Handel, Georg Friedrich: Air Variations (The Harmonious Blacksmith)

SKU: FH.VA6

ISBN 978-1-55440-568-8.

This groundbreaking series for viola offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring virtuoso. Representing all major style periods and a variety of genres, Viola Series, 2013 Edition offers all the music and tools needed to support a comprehensive course of study from the beginner to advanced levels. A rich and varied selection of music in each of these nine progressive volumes of repertoire appeals to violists of all ages. From the Preparatory Level through Level 8, students will be exposed to quality selections originally written for viola, fun arrangements of traditional fiddle and folk tunes, as well as contemporary pieces by notable composers such as Violet Archer, Carey Cheney, and Fritz Kriesler.
Concertos:
Concerto in B flat Major - Hoffmeister, Franz Anton arr. Alison A. Copland
- First Movement
Premier Solo, op. 77, no. 1 - Dancla, Charles
Concerto in C Major - Schmitt, Joseph arr. Bernhard Pauler
- First Movement
Sonatas:
Sonata in E Minor, HWV 375 - Handel, George Frideric arr. Harold Birston
- Second Movement
- Third Movement
Solo per alto viola (The Billiard Sonata) - Giardini, Felice arr. Christine Donkin
- Second Movement
- Third Movement
Sonata in B flat Major - Stamitz, Carl
- First Movement
Concert Repertoire:
Couplets de folies - Marais, Marin arr. Paul Doktor
Hebrew Melody No. 1 - Joachim, Joseph
Air with Variations (The Harmonious Blacksmith) - Handel, George Frideric arr. Watson Forbes
Orientale - Granados, Enrique arr. Christine Donkin
elegie, op. 44 - Glazunov, Aleksandr
Unaccompanied Repertoire:
Fantasia No. 1 in E flat Major, TWV 40:14 - Telemann, Georg Philipp
- First Movement
- Second Movement
Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 - Bach, Johann Sebastian
- First Movement: Prelude
- Second Movement: Gigue.

SKU: BT.DHP-1053845-140

English-German-French-Dutch.

This fantastic new work is set to become a classic in the trumpet repertoire. Each of its three contrasting movements can be played alone as shorter pieces or together as a mini concerto. The second movement is particularly interesting in the fact it is a fantasy in theme and variations form, based on a Handel minuet. A must for all trumpet players of an intermediate to advanced level.

Deel een van dit werk draait om twee contrasterende thema’s: het eerste is resoluut, het tweede lyrischer. Het tweede deel is een fantasie over een menuet van Händel. Het derde deel begint met een energiek thema, waarna een themamet een ander karakter volgt. De twee thema’s wisselen elkaar af, uitmondend in een cantabile. Het concerto eindigt met een reprise van de eerste twee thema’s.

In diesem dreisätzigen Werk verarbeitete Kees Schoonenbeek mehrere eigene Themen sowie ein Menuett von Händel. Ein Thema ist resolut, das nächste eher lyrisch, ein drittes sehr energisch. Aus der Gegenüberstellung, Weiterentwicklung und abwechselnden Wiederholung dieser Themen und Melodien ergeben sich interessante Kontraste, die das Evergreen Concerto zu einem wahren Evergreen machen, an dem sich das Publikum nie satt hören wird.

Evergreen Concerto s’articule autour d’un premier mouvement constitué de deux thèmes contrastants - l’un résolu, l’autre lyriquement mélodieux - d’une fantaisie libre sur un menuet de Georg Friedrich Haendel et d’un troisième mouvement qui développe deux entités thématiques progressant vers un charmant cantabile. Evergreen Concerto se conclut par un retour alterné des deux thèmes initiaux.