Among violinists and teachers, Oskar Rieding (1840-1918) is primarily known for his easily violin concertos suited for beginners. His works, written for music lessons, are easy to master, beautiful to listen to and sparkle with enchanting aesthetics.The Rondo, which originally was the third of four easy performance pieces in a cycle for violin and piano (Op. 22), is one of Rieding's most popular and frequently performed pieces in violin lessons for beginners. Rieding was leader of the orchestra at the Budapest opera house and clearly draws on this operatic influence in this piece.This edition is part of the new Schott Student Edition series which offers varied literature at five different levels of difficulty, from 1 (easy) to 5 (difficult), for instrumental lessons:In print or electronic formatAvailable as printed editions or PDF downloadPractising - efficiently and with pleasureAccompanying tracks of the pieces available as downloads / Violon Et Piano

This enchanting 8-minute piece for violin and piano – Oliver Knussen’s penultimate work – is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion; a six-note mode reflected in its complement; and the relationships between the three main parts of the piece which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water too the work’s opus number (31a) demonstrating a relationship to Knussen’s unfinished Cleveland Pictures: ‘The main melody began as a response to Gauguin’s painting of a Breton woman swimming’ Knussen wrote ‘and there is also perhaps anecho of the lonely underwater world of an ondine eventually breaking the surface at the end of the piece.’

Conçus pour l'enseignement ou les tous premiers concerts, les albums 'Easy Concert Pieces' pour violon et piano contiennent des pièces faciles et connues, allant de la Renaissance à l'époque moderne, soigneusement choisies en accord avec leurs exigences techniques et musicales : volume 1 facile, volume 2 intermédiaire. Toutes les pièces sont jouables dans la première position. À côté de pièces originales de Milán, Purcell, Corelli, Duval ou Telemann, figurent des arrangements faciles de classiques célèbres, comme 'Les Quatre saisons' de Vivaldi, 'Fireworks Music' (Musique pour les feux d'artifice royaux) de Haendel ou encore 'La Flûte enchantée' de Mozart, ainsi que des compositions modernes de pop, jazz, spiritual, bossa nova et tango. Toutes les pièces sur le CD existent en version complète et en play-back./ Recueil / Violon et Piano