This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 of the most popular classical themes including Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod & Schubert) • Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) (Stözel) • Canon in D (Pachelbel) • Clair de Lune (Debussy) • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Txhaikovsky) • 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (“Serenade”) First Movement Excerpt (Mozart) • The Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov) • Funeral March of a Marionette (Gounod) • Für Elise (Beethoven) • Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie) • Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) • Lullaby (Brahms)• Minuet in G (Bach) • Ode to Joy (Beethoven) • Piano Sonata in C (Mozart) • Pie Jesu (Fauré) • Rondeau (Mouret) • Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) • Wedding March (Mendelssohn) • William Tell Overture (Rossini) and many more.

Quite early in his career Pablo De Sarasate produced a series of fantasies on themes from popular operas for solo Violin with Orchestral or Piano accompaniment. The appeal of the Carmen fantasy with which this collection opens has remained the most enduring but perhaps reflecting the varying fortunes with audiences of the operas themselves settings of Gounod?s Faust and Roméo et Juliette or Weber?s Der Freischütz are ready for reappraisal today as similarly exhilarating exercises in Romantic violin technique.As an example of Sarasate?s equally successful and more purely lyrical ?salon? style of composition his Rêverie Op.4 is alsoincluded here.

Bach for Violin contains a varied collection of 14 attractive and popular pieces arranged for upper-intermediate standard violinists (Grades 5-7) exploring a range of keys finger patterns styles and moods.The collection covers simpler dance movements and chorale melodies as well as the solo Gigue from the Partita in E major. Other popular pieces include arrangements of Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring and the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria. Each piece is accompanied by background footnotes explaining provenance and points of style.