With background notes and performance suggestions, Martin Tourish introduces musicians to the world of Celtic music. The selected pieces span three centuries of music-making in Ireland, Scotland, Wales,

James Rae provides 18 performance opportunities for very beginning flute. The first piece, Opening Fanfare, is built upon a single note with few notes introduced in successive pieces in standard

18 very easy pieces are designed to "take the younger beginner from day one to grade one," as Rae says. In fact, the very first piece, Opening Fanfare, uses a single note, focusing instead on

 It is a testament to Rae’s craft that he can compose a dozen pieces for beginning clarinetists and

For the clarinettist of intermediate skills, Rae has chosen 10 works from Brahms as an introduction to this important composer. Classic pieces such as May Night, Cradle Song, Love Song and

Includes a wide range of much-loved Russian repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries originating from opera and ballet to instrumental and piano pieces, these compositions are arranged as miniatures for

Fereshteh Rahbari continues his presentation of flute repertoire with Duos 1, 25 easy to intermediate duets from Handel and Haydn to Bartok and modern day composers. Flutists of moderate skills

Arranger Gisler-Haase finds that vocal music often lends itself well to the flute, since both are breath-dependent. For pedagogic use in flute ensemble classes, she turns to choral music of the Renaissance

The successor to My First Play-Alongs for Flute, Easy Play-Alongs for flute offers 16 approachable arrangements in easy to moderately difficult levels, with the opportunity to listen, then

The virtuosic Carmen Fantasy is well known to flutists as an artistic mountain to climb. Demanding of a range of polished skills, the Fantaisie brilliante uses excerpts from Bizet's

These challenging and unusual concert pieces for the more advanced violinist have been performed with great success by Aleksey Igudesman himself. Recordings of Fasten Seat Belts are available from

Original, easy violin duets written by Aleksey Igudesman based on "fish" themes. Features original poems by the composer and original fish drawings from the legendary Sir Roger Moore (Former James

To aid his students, and flutists generally, Wiese has compiled a list of the usual audition excerpts along with some not normally required. He has pulled from a variety of sources - from required

Bartok, a self-made expert in regional folk music, had composed For Children for piano and it became a seminal publication in piano pedagogy. Arranger Siegfried Steinkogler was exposed to a guitar

These four atmospheric compositions for violin and piano were written at the intermediate level. They are suitable for both teaching material and recitals.

This selection of thirty pieces has been carefully compiled to include some of the most popular folk melodies and classical themes that everyone likes to play. The arrangements are intended for the