Par STEWART CRANFORD PAUL. This book celebrates the vibrant musical culture of Cape Breton Island. It gives a refreshing glimpse into a rooted, community-based, living tradition. Fiddle tunes from more than seventy-five contemporary composers are presented together with Scottish and Cape Breton music from earlier centuries. Compiled as a part of Cranford Publications Cape Breton Musical Heritage Series, this collection is presented to give recognition to The Cape Breton Fiddlers Association. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Canadian - / Recueil / Violon

Par BERTAND ELISE. J'ai composé cette Sonate pour violon seul Op.16, entre octobre 2021 et mai 2022, pour trois violonistes que j'admire et qui ont une grande importance pour moi. Le premier mouvement, dédié à Jacques Ghestem, s'inspire d'une sensation de liberté et d'un souffle spontané que j'ai ressentis en jouant Rhapsodie Musings d'Elliott Carter, issu des Four Lauds pour violon seul. Jacques Ghestem, investi tout au long de sa vie dans la mise en valeur de la musique contemporaine, m'a notamment transmis depuis mes dix ans (à travers de longues discussions mais aussi à travers sa pédagogie) sa vision de la musique et son goût pour la musique de notre temps, tout en partageant avec moi son univers intérieur empli de souvenirs et de création musicale. Il était ainsi bien naturel de composer pour lui ce premier mouvement, dont les spécificités harmoniques et instrumentales ont été imaginées pour son dédicataire. Le deuxième mouvement est composé pour David Grimal, violoniste que j'ai toujours admiré depuis mon enfance. Son originalité, sa liberté, ses interprétations fougueuses sur scène ont continué de m'émouvoir et de m'inspirer lorsque j'ai participé comme violoniste au sein de son orchestre Les Dissonances. C'est lors de son interprétation de L'Aurore, issue de la cinquième Sonate pour violon seul d'Ysaye, qu'il a donnée à la Philharmonie de Paris en janvier 2022, que j'ai eu l'idée de composer pour lui ce mouvement lent, suspendu et rhapsodique. Le finale est dédié à la violoniste Sarah Nemtanu, que j'ai rencontrée pour la première fois en septembre 2021 à Radio France, où elle enregistrait mon Divertimento Op.15 avec trois de ses collègues de l'Orchestre National de France. Cette rencontre fulgurante d'une journée, musicale et humaine, a été une vraie lumière en ce jour de septembre, un échange d'une vision de la vie et de la musique, où j'allais vers elle à travers mon écriture, tandis qu'elle allait vers moi avec son interprétation. Symbole pour moi d'amitié et d'estime, ma Sonate pour violon seul a été inspirée tout au long de la composition par ces trois dédicataires bienveillants et éclairants, qui ont guidé mon chemin et ont su apporter une lumière dans ma vie d'artiste interprète et compositrice. Elise Bertrand / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Violon

Par SAURET EMILE. Émile Sauret, violin virtuoso, teacher and composer, was admired by some of the greatest composers of his time, including Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Wagner, Grieg and Mahler. He gave numerous concerts with Liszt, Rubinstein, and Moszkowski, and often played duets with Sarasate. He is predominantly remembered for the fiendishly difficult cadenza he composed to Paganini?s first violin concerto. Sauret?s 24 Etudes Caprices for solo violin are a substantial virtuoso journey through every major and minor key. Written while he was a professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London, they are notable for the exceptional variety of filigree detail and variation in nuance, dynamic, fingering, bowing and phrasing, creating etudes far more substantial than is typical in this genre. Unavailable since their first publication early in the 20th century, the Etudes Caprices are edited by leading violinist and Sauret specialist, Nazrin Rashidova, who has made the first complete recording of the Etudes Caprices, performing them on Sauret?s own Stradivarius. Using the original Simrock edition as a basis, this edition supplements Sauret?s original bowings and fingerings with Rashidova?s own suggestions. An extensive preface gives further insights into performance and contextualizes the life of the composer. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Violon

Whitcomb Ed (Compiled). Par WHITCOMB ED. Canadian fiddle music receives the credit and recognition it deserves in this lively collection of tunes from virtually every province and ethnic group in Canada. Originally published in 1990, this project is the result of generous donations by numerous fiddlers and fans of fiddle music. In addition to the preservation and popularization of this folk music form, the contributors shared these common goals in this endeavor: composer recognition, folk music revitalization in Canada and abroad, acknowledgement of the violin and its own origins in the development of fiddle music and its place in Canadian society, note reading and chording, and to pay tribute to many great fiddlers. This revised edition features contributions of 200 of the best tunes from the first printing as well as 200 new tunes. They consist of hornpipes, strathspeys, polkas, waltzes, calypsos, reels, clogs, two-steps, jigs, airs, breakdowns, schottishes, marches, rags, and laments. A bibliography and the background of each composer is included. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Canadian - Songbooks / Recueil / Violon

L\'art et la technique du vibrato sur le violon et l\'alto. Par LIPIZER RODOLFO. Rodolfo Lipizer was an Italian violinist, composer, teacher, and orchestra director. He dedicated himself with passion to teaching and didactics, always looking for and applying the most valid, modern and effective solutions to technical and interpretational problems related to the violin. The art and the technique of the vibrato on the violin or viola is a systematized didactic of vibrato unique in the pedagogic literature for the left hand technique on the violin and viola. / Date parution : 2022-09-27/ Etude / Violon ou Alto

Par VOLANS KEVIN. Based on material from the South Africa-born composer?s 1997 Cello Concerto, this advanced-level solo piece creates the effect of two voices in dialogue. Its single movement is made up of a series of contrasting episodes in the manner of a set of variations and lasts around 10 minutes. This version of the piece was composed for violinist Darragh Morgan and first performed in 2021. / Date parution : 2022-04-01/ Répertoire / Violon

Wedgwood Blue a graceful dance was first written as an orchestral intermezzo in 1920. It remains one of the composer's most popular works still regularly performed and recorded today. It has been arranged for solo Violin with Piano accompaniment by the composer.Albert William Ketelbey (1875-1959) was a British composer pianist and conductor. He studied Piano at Trinity College of Music in London before branching out and earning a living as a composer and arranger. He became the foremost composer of cinema and light music between the wars so much so that he was hailed as ?Britain?s greatest living composer? in some circles.

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. The profound impression it makes on us is due in part to the sequence of variations on a death motif that seems to have been borrowed from the beginning of the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor. Written in 1890, it was commissioned by the publisher Novello for the Birmingham Music Festival and premiered there under the direction of the composer on 9 October 1891. For this performance, Dvorák used a copy of the score which he had personally examined and which later served as the engraver's copy. The Dvorák scholar Klaus Döge succeeded in tracking down its location and evaluating this important source for the first time. It contains the 'Fassung letzter Hand' and, moreover, offers valuable insights into Dvorák's conducting workshop. It served as the principal source for the Breitkopf Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Violon 2 (Partie Séparée)

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concertos: the Mozart expert Henrik Wiese edits the central work genre of Viennese classicism according to the current status of international Mozart research. Mozart wrote the Horn Concerto K. 417 - like the other works of this genre as well - for his horn-playing friend Joseph Leutgeb. The jokes which the composer made at Leutgeb's expense are wellknown. For example, he called the dedicatee a 'donkey” in the autograph, and, as Henrik Wiese evidences in his preface, Mozart also occasionally enjoyed a bit of tomfoolery with the soloist in the musical text as well. Otherwise the editor's task was anything but amusing. The main source - the autograph score - is incomplete: missing are the close of Movement I as well as the entire slow middle movement. For these two sections, Wiese used a copy of the score from the archive of the publisher Johann André. The unusual circumstance that Mozart generally left the horn part almost unmarked recurs in the Concerto K. 417 and was deliberately maintained in the Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Violon 2 (Partie Séparée)

Allerheiligentag V. Par LINJAMA JYRKI. The material for Jyrki Linjama's Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints' Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The first work in the cycle is a string trio (2007), the second a piece for orchestra (2009), and the fourth and fifth are solo works for viola da gamba (2018) and Sonata for violin solo (2019). The composer tells: 'The choice of topic and material was originally influenced by the place where the string trio would be premiered ? the old church on the island of Seili (Själö) in the Turku archipelago. The bleak history of the mental hospital on the island invited images of suffering and death. I got so attached to the fine, bleak melody that this series of works began to emerge.' Lasting 17 minutes, the sonata for solo violin has three movements, all of them embracing the folk choral material and Béla Bartók?s influence in different ways. It was premiered by Kaija Saarikettu at the Kaustinen Chamber Music Festival in 2020. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Violon

Tonalité : G-Moll - Op.: 117, 2 -. Par REGER MAX. The facsimile edition of Max Reger’s Präludium and Fugue in G minor op. 117, 2 is meant for music lovers and violinists alike. Music enthusiasts also treasure the strongly expressive musical handwriting of Reger, with its colorful remarks, as an example of graphic individuality. The four-page facsimile, which is inserted loosely in the accompanying text by Jürgen Schaarwächter, offers violinists the possibility to perform this work from 1909 directly from the autograph completed by the composer./ Répertoire / Violon

Par RODE PIERRE. with original fingering and bowing by the composer -additional markings and practical comments by Friedemann Eichhorn / Gertsch, Norbert / Répertoire / Violon Solo

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. The Violin Part for Vaughan Williams' Six Studies in English Folk Song, arranged by the composer as an alternative to the Cello. The piano accompaniment (Ref. H47) can be purchased separately./ Etude / Violon