2me Polonaise brillante pour violon avec acompagnement de piano op.21 Henryk Wieniawski wrote only two polonaises. The first one, op. 4 in D minor, is one of his youthful works; the other, op. 21 in A major, is one of the last works he composed. Moreover, H. Wieniawski is the co-author of another polonaise, op. 8, for violin and piano, which he wrote with his brother Józef Wieniawski, a pianist. The latter polonaise, like the Polonaise in D minor op. 4, is also a youthful composition (1852). The polonaise as a genre, therefore, does not occupy much space in Wieniawskis heritage. Nonetheless, both polonaises, in D minor and A major, constitute an essential part of his artistic inheritance. Likewise, both polonaises had been composed in two versions: for violin and orchestra, and for violin and piano. The Polonaise in A major was completed in 1870. It is not known precisely which of the versions, the one with the piano, or the one with the orchestra first came into being. It was the version with orchestra that the composer performed for the first time on 17 March 1870, in the Grand Theatre in St. Petersburg. But merely two months later he performed the Polonaise in Warsaw, accompanied by his brother Józef at the piano. It is quite possible that Wieniawski had already performed this version of the Polonaise. It is certain, nonetheless, that both versions either appeared simultaneously, or one was composed shortly after the other. From its first public performance until the end of his concert career, Wieniawski often included this Polonaise in his concert repertoire, playing one version or another, the choice depending on the needs and circumstances. Just to mention one occasion, he played the orchestral version during a concert tour of Sweden in 1870, when he dedicated and presented a manuscript of this piece to King Charles XV of Sweden. The dedication, however, was changed in print, and both versions were eventually dedicated to François van Hal. Both versions were published simultaneously, by Schott Publishers in Mainz, with the same plate number, though the orchestral version appeared only in parts, which was a common practice in those days. The piece was most probably not published earlier than 18751. The Polonaise was praised by the critics. The reviews reported that it was a magnificent piece2, and this opinion was shared by later critical reviews, both Russian and West European. The Polonaise remained popular after the composer had died, which is evident from the number of later editions of the piece (more than ten) issued by different publishers, mostly German, and prepared by different editors. In Poland, the Polonaise was published twice after the Second World War. All the editions introduced some more or less significant changes into the text, mostly concerning performance indications, but in a sense blurring the composers intentions. All those changes were pertinent to the violin and piano version, and it was mostly in this form that the piece appeared in concert and teaching repertoires. The performances with an orchestra were much more seldom which was, among other factors, due to limited availability of the orchestral version, as it had never been published again after the first edition, until now. The Polonaise in A major was composed approximately at the same time as the Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor3. This convergence in time had influenced a certain similarity with regard to both composition and technical means, and also to the themes. In particular, the similarity becomes quite obvious in the second theme of the Allegro in the Concerto, and in the theme of the Polonaise. The Polonaise in A major is also in a certain way similar to the first Polonaise (in D minor), the motifs of the themes in both polonaises are alike. However, both pieces differ in style. The Polonaise in D minor shows the composers fascination with technical writing. Wieniawski makes the most of double-stops, chords, and all other sophisticated virtuoso techniques. The Polonaise in A major, written 18 years later, is much more mature. Although it is a virtuosic piece as well, the techniques used are somewhat more limited and subordinated to the expression. The virtuoso character of this piece is more fragile, much closer to the brillant style. At the same time, the Polonaise is typical of Wieniawskis violin playing technique. Here the composer uses the means regarded by his contemporaries to be typical of him, e.g., long staccato fragments played with one bow. The Polonaise is a concert piece in one movement extended form with a considerably abbreviated return of the first section at the end. The middle section is contrasting in character, due to the modulation to F major, change of tempo (meno mosso) and the reduction in the number of instruments (in the orchestral version). All the sections show thematic similarity. The first section, too, consists of three subsections, including a contrasting middle subsection (in E major). Zofia Chechlińska Footnotes 1. See The Critical Commentary, p. ? and onward. 2. See V. Grigoriev, Henryk Wieniawski. Życie i twórczość. [Life and Work] Warszawa - Poznań 1986, p. 184. 3. The first version of the Concerto No. 2 in D minor was completed in 1862, but in 1870, i.e., not until the Polonaise in A major was completed, Wieniawski had been working on the Concerto and implemented quite a few changes. Publisher: PWM/Towarzystwo Muzyczne im. Henryka Wieniawskiego w Poznaniu Series: Henryk Wieniawski - Complete Works Cover: softback Nr ISMN: 979-0-2740-0753-9 Number of pages: 34+8 Format: N4 stoj. 235x305 Language version of text: pol., Eng.

 Léo Marillier, jeune violoniste de grand talent, étudiant au Conservatoire de Paris mais déjà concertiste, manifeste également un vif intérêt pour l'écriture, Dans la ligne des paraphrases d'airs d'opéras qu'affectionnaient les virtuoses du 19ème siècle, il n'a pas craint de revisiter Don Giovanni et je peux témoigner du fait qu'il sait jouer lui-même sur scène les multiples difficultés techniques déposées sans prudence tout au long de la partition, C'est tout à l'honneur des éditions Delatour-France d'avoir accepté de publier cette première composition, en faisant le pari qu'elle sera suivie de beaucoup d'autres, Alexis Galpérine'Découvrant l'oeuvre de Liszt pendant l'été 2010, j'ai formé rapidement le projet d'en faire une transcription,Plutôt que de transporter les sortilèges du piano de cette oeuvre dans un duo violon-piano, j'ai essayé de donner un sens dramatique aux virtuosités : nervosité, excitation, humour, La version piano d'origine est d'une difficulté si magnifique qu'elle permet à très peu d'interprètes de laisser respirer leur jeu, notamment dans l'air du Champagne, Par conséquent, profitant de la nouvelle distribution violon-piano, j'ai multiplié les dialogues, les échanges qui aèrent la difficulté du jeu, tout en conservant, je l'espère, l'esprit lizstien, à savoir une alternance entre démonisme terrifiant et une simplicité d'évocation de messe de Mozart, Bien que ce soit une transcription, les rapports entre violon et piano sont finalement très rhapsodiques,Je me suis permis de faire des coupures par rapport à la version de piano uniquement quand les passages concernés servaient, dans la version originale, un but purement pianistique, Compte tenu du fait que la forme de l'oeuvre est unique - en fait un accelerando d'un quart d'heure -, et que j'ai cherché à lui donner un souffle différent des fantaisies opératiques déjà composées pour le violon, les parties violon et piano sont en symbiose, chacune participe du développement de l'autre,Pour ce faire, en termes de balance entre les deux instruments, il a fallu tout repenser que ce soit d'un point de vue dynamique, harmonique ou formel, Lors de la création en novembre 2011 pour le bicentenaire de la naissance de F, Liszt, au Ciurlionis Institut de Vilnius, à l'occasion d'une tournée en hommage au compositeur, je fus accompagné par la pianiste lituanienne Vaïva Purlyte,Et c'est, encouragé par mon professeur au CNSMDP, Alexis Galpérine, que j'ai présenté cette oeuvre aux Editions Delatour-France qui la fait paraître ce mois-ci,'Léo Marillier / Violon Et Piano

Par PEPIN CAMILLE. Autumn Rhythm est une pièce pour violon et piano. Créée à l'automne 2018, elle s'inspire du travail du peintre expressionniste abstrait Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) et en particulier de son all-over n°30 'Autumn Rhythm' (1950). En abandonnant pinceaux et chevalets, Pollock révolutionne l'art de la peinture avec ses 'drippings'. Pour réaliser sa série de all­over, il étale la toile à même le sol et y projette la peinture par éclaboussures, coulures, gouttelettes et fils entrelacés. Ainsi, différentes strates et enchevêtrements de lignes se superposent pour former des jeux de textures et créer du relief sur toute la surface d'une toile immense (sans jamais privilégier ni oublier aucune zone). Les all-over n'ont donc ni véritable début, ni véritable fin, l'oeil étant 'happé' à l'intérieur du tableau. Dans Autumn Rhythm, les lignes de peinture noire contrastent avec les tâches brunes, ocres et blanches - l'alternance de ces tâches claires et sombres crée des effets de lumière - les éclaboussures se chevauchent. C'est à la fois cette importance accordée à la texture, ces superpositions, le choix des tons, et ces paquets de fils entremêlés qui donnent à la toile son rythme prégnant et envoûtant. J'imagine alors un tourbillon aux couleurs d'automne, comme une forêt d'où des rais lumineux tenteraient de percer à travers les feuillages. C'est ce qui m'a inspirée pour cette oeuvre. D'un seul tenant, elle est conçue comme une fenêtre sur l'intérieur du tableau, comme si nous avions été aspirés dans ses entrailles. Violon et piano - indissociables - s'y entremêlent en différentes strates rythmiques et colorées pour créer diverses textures. Les modes de jeux utilisés (sul tasto, flautando, pizzicati main gauche et main droite, harmoniques, pédale du piano, etc...) ont un rôle important dans ces couches de couleurs, notamment afin d'en faire ressortir certains motifs mélodiques. Dès les premières mesures, le rythme est prégnant et fonctionne sur une 'boucle' répétée inlassablement. Le mouvement ne s'arrêtant jamais véritablement, il contribue à donner une sensation hypnotique et enivrante à cette pièce - la sensation d'avoir plongé au coeur de ce tourbillon automnal nimbé de lumière. Je profite de cette note pour remercier le concours Long-Thibaud-Crespin et tout particulièrement Renaud Capuçon pour leur confiance. Camille Pepin / Date parution : 2020-08-21/ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Born into a family that had lived in Florence since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) entertained only a distant relationship with the music he heard at synagogue: a Renaissance church held more appeal for the Florentine artist than the Oriental décor of his forefathers’ place of worship. It was only when he discovered Schelemo a rhapsody for cello and orchestra written in 1916 by Ernest Bloch that he began to understand what “Jewish music” could be. It would take until the death of his maternal grandfather and the discovery of a collection of prayers set to music among his papers for the youngCastelnuovo-Tedesco to begin to explore Jewish music. In 1928 two years after publishing the Dances of King David he wrote this Vocalise-Étude for medium voice and piano at the request of vocal teacher Amédée-Landély Hettich who wanted to include it in the Répertoire moderne de Vocalises-Études published by Leduc. The piece became so popular that it led to several adaptations and the composer asked his close friend Gioacchino Maglioni (1891-1966) to transcribe it for violin and piano. Divided into three sections the work opens with a poignant lamento that grieves the tragic fate of the Jewish people. Countering what he felt to be a tendency of Jewish music to transform into a “Wailing Wall” Castelnuovo-Tedesco follows the lamento with a folk dance whose brisk “lively and stubborn” movement has great panache. The third section returns to the initial poignant theme before briefly reiterating the dance motif allowing the piece to conclude on a hopeful note.

This work is part of a cycle of five short pieces for a single instrument and piano, focused on the five ages in the cosmogony of Ancient Mexican civilisation. The peoples of the Mexican highlands believe that time follows specific cycles and that the world was created following the pattern of 'trial and error'. The creation of the world is divided into several periods which are termed 'suns' (we are currently living in the fifth phase named 'Ollin'). Each period will be brought to an end through a natural catastrophe.Solei-Feu refers to the first attempt to create a world out of a rain of fire (nahui quiahuitl).The element of fire is reflected in the musical soundscape of this work, constructed from rampant, rhythmic motifs, fragmented splinters, spinning upswings and impacts reverberating through space. An intimate dialogue develops between violin and piano on the basis of extremely simple figures. Interconnecting lines and dense musical material are thrown against each other in a play of contrasting registers and blended tonal colouring, creating a mysterious and disturbing mythological universe coloured by its ontological pessimism. Thierry Pécou / Violon Et Piano

Take A Walk Through Aleksey Igudesman'S Imaginary Garden!. Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Aleksey Igudesman might reasonably be described as a modern day Victor Borge. With his cabaret partner, Hyung-ki Joo, he has toured concert halls all over the world, wringing all that is humorous out of classical music with just the basic tools of violin and piano. 'In my Garden 1” shows Igudesman in another light, that of a violin teacher, providing excellent material for younger violin students. Each piece depicts a fruit or vegetable to be found growing in the garden and includes a short poem (in English, French and German) and pictures to inspire the pupil and help them to interpret the music. But these are not just fun to play - they conceal useful study material to improve technique like staccato or lyrical smooth bowing. Clever use of double stops (one note always an open string) will help the student make a more rewarding sound and inspire confidence. Grade 1 students can enjoy some of the pieces and still be dipping into it a year or two later. A piano part is included to make these pieces ideal for an end-of-term concert and, for more ideas, Igudesman has also depicted animals in similar fashion in his two volumes 'In the Zoo”./ Recueil / Violon et Piano

30 intermediate recital pieces for violin and piano. Par . Following the successful first volume, Piccolo Paganini Vol. 2 contains 30 original intermediate-level pieces for violin and piano. Violin experts Christiane Schmidt and Gudrun Jeggle focus on musically sophisticated and rarely-heard concert pieces by composers ranging from Handel and Elgar to Pauline Viardot García and Grazyna Bacewicz. This appealing and attractive repertoire will help every little Paganini shine ? a real treasure trove for teaching, performance, and competitions. 30 intermediate-level compositions for violin and piano (mainly 1st and 3rd positions, but going up to 5th position) Appealing and musically rewarding repertoire pieces Ideal for developing fluency, bowing technique and basic double-stop playing With performance notes and short biographies For teaching, performance, and competitions / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Recueil / Violon et Piano

In E-flat major Op.102. Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. The second half of the 19th century represented something of a ?Golden Age? of the violin sonata in France: influential violin sonatas such as those by Franck, Fauré and Saint-Saëns were among the successful works of this genre, inspiring many further compositions. Saint-Saëns? Violin Sonata No.2 was written in 1896 during a stay of several months by the composer in Egypt: he 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 journey back to Cairo. That same year the sonata was premiered by Saint-Saëns and Pablo Sarasate in a concert celebrating the composer?s fiftieth stage anniversary. Astoundingly, he had first appeared on stage when he was only ten years old. This performing edition edited by Fabien Guilloux and François de Médicis is based on ?Saint-Saëns ? ?uvres instrumentales complètes?, volume III/4. It reflects the most up-to-date state of research on this work which the edition presents in a spacious engraving. - With a detailed Foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger) on the genesis and performance history - Performing edition based on the Urtext of the ?Saint-Saëns ? ?uvres instrumentales complètes? - Optimum layout in the violin part and piano score / Date parution : 2022-11-08/ Répertoire / Violon et Piano