with many other music legends Edith Piaf Benny Goodman Hoagy Carmichael Nat King Cole Herbie Hancock and more. At 95 he is still going strong. After a DVD on his life was presented in 2006 by Universal/Shanachie Entertainments The Extraordinary Life and Music of a Jazz Legend he produced in 2009 the Makin' Whoopee! Cd for Arbors Records and saw the production of Don't get around much anymore in which the classical violin virtuoso KimSjøgren plays the solos Svend Asmussen composed while living in the South of France years ago. Mr. Asmussen has stated 'My unattainable model was of course Johan Sebastian Bach whose famed violin solos I often practice playing.'These solos and the charts of numbers by Gershwin Ellington and Asmussen among others will attract violinists everywhere as swinging encores and as integral parts of their repertoire.The greatest secret is no longer a secret ...

Each of the solos in this collection has been carefully selected from the most popular of the great orchestral pieces and expertly arranged for the intermediate to advanced cellist with Piano accompaniment. The arranger Geoffrey Pratley has included performance notes for each piece.The 8 pieces in Great Orchestral Solos For Cello - Book Two includePiano Concerto No 2 and Swan Lake byTchaikovsky Symphony No 8 Le Soir and Symphony No 13 by Haydn Poet and Peasant Overture (Suppé) Sous les Tilleuls (Massenet) St Matthew Passion (Bach) and Tosca (Puccini).Pull-out part for Cello.

Brazil offers a great and luxurious musical variety not only for its large extension of land but also for the multiple cultural interchange established along centuries among the several peoples which contributed to the formingof its rich and varied musical map. From that triple (though not always conscious) alliance among the native Indigenous the European colonizer and the African (those latter brought here as slave workers) resulted a 'Brazility'feeling which is common to every country side despite the distances that separate them: joyous melancholic nostalgic or ritual Brazilian music is always the most authentically expression of its people their happiness andsorrows. This work is an effort to display some Brazilian popular melodies arranged for violin and piano. The themes chosen coming from the country as well as urban areas are part of a repertoire quite familiar to everyBrazilian some of them already belonging for centuries to Brazil's memory. No intention of producing a scientific or musicological work has been nourished by the arrangers. What guided them in the choice of the songs presented inthis book was above all a poetic sense and deep love for the music of their country. Enclosed are 19 violin solos on historic Brazilian themes. A free piano accompaniment is available free online.

If you are looking for exciting and challenging fiddle solos by one of America's hottest fiddlers this book is for you. Contains Craig's outstanding fiddle arrangements on: Dueling Fiddles; Rocky Top; Black MountainRag; Tennessee Waltz; Faded Love; Cajun Fiddle; Jole Blon; Gardenia Waltz; Draggin' the Bow; Granny Does Your Dog Bite?; Black-Eyed Suzie; Wabash Cannonball; and many more. Presents 60 great fiddling tunes. The audio is asparkling stereo listening recording featuring Craig Duncan backed up by a top Nashville country rhythm section. Includes access to online audio.

A follow-up book on Craig Duncan's popular 'Deluxe Fiddling Method' containing 40 great Fiddle solos in the keys of F B-flat E major E minor and A minor. Also features tunes in altered tunings contest-style-breakdowns ragtime tunes and additional fiddling favorites. The split-track audio features full performances of the first 36 tunes in the book split between Fiddle solo and Guitar accompaniment. The tunesTwinkle Little Star Under the Double Eagle and Whiskey Before Breakfast are not on the audio. Includes access to online audio.

Containing 38 Piano solos this bumper collection offers a fantastic selection of film themes all specially arranged for the Grade 1-3 pianist. Features a brand new easy-to-read notation style complete with fingerings chordsymbols and lyrics where appropriate.

11 Christmas classics-Violin Jazz On A Winter's Night features 11 Christmas classics arranged for violinists at an intermediate level (Grades 4-7) by Nikki Iles.The pieces in this collection cover a wide range of styles from swing to contemporary and draw influence from some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time including Frank Sinatra Bill Evans Vince Mendoza and Diana Krall.While paying homage to American Christmas jazz Violin Jazz On A Winter's Night also reflects a European tradition and includes stylish swinging arrangements of time-honoured classics such as In The Bleak Mid-Winter.Rhythm embellishment grooves and solos are all carefully notated and the expertise of the arranger a celebrated jazz musician and composer guarantees an authentic jazz sound.This book comes complete with a CD of full performances and backing tracks recorded by violinist Ros Stephen and Nikki Iles to help with interpretation and feel.