Violin Classics: Violin: Instrumental Album

A compendium of classic solos for the Violin. This expansive volume contains the great masterpieces of the world's foremost composers. Over 50 favourite Violin solos with full Piano accompaniment and a separate matching solo partfor the violinist. Carefully selected to provide a lifetime of playing pleasure for every performer.

Famous Classical Pieces for Violin-Violin Favorites Classics is a wonderful collection of famous classical pieces for Solo Violin. These pieces are composed by a variety of composers from J.S. Bach to Debussy and are most enjoyable to play.The accompanying CD contains audio tracks of the piano accompaniments to the pieces presented in this book so you have your own accompanist when practicing and performing these pieces. The accompaniment was recorded by pianist Achim Brochhausen.

Six Country Dances is an anthology of tunes from Playford’s ‘The English Dancing Master’ selected and arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett. Playford’s collection was first published in 1651 and contained 535 popular tunes for country dancing. Richard Rodney Bennett’s skilful and inspired arrangements are perfect for intermediate standard players adding as they do a contemporary slant to these classics of the English folk repertoire. This edition is for Violin and Piano.

This book contains 16 classical melodies known throughout the world arranged by Colin Cowles and others for Violin. Book and CD.

A selection of ten classical favourites arranged with you as the soloist! A diverse selection of classical themes from JS Bach and Handel to Dvorak and Tchaikovsky have all been carefully arranged for the solo Violin. Theaccompanying CD features a full set of specially recorded backing tracks that are ideal for both rehearsal and for solo concert performance. Grab the opportunity to step into the spotlight as the star soloist with thisdelightful selection of melodies!

This is an exceptional collection of ten original études by Aaron Minsky. First published to international acclaim as Ten American Cello Etudes these captivating pieces are now available to violinists in this adaptation by editors Daryl Silberman and Danny Seidenberg. For intermediate to advanced players these dynamic and lively études are equally suited to performance and study.Unique entertaining piecesA variety of contemporary styles including Latin Rock and Roll Blues and moreMusical depictions of American places activities and moodsTechnical challenges such as harmonics left-hand pizzicato and doublestoppingUseful fingering and bowing suggestionsAaron MinskyAaron Minsky began his career as a rock guitarist and then went on to study the cello with established teachers from Juilliard and elsewhere obtaining a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He has performed with orchestras around the world and on radio and television. Minsky is also an award-winning composer with over a dozen works published by Oxford University Press. He has premiered his original music at the First World Cello Congress the American Cello Congress and the New Directions Cello Festival. Selections from his published collections are now considered standard repertoire appearing in the curriculums of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and the American String Teachers Association. Particularly known for bridging the gap between classical and popular music for cello Minsky founded the Von Cello Band the first cello-fronted rock power trio which features a unique blend of hard alternative and jam rock.

A violin method for children age four and older-The second volume already presents classical Violin duets. The child’s knowledge and technique is expanded by dotted rhythms sixteenths notes and first double stops. And here is the most revolutionary aspect of the method: different finger patterns can be connected and combined to create any major and minor scale without the use of open strings. This creates the ability to practice scales in any position often within the first year of playing!With this skill songs learned in first position are easily transposed to other keys and higher position. Coupled with beginning shifting exercises this sets a foundation for an early virtuoso technique notavailable in any other method.The authors:The original German Violin method was first published in 1976. The author Egon Sassmannshaus is one of the most experienced and renowned Violin pedagogues in Germany.For the new English edition his son Kurt Sassmannshaus worked as co-author and adapted his father’s successful method for English-speaking children.The combined knowledge and experience of father and son make the four volumes of the Sassmannshaus Tradition the most thoroughly researched and thought-through beginner Violin method in the world.The second volume already presents classical Violin duets. The child’s knowledge and technique is expanded by dotted rhythms sixteenths notes and first double stops. And here is the most revolutionary aspect of the method: different finger patterns can be connected and combined to create any major and minor scale without the use of open strings. This creates the ability to practice scales in any position often within the first year of playing!With this skill songs learned in first position are easily transposed to other keys and higher position. Coupled with beginning shifting exercises this sets a foundation for an early virtuoso technique not available in any other method.The authors:The original German Violin method was first published in 1976. The author Egon Sassmannshaus is one of the most experienced and renowned violin pedagogues in Germany.For the new English edition his son Kurt Sassmannshaus worked as co-author and

Violin Sonata was commissioned by the Carnegie Hall in New York as part of its centennial celebrations in 1991 and first performed on 3rd February of that year by Michelle Makarski and Brent McMunn. It is arelatively diffident three movement work exploring heavy tortuous sentiments without becoming overpowering. The Piano part sets up a series of repeating ostinati with some interesting jazz influences and chord progressions which the Violin part cleverly plays against. Anthony Davis (b. 1951) is an American composer and pianist. His recordings and compositions cover both jazz and modern classical styles but he is best known for hismodern political operas such as X based on the life of Malcolm X.

Wonderful World of Tchaikovsky for Violin and Piano-Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s works included symphonies concertos operas ballets chamber music and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy. Some of these are among the most populartheatrical music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally which he bolstered with appearances as a guest conductor later in his career in Europe and theUnited States.Arranged by Andrew Moore for intermediate level Violin and Piano The Wonderful World Of Tchaikovsky includes Barcarolle Daydream Love theme from Romeo andJuliet Old French song Tears Theme from second movement of Symphony No 5 and Waltz from Swan Lake.