Concert Repertoire for Violin

Concerto no. 24 (Viotti)-Parisian violinist Georges Catherine (1872-1958) compiles an exciting collection for the Violin repertoire. The first solo from Viotti's Concerto No. 24 is clearly printed with a helpful key of unusual techniques. Viotti (1755-1824) was an Italian Violin virtuoso. He composed a significant 29 concertos for the Violin which remain popular in the advanced violinist's repertoire. The Violin solo line of Concerto No. 24 makes use of extended techniques including harmonics bow techniques articulations and hand positions. Catherine's series  Premiers Solos Extraits De ConcertosClassiques provides essential access to significant repertoire of the Violin preparing advanced violinists for the major concertos.

Written in the year 1775, Mozart's lively violin concerti manifest the young composer's astonishing maturity and command of his craft. An incredible fluency of musical speech ? richness of texture and sheer beauty of melodic line pervade this music (Veims, The Concertos). Indeed, the concerti are the composer's earliest compositions that have maintained a secure position in the world's repertoire. Also a staple of the concert hall is the Sinfonia Concertante, K.364, composed in 1779, and scored for violin, viola, and orchestra. Undoubtedly the most significant work Mozart composed that year, the piece is distinguished by its symphonic sweep, advanced harmonies, and the beautiful slow movement, among Mozart's most moving creations. Now all six masterpieces are available in this convenient, inexpensive edition.

Bärenreiter's Easy Concertos is a new series of the most popular short concertos for violinists who want to begin performing in public. The series begins with works by the composers Rieding Seitz and Vivaldi which are clear favourites amongst the first solo concertos played.The editions include a solo Violin part and a Piano reduction for the accompanist. The series is edited by Kurt Sassmannshaus the internationally renowned Violin teacher and co-author of the Sassmannshaus Violin school tradition. His forewords introduce these little gems and include tips to ensure successful first concerts.These volumes form an ideal continuation of theSassmannshaus school editions and can be used in parallel from volume three onwards: They can also be used to supplement any Violin method. This series will be continued and will introduce students to more demanding repertoire with an increasing level of difficulty.

Bärenreiter's Easy Concertos is a new series of the most popular short concertos for violinists who want to begin performing in public. The series begins with works by the composers Rieding Seitz and Vivaldi which are clear favourites amongst the first solo concertos played.The editions include a solo Violin part and a Piano reduction for the accompanist. The series is edited by Kurt Sassmannshaus the internationally renowned Violin teacher and co-author of the Sassmannshaus Violin school tradition. His forewords introduce these little gems and include tips to ensure successful first concerts.These volumes form an ideal continuation of theSassmannshaus school editions and can be used in parallel from volume three onwards: They can also be used to supplement any Violin method. This series will be continued and will introduce students to more demanding repertoire with an increasing level of difficulty.

Sir Edward Elgar was an English composer many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations the Pomp and Circumstance Marches concertos for Violin and Cello and two symphonies. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.Composed in 1892  Etudes Caracteristiques For Violin Op.24 is dedicated to the preeminent Hungarian Jewish Violin virtuoso and Elgar’s former Violin teacher between 1877-1878 Adolphe Pollitzer. Pollitzerbelieved that as a violinist Elgar had the potential to be one of the leading soloists in the country but Elgar himself having heard leading virtuosi at London concerts felt his own Violin playing lacked a full enough tone and he abandoned his ambitions to be a soloist.

Duets 1 to 25 of Bartok's celebrated set for two Violins that exhibit all the hallmarks of the composer's love of Hungarian folk music. All the duets are concise and straight-forward to play making this ideal material for two confident Violin students and an excellent resource for some entertaining and thought-provoking concert repertoire. Arranged in order of progressive difficulty each melody is derived from a peasant folktune and may be performed in any order or combination.

Konzert a-moll BWV 1041 und E-dur BWV 1042. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Study score format 22. 5 x 16. 5cm Today the three Violin concertos, BWV 1041–3, are among Johann Sebastian Bach ’s best known and most popular instrumental works and enjoy a permanent place in the concert repertoire. This Urtext edition is based in the New Bach Edition. The revised Violin and Piano reduction includes an Urtext solo part and a solo part with bowing, fingering and comments on performance by Andrew Manze. Full score and performance material, Violin and Piano reduction and study score of BWV1041-1042 (TP269) available for sale./ Répertoire / Partition de Poche

Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2054 Violin and Piano-Friedrich Seitz’s complete set Pupil’s Concertos Nos.1-5 for Violin and Piano. This fabulous inclusive volume has been accurately edited and fingered by Philipp Mittell. These terrific post-romantic concerti are full ofpractical instructional usage and melodic joy to encourage and inspire younger players students or pianists who enjoy the late Romantic repertoire.

Technique Flies High! is an exciting book of new performance studies for the intermediate to advanced level of violinist. In using baroque romantic contemporary and folk styles these studies makes these studies ideal for unaacompanied concert repertoire. The book includes practice and performance tips to guide the student and outlines the technical and musical goals. The grade standard is approximately 6-8.

The Polish violin maestro, Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880), wrote most of his works for himself and performed them on his worldwide concert tours. This edition contains a selection of his most beautiful pieces. / Violon Et Piano

2me Polonaise brillante pour violon avec acompagnement de piano op.21Henryk Wieniawski wrote only two polonaises. The first one, op. 4 in D minor, is one of his youthful works; the other, op. 21 in A major, is one of the last works he composed. Moreover, H. Wieniawski is the co-author of another polonaise, op. 8, for violin and piano, which he wrote with his brother Józef Wieniawski, a pianist. The latter polonaise, like the Polonaise in D minor op. 4, is also a youthful composition (1852). The polonaise as a genre, therefore, does not occupy much space in Wieniawskis heritage. Nonetheless, both polonaises, in D minor and A major, constitute an essential part of his artistic inheritance. Likewise, both polonaises had been composed in two versions: for violin and orchestra, and for violin and piano. The Polonaise in A major was completed in 1870. It is not known precisely which of the versions, the one with the piano, or the one with the orchestra first came into being. It was the version with orchestra that the composer performed for the first time on 17 March 1870, in the Grand Theatre in St. Petersburg. But merely two months later he performed the Polonaise in Warsaw, accompanied by his brother Józef at the piano. It is quite possible that Wieniawski had already performed this version of the Polonaise. It is certain, nonetheless, that both versions either appeared simultaneously, or one was composed shortly after the other. From its first public performance until the end of his concert career, Wieniawski often included this Polonaise in his concert repertoire, playing one version or another, the choice depending on the needs and circumstances. Just to mention one occasion, he played the orchestral version during a concert tour of Sweden in 1870, when he dedicated and presented a manuscript of this piece to King Charles XV of Sweden. The dedication, however, was changed in print, and both versions were eventually dedicated to François van Hal. Both versions were published simultaneously, by Schott Publishers in Mainz, with the same plate number, though the orchestral version appeared only in parts, which was a common practice in those days. The piece was most probably not published earlier than 18751. The Polonaise was praised by the critics. The reviews reported that it was a magnificent piece2, and this opinion was shared by later critical reviews, both Russian and West European. The Polonaise remained popular after the composer had died, which is evident from the number of later editions of the piece (more than ten) issued by different publishers, mostly German, and prepared by different editors. In Poland, the Polonaise was published twice after the Second World War. All the editions introduced some more or less significant changes into the text, mostly concerning performance indications, but in a sense blurring the composers intentions. All those changes were pertinent to the violin and piano version, and it was mostly in this form that the piece appeared in concert and teaching repertoires. The performances with an orchestra were much more seldom which was, among other factors, due to limited availability of the orchestral version, as it had never been published again after the first edition, until now. The Polonaise in A major was composed approximately at the same time as the Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor3. This convergence in time had influenced a certain similarity with regard to both composition and technical means, and also to the themes. In particular, the similarity becomes quite obvious in the second theme of the Allegro in the Concerto, and in the theme of the Polonaise. The Polonaise in A major is also in a certain way similar to the first Polonaise (in D minor), the motifs of the themes in both polonaises are alike. However, both pieces differ in style. The Polonaise in D minor shows the composers fascination with technical writing. Wieniawski makes the most of double-stops, chords, and all other sophisticated virtuoso techniques. The Polonaise in A major, written 18 years later, is much more mature. Although it is a virtuosic piece as well, the techniques used are somewhat more limited and subordinated to the expression. The virtuoso character of this piece is more fragile, much closer to the brillant style. At the same time, the Polonaise is typical of Wieniawskis violin playing technique. Here the composer uses the means regarded by his contemporaries to be typical of him, e.g., long staccato fragments played with one bow. The Polonaise is a concert piece in one movement extended form with a considerably abbreviated return of the first section at the end. The middle section is contrasting in character, due to the modulation to F major, change of tempo (meno mosso) and the reduction in the number of instruments (in the orchestral version). All the sections show thematic similarity. The first section, too, consists of three subsections, including a contrasting middle subsection (in E major). Zofia Chechli?ska Footnotes 1. See The Critical Commentary, p. ' and onward. 2. See V. Grigoriev, Henryk Wieniawski. ?ycie i twórczo??. [Life and Work] Warszawa - Pozna? 1986, p. 184. 3. The first version of the Concerto No. 2 in D minor was completed in 1862, but in 1870, i.e., not until the Polonaise in A major was completed, Wieniawski had been working on the Concerto and implemented quite a few changes.Publisher: PWM/Towarzystwo Muzyczne im. Henryka Wieniawskiego w PoznaniuSeries: Henryk Wieniawski - Complete WorksCover: softbackNr ISMN: 979-0-2740-0753-9Number of pages: 34 8Format: N4 stoj. 235x305Language version of text: pol., Eng.

Red Hot Violin is an exciting new series of graded performance repertoire with a difference featuring sizzling arrangements of contemporary show-stoppers for intermediate violin with piano. With pieces in a wide variety of styles violinists of all ages will enjoy showing off these sparkling takes on popular favourites. They’re perfect for inspiring students as a refreshing change from exam repertoire and would go down a storm at any concert or recital. Arranger and composer Rachel Jennings has been playing the violin since the age of six studying with Susan Sheppard and Jean Harvey and theory with Jonathan Rathbone. She runs a private teachingstudio in Nottingham.The A Team; Canarios; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Dream A Little Dream Of Me; I Wanna Be Like You; If Only I Had A Brain; One Day Like This; Sleigh Ride; Summer Nights.