SKU: FG.55011-598-9

ISBN 9790550115989.

The volume G of the popular Colourstrings violin tutors by Géza Szilvay studies every position of the violin in a separate volume: G1 the second position, G2 the third position, G3 the fourth position, G4 the fifth position and the last one, G5, the high positions (sixth and seventh). These books form an all-embracing, rich collection of shifting exercises, position playing studies, excerpts from the literature, chamber music (mainly duos), and performing pieces, piano accompaniment offered as a separate publication (Books G1, G2 & G2 supplement 9790550116467; Books G3 & G4 9790550116931 and Book G5 9790550116948).

The extensive Book G5 - Sixth and Seventh Position (9790550116948) follows the key principles of Colourstrings methodology - the use of natural harmonics and constant developing of inner hearing for instance - but it can be fully utilized also without any previous use or knowledge about the Colourstrings method. The innovative and unique visual presentation of the “house of the positions and preparatory exercises for the challenging passages help the young and older students to fully understand, why and where the different positions are needed. The performance pieces with piano accompaniment in the Book G5 (alphabetical order):
Bériot, Charles de: Air varié
Bohm, Carl: Introduction and Polonaise
Brahms, Johannes: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Dancla, Charles: Second Solo
Drdla, Frantisek: Souvenir
Glazunov, Alexander: Spanish Serenade
Kodály, Zoltán: Kallo Double Dances I-III
Kuula, Toivo: Chanson sans paroles
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Minuet
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista: Siciliana
Pugnani-Kreisler: Tempo di Minuetto
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Vocalise
Sibelius, Jean: Romance
Sonninen, Ahti: Karelian Dance
Wieniawski, Henryk: Mazurka
Žilinskis, Arvīds Mazurka

Duos for two violins in the Book G5:
B. Campagnoli: Duo (Andantino)
F. J . Mazas: Duos in six positions (Moderato)

Excerpts from the violin literature: Prokofieff - Bartók - Tartini - Rachmaninoff - Bériot - Pugnani - Rode - Weiner - Schubert - Dancla - Rieding

More about the Colourstrings method: https://www.fennicagehrman.fi/sheet-music/colourstrings/.

SKU: PR.114418750

ISBN 9781491129524. UPC: 680160655489. 9 x 12 inches.

The seven-movement in the snowy margins might be considered a sort of atomic suite, as each movement is succinct, yet a microcosmic powerhouse inspired by “The Comet,” by Polish writer and Holocaust victim Bruno Schulz. Hersch’s intensity is expressed through dramatically captivating violin gestures, pushing the boundaries of texture, technique, and emotion.
Michael Hersch’s in the snowy margins was written in 2010. Like much of his work, it is grounded in literature and art. The title is drawn from a short story, The Comet by Polish writer, poet, and artist, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). This forms the last of his collection The Street of Crocodiles, published in 1934. Schulz was shot by a Nazi officer in 1942.Both the title of Hersch’s work, and the ‘motto’ found on the composer’s manuscript (‘Thus far and no further. But what has become of the end of the world…’) are to be found in The Comet. It’s interesting that in in the snowy margins, unlike his earlier Fourteen Pieces which were inspired by the poetry of Primo Levi, Hersch chose to not title each individual movement with a quote. However his choices of text are applied, there is a clear quality of distillation. In every case, the texts which the composer has chosen to eschew lie beneath the music, akin to the greater mass of an iceberg, submerged, but imminent.Hersch also has very particular taste in visual art, and there seems to be common ground between the intensely expressionist drawing of Schulz, and those of Michael Mazur, which inspired his string quartet Images from a Closed Ward. The parallels between these artists reflect common traits shared between these two pieces, which provide a window on how the music should be approached, expressively and technically. I would argue, that from a violinist’s point of view, this pertains directly to how bow and left hand should approach the string: the febrile vibrancy of both Mazur and Schulz’s pencil and charcoal strokes, perhaps what T.S. Eliot called the ‘circulation of the lymph’, in every gesture, speaks to the intense experience, physically and emotionally, of playing (and hearing) this music. There is an intense sense of ‘truth to materials’ at every moment, the sense that every note sings on the edge of, or even beyond, total collapse.— Peter Sheppard-Skaerved.

SKU: HL.50576725

SKU: M7.VHR-3804

ISBN 9783920470450. German.

Führt systematisch das Spiel in der 3. Lage ein. Ausgegangen wird von den Oktavliedern der Vorschule. Zuerst werden die verschiedenen Griffarten in der 3. Lage geübt. Erst wenn innerhalb der 3. Lage sicher intoniert wird, kommen die Lagenwechsel dazu.

SKU: SU.50028450

Violin, Cello, Harp Duration: c. 8' Composed: 1993 Published by: Seesaw Music.

SKU: HL.14008577

SKU: HL.14018379