Favourite opera themes in jazzy arrangements Well-known classical themes, arranged with jazz and pop elements, making opera fun and appealing for all ages! • Easy, jazzy arrangements of famous opera themes • Short, lively descriptions of the operas • For all lovers of 'crossover' between classical, jazz and pop music • Written improvisations as well as chord symbols for your own improvisations • Performance tracks of all pieces, played by live musicians • Backing tracks recorded in the studio for you to play along with • Piano accompaniments available as PDF files on the CD / Opéra-opérette / Recueil / Violon et Piano ad lib.

Well known for his style of bowing his splendid tone and the clearness of his execution French violinist teacher and composer Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) composed nineteen Violin concertos and forty operas during his life time and is perhaps best known for his 42 Études or Capriccios 1796. Born in Versailles Kreutzer was initially taught by his German father who was a musician in the royal chapel with later lessons from Anton Stamitz. He quickly rose to fame as a Violinist appearing as a soloist until 1810. In 1798 when at Vienna in the service of the French ambassador Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later King ofSweden and Norway) Kreutzer the made the aquaintance of Beethoven and became the dedicatee of his Violin Sonata No. 9 Op. 47 (1803). Kreutzer however never played the work declaring it unplayable and incomprehensible. From 1795 until 1826 Kreutzer taught at the Conservatoire de Paris where he became co-author of the Conservatoire's Violin method with Pierre Rode and Pierre Baillot. He was also leader of the Paris Opera for a time. This volume contains Kreutzer's 42 Études which are to this day considered fundamental studies for student Violinists.

World Famous Classicscontient seize mélodies mondialement célèbres, extraites du répertoire de la musique classique. Certaines mélodies vous sont familières, d'autres sont à découvrir à travers ce voyage dans l'histoire de la musique (Henri VIII, Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaïkovski, etc.) / [CD inclus - version intégrale + play-along]. / Violon / Partition + Cd

Par ADES THOMAS. This suite of exquisite portrait pieces for violin, clarinet, cello and piano was composed in 2005 and distils the essence of six numbers from Adès's astonishing opera The Tempest into purely instrumental form./ Répertoire / Clarinette, Piano, Violon et Violoncelle

Cette collection de 21 mélodies populaires a été soigneusement arrangée et classée d'enseignement attrayant répertoire pour jeunes violonistes. La familiarité de la matière va stimuler l'enthousiasme des élèves et d'encourager leur pratique. Les exigences techniques de la partie solo augmenter progressivement à la norme du Grade de Conseil associé I. Les accompagnements piano sont simples mais efficace et devrait être dans la gamme de la plupart des pianistes. Jerry Lanning est diplômé de la Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Il est un arrangeur largement expérimenté dans les domaines tant populaires et classiques, avec de nombreux arrangements publiés à son crédit. Il enseigne également (principalement le piano) à l'école de l'abbaye de Wycombe et Bradfield College. / Violon

Any violinist who hears the name Sitt nowadays will probably just think of the author of studies and exercises that have long been a familiar feature in instrumental lessons. Of course the Prague violinist, music teacher and composer Hans Sitt (1850-1922) made a significant impact on methods of violin teaching, but he also wrote a whole series of other works worth listening to: concertos for violin, viola and cello and chamber music for various combinations of instruments. Sitt studied the violin in Prague and was then appointed first as leader of the orchestra and then as musical director in Breslau (now called Wroc?aw).After posts as director of music in Prague, Chemnitz - where he championed the work of Smetana - and Nice, he was eventually appointed professor of violin, orchestral playing and score reading at the Leipzig Conservatoire from 1884-1921. Besides this he also played viola in the Brodsky Quartet, organised concerts and was conductor of the Bach Society. The composers Franco Alfano - who completed Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot- and Frederick Delius studied with Sitt, as did the conductor Václav Talich. Three Album Leaves op. 13 were also composed during his time in Leipzig, published by Bosworth and Co in 1894. Romanesca, #1 in that collection, is a pretty, slightly melancholy piece of music with romantic appeal that draws out lyrical and expressive playing and is thus eminently suitable for tuition purposes and concert performances. / Violon Et Piano

revised edition-Contents are: Study Points for Volume 2 * Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus (G.F. Handel) * Musette Gavotte II or the Musette from English Suite III in G Minor for Klavier BWV 808 (J.S. Bach) * Hunters' Chorus from 3rd Act of the opera Der Freischutz (C.M. von Weber) * Long Long Ago (T.H. Bayly) * Waltz Op. 39 No. 15 for Piano (J. Brahms) * Bourrée from Sonata in F Major for Oboe HHA IV/18 No. 8 (G.F. Handel) * The Two Grenadiers Die beiden Grenadier Op. 49 No. 1 for Voice and Piano (R. Schumann) * Theme from Witches' Dance (N. Paganini) * Gavotte from Mignon (A. Thomas) * Gavotte (J.B. Lully) * Minuet inG Wo0 10 No. 2 (L. van Beethoven) * Minuet from Sei Quintetti per Archi No. 11 Op. 11 No. 5 in E Major (L. Boccherini).

Two fantasies on the thematic fragments from the string quartets.-'- Two fantasies on the thematic fragments from the 9th & 3rd string quartets of Paisiello.Matthias Pintscher was born in Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia Germany in 1971 and studied composition with Giselher Klebe and Manfred Trojahn. Formative influences were his encounters with Hans Werner Henze who invited him to Montepulciano in 1991 and 1992 and with Helmut Lachenmann Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös. Awards include first prize in the Hitzacker Composition Competition (1992) the Rolf Liebermann Prize and the Opera Prize from the Körber Foundation Hamburg (1993 and 1996) the Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize (1999) Composition Prize from the Salzburg EasterFestival and the Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival (2000). In 2002 he was awarded the Hans Werner Henze Prize (Westphalian Music Prize). Pintscher first came to international attention with the opera Thomas Chatterton at the Semper Opera Dresden (1998) and later with his second opera L'espace dernier at the Opéra National de Paris (2004). He was composer-in-residence with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2002 the following seasons at the Konzerthaus Dortmund Lucerne Festival with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken at the Philharmonie Cologne and at the RSO Stuttgart . From 2010 onwards Pintscher is ?Artist-in-Association? at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra since 2014 Artist-in-residence at the Danish Radio Orchestra. As a conductor Matthias Pintscher works regularly with leading orchestras and ensembles in Europe and the USA. From 2007 to 2009 he was Professor of Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and 2010 to 2011 at the New York University. He is Music Director of the Ensemble intercontemporain and since the 2013 14 season. As of September 2014 he is Professor for composition at the Juilliard School of Music New York.

Violin-40 of the most memorable songs composed by the inimitable Andrew Lloyd Webber are gathered in this value-packed instrumental solo collection. Songs include: 'All I Ask of You' 'Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life)' 'Any Dream Will Do' 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' 'I Believe My Heart' 'I Don't Know How to Love Him' 'Love Changes Everything' 'Love Never Dies' 'Memory' 'No Matter What' 'The Phantom of the Opera' 'Pie Jesu' 'Starlight Express' 'Stick It to the Man' 'Tell Me on a Sunday' ''Til I Hear You Sing' 'Unexpected Song' 'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again' 'With One Look' and many more.

Georges Catherine (1872-1958) is best remembered as a prolific violinist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera. However he was also a prominent teacher and his Complete Study of the Violin has aided the development of Violin technique since its publication in 1948. The first volume Study of the Mechanism of the Bow considers all bow markings found in music and substantial notes on how to address each technique. Each bowing technique is accompanied by a sizeable exercise in order to practise and perfect the technique. Comprising 42 detailed bowing studies Study of the Mechanism of the Bow fromComplete Study of the Violin by Violin virtuoso Georges Catherine cannot be missed by aspiring players of the instrument.

Score-String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned in 1971 by the Julliard School for the Julliard String Quartet. It subdivides the ensemble into two duos which play contrasting movements both individually and at the same time exploring feelings of rivalry and cooperation. Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was a highly regarded American composer who continued writing innovative music into his 11th decade. His early influences included Charles Ives Gustav Holst Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger with whom he studied in Paris in the 1930s. He was known for always adapting and changing with the times and became more and more popular as his stature grew throughthe decades.

Three arrangements including Ave Verum Corpus and the Lacrimosa from the Requiem.During the year 1771 when Mozart was 15 years old he and his father Leopold were touring Italy which was at that time the most formidable citadel of the music world. In the following four years the young Mozart was received at the homes and villas of Italy's aristocracy. He met the most famous musicians of the time including Niccolo Piccinni operatic rival to Gluck and Padre Martini from whom he was to benefit from studies in counterpoint. He also met many noted male soprano singers and for one the celebrated Venanzio Rauzzini he wrote in 1773 the motet Exsultate Jubilate from whichcomes the well known Alleluia.At the end of his life only 19 years later in Vienna 1791 Mozart was very ill and working on a number of massive works such as the operas The Magic Flute and Titus also the Requiem. Titus was completed in 18 nerve-shattering days as it had to be performed in Prague in September 1791. At its premiere it was a complete flop. This affected the now overworked almost penniless composer's spirit and he returned to Vienna suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. Rest was denied him. The Magic Flute had to be finished for its premier on September 30th 1791. The task of the Requiem still faced him. In this weakened state Mozart thought that he was in fact writing his own requiem reading evil omens into the commissioning of the work. He thought someone had calculated the precise time of his death and was thus troubled with sombre thoughts. He completed the first two of the twelve parts. The next six parts were in an unfinished state and his manuscript ceased at the Lacrimosa. Süssmayer who was working closely with Mozart at the time was given the task of finishing the Requiem.Ave Verum Corpus is also one of his final works. It is a setting of an anonymous hymn written as a motet for Anton Stoll the choirmaster at Baden in June 1791.Mozart was a composer of great genius who

The Violinissimo series attempts to make the rich repertoire of five centuries of violin music accessible for lessons, concerts and private music-making. The anthology Serenade contains a selection of 36 intermediate arrangements for violin and piano which can be used for performance purposes to enlarge the educational standard repertoire and make it more interesting and may therefore be a constant companion of every advanced pupil in his/her lessons. / Violon Et Piano

'Classical Highlights' présente les pièces de performance les plus connus et les plus populaires du répertoire classique dans des arrangements pour violon et piano. Chaque violoniste à la recherche d'un classique populaire pour l'enseignement ou l'exécution fins trouverez ici un petit bijou. / Violon Et Piano