Viola Variations

Paganini's Variations on the G String have been skilfully transcribed for Viola with Piano accompaniment by Alan Arnold. This arrangement will provide the advancing Violist with an enjoyable challenge.The solo Viola part is also included on a separate insert.

The Art Of Bowing consists of Fifty Variations on a Gavottte by Corelli by Guiseppi Tartini. As excercises they test and improve bowing technique and have been adapted for Viola by Alan Arnold.

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Schubert adapta cinq de ses nombreux lieder sous forme de pièces instrumentales. Ainsi, la mélodie de «La Truite», lied composé en 1817, lui servit-elle de thème pour les variations de son quintette pour piano, violon, alto, violoncelle et contrebasse D 667 qui reste l’une des oeuvres les plus populaires de toute la musique de chambre. La tonalité solaire de la pièce – beaucoup plus gaie que les autres oeuvres de musique de chambre de Schubert – semble faire écho au bonheur de l’été 1819. Schubert composa cette pièce à 22 ans alors qu’il venait de passer l’été en compagnie agréable à Steyr, en Haute-Autriche. La présente édition Urtext se conforme pour l’essentiel à la premièreédition viennoise, vraisemblablement la version originale du manuscrit autographe aujourd’hui disparu. Elle prend également en compte l’unique source manuscrite de cette oeuvre, une copie réalisée par un ami de Schubert, Albert Stadler. Les musiciens apprécieront certainement la disposition optimale des tournes! / Partition brochée / Date parution : 1905-06-28/ Répertoire / Quintette avec Piano

Béla Bartók composed his 44 Violin Duos in 1931, at the urging of the German violin pedagogue Erich Doflein. With two exceptions, all the pieces are based on original folk music themes, most of which the composer himself collected in the course of his numerous collecting trips to the Carpathian Basin and in Algeria. Although conceived as parts of a pedagogically motivated set, these little pieces are highly effective in concert performance as well. The viola transcriptions follow Bartóks original faithfully. / 2 Altos

For Viola and Piano this is the composer's first opused work. Premiered at the Wigmore Hall in July 1959 by Cecil Aronowitz and Margaret Kitchen.Wood: In 1957 I knew I had newly discovered the music of Schoenberg and hispupils and I knew at once that they were to show me the way forward for my music; as indeed they have ever since. The revelation was primarily an emotional experience for me and however imperfectly their influence wasreceived it was obviously reflected in the all-out chromaticism (new for me then) in the many chains of twelve notes or lesser chromatic formations (which do not here amount to serial working and have only rarely done sosince) in the characteristic harmonic and rhythmic formations the wide and sometimes angular intervals of the melodies and in general the introverted romanticism. Anyway I knew then that this was the sort of music that Ihenceforth would want to write and so I called these Variations my Opus One.The declamatory Introduction leads into the Theme heard on the viola. Six Variations follow of which No.3 is the most violent and No.4 the mostsustainedly lyrical. The recitative-like sixth variation leads into the Finale a more extended movement. The Theme returning on the piano leads to a climax at which there is a citation from Beethoven’s C minor Variations forpiano. Then their characteristics sequence of chords is heard on the piano as an accompaniment to the final statement of my own theme on the viola in the closing bars of the work.

Altistes savent Garth Knox en tant qu'auteur de Viola Spaces (ED 20520), le recueil révolutionnaire des techniques modernes de lecture sur l'alto. Dans cette édition, il les applique à des variations sur le célèbre 'Folies Espagne' par les Français viole de gambe Marin Marais virtuose. Chaque variation est dédié à une certaine technique, telles que la génération d'harmoniques, quarts de tons, glissando, vibrato et d'autres.La pièce est parfaitement adapté à la fois pour les cours et pour les concerts. Interprètes et auditeurs vont en profiter.Garth Knox est l'un des altistes les plus distingués de sa génération. Pendant de nombreuses années, il a été membre du Quatuor Arditti. Aujourd'hui, il donne des concerts et des leçons partout dans le monde tout en étant toujours l'interprétation d'oeuvres de musique contemporaine. / 4 Altos

Bridge’s early works those written before the first World War were more late Romantic in style warmly expansive than his mature works. The Lament for Two Violas was written for himself and Lionel Tertis to perform at Wigmore Hall in March 1912. There were originally two pieces Caprice and Lament of which the first has been lost. Paul Hindmarsh has edited this sheet music from sketches and drafts.It is a deeply felt work interweaving the near-human Voices of the Violas into a work that is more thoughtful than grief-stricken yet no less effective for that.British composer Frank Bridge was active in the early decades of the 20th century and was a highly respectedconductor violist and teacher his sole composition student having been Benjamin Britten. Britten honoured his former teacher in his work Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge based on a theme from one of Bridge’s pieces for String quartet.