Violin Play-Along Volume 56-The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music listen to the demonstration tracks to hear how the Violin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The purchase price includes online access to audio for download or streaming. This volume features eight classics from the musical The Sound Of Music: Climb Ev'ry Mountain Do-Re-Mi Edelweiss Maria My Favorite Things Sixteen Going on Seventeen Something Good The Sound of Music.

Instrumental Play-Along-Nine songs from the world-famous film and stage musical have been carefully arranged for the Violin soloist complete with a set of full band backing tracks.With such familiar and memorable melodies as Edelweiss and My Favorite Things The Sound Of Music offers a world of music that you and you audience will love. What's more the specially recorded accompaniments will really transform your performance!

Spielend for two violins was written during the summer and early autumn of 2003 and is based on the idea of the two instruments not only playing the instruments but also playing in the sense of sport i.e. playing their themes off against each other and playing with the musical material. There are times for instance when they seem to be having a contest to see who can finish the themes first or who can divert the other’s attention to a new texture or rhythm. The title the German word for 'playing' also refers in a way to the composer himself exploring the themes harmonies and rhythms - particularly notable in this respect is the large central slow section which contraststwo altered reminiscences of the Violin Sonata of Poulenc (a composer whose music is very dear to me) with the gradual expansion of a fugue from two parts to eight (four in each violin). Fugue after all is in a sense an example of a composer making sport however seriously with the themes.So the work is a kind of extended musical pun lasting about fifteen minutes in all and being performed without a break. Though the central section is slow the outer ones are quick and energetic emphasizing especially the idea of activity and vigour - the ending however may catch the unwary listener by surprise.The first performance was given by Philippa Mo and Peter Sheppard Skærved in Leighton House London on 7th May 2004.'John McCabe's new 'Spielend' strikes me as a miniature masterpiece: a highly charged 15-minute piece in which the violins chase or echo each other in a thousand different ways including a fugure in which as with Bach two instruments seemed to suggest a dozen voices.'            - Richard Morrison The Times 11/05/2004

Cool Christmas favourites arranged for violin with CD backing track - a piano accompaniment score is also included. Arranged in a variety of jazz blues and rock styles by Richard Kershaw.