SKU: PR.494031990

UPC: 680160686179.

Lyrical Violin Legends is an exciting collection of 20 works for violin and piano, featuring exclusively commissioned works by contemporary composers and inspiring new arrangements of 19th and 20th century compositions. Listen to the legends, discover beautiful scenes and enjoy lively dances through the alluring lyricism of this music.These exclusive commissioned works and new arrangements are suitable for intermediate level players. The violin part includes biographies of all composers and notes/ performance suggestions for each work.All pieces in Lyrical Violin Legends have free violin & piano recordings to listen to, as well as free piano backing tracks to play along with.Preview pages: https://www.theyoungfluteplayer.com/violin-musicFree recordings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh0MBwKcJUR75_3wXRyYj5QComposers: Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, Hans Engelmann, Sally Greenaway, Greg Harradine, Jolin Jiang, Scott Joplin, Elena Kats-Chernin, Toivo Kuula, Rachel Laurin, Edward MacDowell, Felix Mendelssohn, Merryl Neille, Heather Percy, Gary Schocker.Specifications:• Contents: 20 pieces• Standard: Intermediate level• Key signatures: up to three sharps and three flats• Time signatures: 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, ₵, 6/8 (including mixed metre).

SKU: HL.48186509

Progressive studies is the second volume of the series Sixty Studies for Violin, written by Auguste Samie and edited by G. Catherine. Containing twenty studies, this volume should help upper beginners / intermediate violinists to play with the first and third positions more naturally. An increasing difficulty can be perceived in term of rhythm and tempo. This volume is completed by 'Dainty Studies' (Volume 1) and 'Melodic Studies' (Volume 3)..

SKU: GH.GE-11358

ISBN 979-0-070-11358-8. A4 inches.

Work comment by the composer:
The lonely one was composed during May and June of the year 2000. It was written for Annika Gustafsson, to whom it is also dedicated. It was world-premiered on December 1 the same year in Caroli Church in Malmo. After that I had composed The Threat of War that was a dramatic and massive work for orchestra, I wanted to focus on melodic as well as harmonic and rhyhtmical processes combined with a inner dramatic content. In this case the solo violin works as a narrator where the piece itself is like a monologue without words.
In the score there are imprinted expressions like racontare (tellingly), piacevole (pleasingly) och sospirare(sighing).
The lonely one is divided in three sections.
1. Doloroso (Painful) - the violin plays almost imperceptly sighing glissandi that forms the basic material of the work. Its character is constantly searching. It leads up to the section Risoluto (Resolute) that has a very determined and edgy expression.
2. Misterioso (Mysteriously) - the materials from the previous section are now further developed. It builds up and breaks down during the course of the journey. Eventually it reaches a climax on a high d.
3. Calmando e espressivo (Calmingly and expressive) - From the high d it is stepping down to a recapture on material from the first part slightly changed and moody character. It dies out slowly with the lonely notes.

Benjamin Staern