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
To this day, Pierre Rode's “Caprices” are a milestone in every violinist's education conservatory level. This Urtext edition offers detailed text regarding source material and historical
These 36 duos for two violins were designed for developing learners and include original manuscript photos and commentary. Taken from Louis Spohr's violin tutor, a collection of methods and exercises
Advanced Scale Studies is intended to provide players-students, teachers and young professionals-with an organized method of practicing a scale system that includes a complete set of scales,
Amore Scaduto (roughly translated "Broken Love") borrows its title from a romance novel that composer Lee Hyla saw at a newsstand in Rome in the autumn of 2004. This brief duo for violin and cello
This work for violin and piano is a play on the words "suite" and "bittersweet." Each of the four movements is based on a Yiddish folk song, translated as On the Road; My Resting Place; Black
The awardee of two Guggenheim fellowships, Julia Perry studied composition with Luigi Dallapiccola and Nadia Boulanger, and conducted her works on a tour throughout Europe with the Vienna Philharmonic and
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
The Viennese Jakob Dont is considered one of the most important violin pedagogues of the nineteenth century and wrote numerous study pieces that are indispensable classics of the pedagogical literature for
Currently at the pinnacle of her remarkable career, three-time Grammy award winning concert violinist Hilary Hahn has assembled her collection of favorite encores, all commissioned by Ms. Hahn. Engaging 26
Exactly 300 years after Bach completed his unique cosmos of the Sei Solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato, Kolja Lessing is presenting a collection, rich in discovery, of also 6 solo violin works inspired
Paganini's Inno patriottico con variazioni for solo violin M.S. 81 is a composition dating back to the period between 1796 and 1800. There is not very much background material regarding the piece: the only
Antonio Vivaldi’s twelve concertos op. 4 known by the name of “La Stravaganza” were first mentioned as a collection of “Concerti a 4” in the 1711 Foreword of
Nocturne (Il Campanello di Notte) was designed for advanced students and professionals alike. The performer should drive the composition relentlessly forward in an agitated manner, all the while
Thematic variations for piano and string trio cast in five movements: Ein Ding; Kinderspott; Duett für Vier; Ruhig and Die Wolfsjungen. The idea behind the work stems from a familiar
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
Polaris, otherwise known as the North Star, is one of the brightest stars in our sky. This piece is a dramatic ride through the imagination, from wondrous and intimate to heavy and percussive. Polaris
Edmund Severn (1862–1942) was an American composer and violinist. Born in England, he studied in various cities including Berlin and composed works for unaccompanied violin, orchestra and string
Prayer originated as an interlude for flute and piano in my choral setting of Psalm 19, Requiem, written in memory of Marie Mountain Clark. She was a friend and former principal flute in
This opening movement of Bach's Partita for Solo Violin in E Major, written in 1720, inspired Bach to create the Sinfonia movement for his 1731 Cantata. Bach used the organ to play the
A quality revision faithfully reconstructed, according to the autograph manuscript, with suggestions for interpretation and fingering by the eminent violinist and teacher Rodolfo Lipizer. Preface and
Written in 1896 during a stay of several months in Egypt, Saint-Saens began the main themes of all four movements as well as the canonic trio in Luxor and Aswan. The sonata was then completed on the Nile