Classical Repertoire for Violin Volume One

SKU: GI.G-10810

ISBN 9781622777167.

The Audition Method for Violin is a must-have for all violinists on the audition circuit. Bowings, fingerings, and, most importantly, David Kim’s personal insights and detailed instructions for every passage—not to be missed! —Marin Alsop     Chief Conductor     Vienna Radio Orchestra, Ravinia Festival   The Audition Method for Violin is for aspiring and established violinists looking to win orchestral auditions. This book can be used throughout the entire process of preparing for an audition, including at the audition itself. In this volume, David Kim, concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, provides standard violin audition excerpts in three versions: the excerpt as it appears in the score, a fully annotated version, and a sparsely annotated version to use in the audition. All annotations are made in blue ink for ease of reading. Kim provides detailed instructions for preparing each excerpt as well as an insightful Q & A in which he discusses the ins and outs of auditioning and offers musical and technical advice for violinists. The Audition Method for Violin, the second book in a series co-created by Mark Nuccio and Benjamin Baron, is an invaluable aid that will transform and improve the entire audition experience. Repertoire: Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1, No. 3, and No. 9, Brahms: Symphonies No. 2 and No. 4, Debussy: La Mer, Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozart: Symphony No. 39, Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Schubert: Symphony No. 2, Schumann: Symphony No. 2, Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, R. Strauss: Don Juan David Kim has been concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999, and he regularly performs as a soloist with the orchestra, performs recitals, and engages in teaching residencies every year. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and was awarded honorary doctorates from Eastern University and Dickinson College.

SKU: FG.55011-637-5

This collection of performing pieces for violin and piano is a supplement to the Colourstrings Violin ABC Book G2: Third Position and can be used individually as a repertoire book as well. The volume G of the Colourstrings Violin ACB tutors by Geza Szilvay studies every position of the violin in a separate volume. It offers art-pedagogical material in order to read confidently in the positions, to master the shifting movements and to understand why and when to use a particular position. Piano accompaniments of this publication are included in Colourstrings Violin ABC: Piano accompaniments for the books G1, G2 & G2 supplement (ISMN 9790550116467).

SKU: FG.55011-595-8

The volume G of the popular Colourstrings violin tutors by Geza Szilvay studies every position of the violin in a separate volume: G1 the second position, G2 the third position, G3 the fourth position, G4 the fifth position and the last one, G5, the high positions (sixth, seventh, eighth). These books form an all-embracing, rich collection of shifting exercises, position playing studies, excerpts from the literature, chamber music (mainly duos), and performing pieces, piano accompaniment offered as a separate publication (9790550116467). The extensive Book G2 - Third position (9790550115958) follows the key principles of Colourstrings methodology - the use of natural harmonics for instance - but it can be fully utilized also without any previous use or knowledge about the Colourstrings method. The performance pieces are a welcome enlargement in the syllabus. A separate collection, Colourstrings Violin ABC: Performing pieces for Violin in the First Three Positions (supplement for the book G2) (9790550116375), completes the carefully hand-picked repertoire from four centuries.