After Hours comprises eight laid back jazzy pieces for Violin and Piano covering a variety of styles from cosy dinner jazz to wistful blues and more upbeat numbers composed by Pam Wedgwood. The perfect way to wind down after a stressful day!The accompanying CD contains two tracks for each piece in this book: the first track is a full performance of the piece allowing you to hear how it should sound and be played; and the second is a recording of the backing only giving you the opportunity to play-along yourself without the need for an accompanist!The solo violin part is also included on a separate insert.

The multi-million selling pop superstar Robbie Williams takes a break from the mainstream with this album, presenting a collection including some of the greatest swing and big band hits, performed in Robbie\'s own charismatic style. This volume contains a well-arranged score for violin for all of the tracks on the album and includes a CD with the backing tracks, perfect for practising at home or performing live.

Lennox Berkeley's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano.Written when Berkeley was studying with Nadia Boulanger this sonata was premiered by Yvonne Astruc and Madeleine Grovlez for theSociété musicale indépendante at the Ecole normale de musique in Paris on 4 May 1932. The work is dedicated to Gladys Sophia Bryans an elderly admirerof Berkeley who died in 1951. She lived at Rudge House Painswick Gloucestershire and her house parties included Berkeley and Britten when they were working on their joint orchestral suite Mont Juic in 1937.The first recording of this Sonata along with No. 2 Berkeley?sofficial Op. 1 was made in 2013 by Edwin Paling and Arabella Teniswood-Harvey on Move MD3361. Their performing score has been consulted for this first publication which has had the support of the Lennox Berkeley Society.The source is a manuscript in a copyist?s hand now at the British Library.

The publication of Tango Violin Duets was met with such an enthusiastic response that it prompted the release of these arrangements for violin and piano. The timbre of the violin is exceptionally well suited to evoking in sound the musical riches of Argentina's past as well as to making the fascination and glamour of Gardel's tango music come alive again. Some of his most well-known pieces are featured in this volume and Diego Collatti's arrangements retain all the captivating magnetic charms we associate with the Tango. Suitable for violinists of middle-grade standard and beyond.

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André from Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as large a target group of music-making amateurs as possible, the editors at that time increasingly saw to the works' easy playability. Fortunately, the sonatas nevertheless found their way into the repertoire of the violinists.This is a practical edition in two volumes based on the text of the Weber Complete Edition. / 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.

Based on the instrumental interlude of the well-known Peking Opera  Farewell My Concubine.

Une collection exceptionnelle d'airs de Noël classiques habilement arrangé pour le soliste de début avec l'accompagnement au piano en formats imprimés et enregistrées numériquement. Inclut l'hôtel de la terrasse, The First Noel, bascule, Jingle Bells ainsi que beaucoup d'autres / Violon / 50 pages / Partition + Cd

18 Vortragsstücke für Anfänger-18 concert pieces for beginner Violinists by Edward Huws Jones. Ideal Concert pieces which appeal to the imagination - and sense of humour - of young players and their audiences.Player-friendly melody lines powered along by racy Piano accompaniments in pop and jazz idiomsThe different instrument books are compatible as the string parts are in unison or octaves making them ideal for individual or group lessons and for string ensembles.

Serenata Notturna by Edward Gregson was first performed by Helena Smart (violin) and Caroline Jaya-Ratnam (piano) at the String Final of BBC Young Musicians 2000 Royal Northem College of Music Manchester 23 February 2000.'As the title suggests my Serenata Notturna evokes the atmosphere of night music. Following a reflective opening where the pitch development outlines a twelve-note series the music gradually becomes more agitated developing into a kind of danse macabre eventually reaching a powerful climax. The music then subsides into a much more tranquil atmosphere and the previous dissonant material transposes itself into a simple melody(like a lullaby) uttered by the violin the outline of which both melodically and in terms of the accompaniment figuration has already been present in the piece since the beginning. Thus the turmoil of the first part of the work becomes transfigured into something much more peaceful - hence the quotation that prefaces the score: ?out of darkness cometh light?. After I finished the work it became apparent to me that it might become the sketch for the slow movement of a Violin Concerto on which I had just begun working. It did indeed form the basis of that slow movement and the concerto was premiered by Lyn Fletcher and the Halle Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano at Bridgewater Hall Manchester in February 2000 the same month as Serenata Notturna itself was first played in public.'Edward Gregson