Sarasate's concert career began at age 17 after he was awarded the coveted Premier Prix from the Paris Conservatoire for both violin and composition. After his London debut, playwright and music critic
64 Musical Studies for Saxophone is a compendium of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic-era masterpieces arranged for saxophone. Written to serve as a student primer to the Ferling
Edited by Endre Granat. Fingerings and bowings by Jascha Heifetz. For violin & orchestra. Urtext Edition. Preface by the editor. Facsimile plates. Heifetz premiered Korngold's Concerto in 1947. This
Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen had its first performance in Paris in 1875. In the audience was 17-year-old Hungarian violin virtuoso and budding composer Jeno Hubay. After the performance, Hubay started
When the great Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe tried to commission a violin concerto, Chausson declined and suggested a one-movement work, Poème, Op 25. (1896). The premiere took
A collection of eight piano classics by Frederic Chopin and Claude Debussy, masterfully
Also known as Variations on a Theme of Corelli, this book is widely considered the first great method for violin. Aside from being invaluable to the development of technique, the variations, which
Two works by Paganini: La Campanella and Moto Perpetuo.
Wieniawski's specialties as violin virtuoso are represented in both the Capriccio-Valse and the Variations on an Original Theme. Technical demands include sustaining triple
Critical edition with detailed performance notes by Charles Neidich.
Originally, Camille Saint-Saëns created this work for piano in 1877 calling it Etude en form de Valse, Op.52/6. In 1901, Eugene Ysaye reworked this piece for violin and piano and published it as