Jessica O'Leary (Editor). Over the years, many examination pieces have captured the imagination of teachers and students, but the stars of past syllabuses are often forgotten. This collection brings together best-loved grade 5 pieces, including Pleyel's Sonatina in B flat , Fauré's Sicilienne and Wedgwood's Survivor . Containing fresh editions of folk and classical masterpieces alongside contemporary favourites, all pieces have been rigorously researched by violin expert Jessica O'Leary. A CD of performance and accompaniment tracks is included, as are useful practice tips. This book includes pieces from current and past Trinity and ABRSM syllabuses. Jessica O'Leary has a successful career as a teacher, professional violinist, ABRSM examiner and seminar presenter. She has toured and recorded extensively as a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and has performed with Madonna, Led Zeppelin, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Opera House. She teaches violin and viola and directs string ensembles at St Paul's Girls' School, Eltham College and Junior Guildhall London. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Recueil / Violon

P. Juon: Kleine Sinfonie, op. 87. No. 8 : P. Juon: Little Symphony, Op. 87 / Niveau : Débutant / Répertoire / Violon 1 (Partie Séparée)

Par JOURNEAU MAURICE. Le répertoire de Maurice Journeau comporte 75 oeuvres pour piano, clavecin, orgue, musique de chambre et orchestre, y compris une symphonie. Parmi les oeuvres de musique considérées comme les plus représentatives de son style par le compositeur lui-même, on peut noter les Sonatines pour piano, le Quatuor à cordes, certaines oeuvres pour violon (Aux rivages méditerranéens, Berceuse, 2e Sonate pour violon), la Toccata pour piano ou orgue et les Impromptus pour piano. Chantal Virlet/ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Gossec (1734-1829) était un compositeur français qui est devenu une figure de proue dans le développement de la symphonie en France, et a également été un personnage important dans la vie musicale de Paris depuis presque 75 ans. Tambourin est probablement son oeuvre la plus connue aujourd'hui et cet arrangement est un morceau idéal de loisirs ou un élément de concert lumière. / Quatuor A Cordes / niveau : Elémentaire / Recueil

The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave the way to the great symphony? in spring 1824. At the same time he was paving his way to a wider audience, as the 'Rosamunde? Quartet was the first and only string quartet that was not only publicly performed in Schubert's lifetime but also published in parts. It is fortunate for us that this was the case because the autograph of this much-loved quartet is missing today and the only source for the work is the first edition. And this is precisely where the challenge lies, as the parts exhibit some inaccuracies regarding the articulation and dynamics. They have had to be carefully resolved, something which our new Urtext edition has done in an exemplary fashion. Its name can be traced back to Schubert's incidental music to the play Rosamunde, which can be heard at the beginning of the Andante. Quite a few people might, however, be reminded of the Impromptu in B flat major op. post. 142 #3, in which Schubert later once again took up the beautiful melody. / Quatuor A Cordes

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Schubert n’a eu besoin que de dix jours pour la notation par écrit de son Quatuor à cordes en Sol majeur, l’une de ses oeuvres de musique de chambre pour ainsi dire monumentales. Avec ses dimensions littéralement symphoniques, ce dernier quatuor rappelle son grand Quintette à cordes en Ut majeur. Et effectivement, Schubert voulait, comme le révèle un passage d’une de ses lettres, «se frayer la voie de la grande symphonie» avec cette oeuvre de musique de chambre et quelques autres datant de la même époque. Le compositeur ne vivra plus l’exécution en public du Quatuor écrit en 1826- la mise sous presse aussi aura lieu longtemps après sa mort. L’édition Urtext, accompagnée d’une«Studien-Edition», se base ainsi sur l’autographe transmis. ? / Partition brochée / Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Par MARTINU BOHUSLAV. Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from this period that four short serenades also originate (1932), each with a different instrumentation. The serenades were issued by the Prague publishing house Melantrich in 1949. Their premiere took place two years previously on 16 October 1947 and was performed by members of the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK). Although the study score of the Serenades Nos. 1 and 3 was published while the composer was still alive, he was in fact not involved in preparing this edition: indeed, the performance material also appeared in print without his participation in 1954. It was therefore decided to use the autograph score as the principal source for this edition./ Répertoire / Hautbois, Clarinette, 4 Violons et Violoncelle

The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the demonstration tracks to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The purchase price includes online access to audio for download or streaming.This volume features eight classical favorites: Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns) - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) - Hungarian Dance #5 (Brahms) - In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach) - Mars (Holst) - Symphony #5 in C Minor, First Movement Excerpt (Beethoven) - William Tell Overture (Rossini). / Violon

Par PESSON GERARD. Mes béatitudes résulte(nt) d'un projet presque impossible qui consistait à réunir dans une narration, une forme traversée, l'idéal schématisé de tout ce que j'avais dû abandonner pendant des années. Non pas un cimetière des idées, mais un programme articulé, tendu par un fil panique, des tentatives ou des repentirs qui sont tout de même la matière vive de toute invention poétique. Dans l'idéal schématisé, je voulais retrouver cette énergie, cette ferveur un peu distancée et souvent rageuse qui s'attache à la compression ou au recyclage des figures délaissées, aux moments préférés non avenus qui se retrouvent ici déformés, accélérés ou étirés. Les gestes extrêmes sont recueillis et pour ainsi dire sauvés: lenteurs élégiaques, refrains stridents, assèchement de la matière musicale, décomposition du geste instrumental en plusieurs états successifs donnés séparément. Au milieu de la partition figure, comme une stèle, livré dans un état de grande fragilité, presque hors de portée, le deuxième thème de l'adagio de la Septième symphonie de Bruckner (sans doute un des plus beaux thèmes jamais écrits). Ce n'est pas une citation mais un hors-texte sacré, pôle magnétique de toute tentative. Bruckner est sans doute l'artiste (avec Messiaen) qui a porté à ses plus ultimes conséquences la tension entre macroforme et écriture par moments interrompus ou tournant sur eux-mêmes. II est aussi le maître douloureux du repentir. Deux Abgesänge, ces fins suspendues qu'Adorno affiliait chez Mahier à la catégorie de l'accomplissement, forment alternative pour essayer de ne pas finir - 'deux détours qui sont peut-être le chemin direct' (Adorno). Voici le programme qui résulte de ce 'centon composé des idées délaissées': refrain - pantoum - refrain - barcarolle (mib) - refrain - thrène (stèle Bruckner) - refrain - abgesang 1 - refrain (ongles et bois) - abgesang 2 Mes béatitudes, commande de l'Etat, a été créé le 27 mars 1995, au Centre Georges-Pompidou, par l'Ensemble Itinéraire sous la direction de Pascal Rophé. / contemporain / Répertoire / Piano, Violon, Alto et Violoncelle

Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The commission was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music. My music has a substantial history with Daedalus. I composed the Third String Quartet (2008) for them, and subsequently they performed my three string quartets on several occasions and recorded them brilliantly on Bridge Records (Bridge 9352: Music of Fred Lerdahl, vol. 3). Chaconne is in one movement lasting 19 minutes. It is effectively my fourth string quartet. Quartets 1-3 form a unified cycle lasting 70 minutes. When I finished the cycle, I thought I would never write again for the medium; yet I could not resist the opportunity of working again with Daedalus. The issue was how to compose another string quartet unrelated to the earlier cycle. The solution came from my solo cello piece There and Back Again (2010), which was based on a four-bar variation pattern from a 17th-century chaconne. Unlike the asymmetrical phrases and expanding variations of much of my music, the chaconne form requires symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. I wished to work again with these symmetries but on a larger scale. Chaconne also differs in character and expression from the three-quartet cycle. The cycle is inward and intense, a kind of psychological excavation. Chaconne is, for the most part, transparent and playful. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not completely unlike the rounds that children sing. Any composer who writes in chaconne form (one thinks above all of the last movement of Bach’s D minor violin partita and the finale of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony) is confronted with the challenge of how to create a larger form out of a constantly repeating pattern. My Chaconne grows from paired antecedent-consequent phrases, each variation lasting eight bars. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation, with subtle parallel connections across the rotations. Notwithstanding my attraction to chaconne form, I purposefully disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape. Fred Lerdahl/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par SAMITZ NICO. 'Nico Samitz has been composing for chamber ensembles since his school days. For over ten years he has been writing works in a wide variety of genres for the „BlechReiz BrassQuintett“ ensemble, in which he himself plays trumpet and piano. His field of expertise ranges from classical pieces to jazz and meditative music—and even to pop-oriented compositions. While honing his skills in ear-training and composition at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Nico became acquainted with a wide repertoire of works as a trumpet player with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bavarian State Opera, all of which have influenced his writing style. The driving force behind his creative work is a winning combination of passion, the fun of music-making and a desire to express, through the medium of music, feelings that are difficult to put into words. Like many of his works, Nico composed The Joy of Freedom for the „BlechReiz BrassQuintet“. The catchy tune is reworked in a variety of styles throughout the entire work, giving it the quality of a true ‘earworm’. ' / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Répertoire / Quintette de Cuivres

Wagenseil, Sinfonia in D. Par WAGENSEIL GEORG CHRISTOPH. No. 4 : Wagenseil, Symphony In D/ Répertoire / Violon 1 (Partie Séparée)

Wagenseil, Sinfonia in A. Par WAGENSEIL GEORG CHRISTOPH. No. 3 : Wagenseil, Symphony In A/ Répertoire / Violon 1 (Partie Séparée)

Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Brace yourselves, Beethoven lovers and purists everywhere; here is the famous Fifth Symphony as you never dared to imagine it! In “Beethoven Takes Five”, Aleksey has changed the meter to an audacious 5/4… but that’s just the beginning of his machinations! He throws in Mexican music, latin, swing and jazz and, in his own words, “all sorts of other abominations on top”. The result is an amazing piece, perhaps suitable for a concert encore, that can be played as a string quartet or piano quintet. This edition features the piano score. The string parts are available with the number UE38099. / Date parution : 2023-03-21/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes (Piano ad libitum)

Mezmer for string quartet is an adaptation of the last movement of Re-Collecting ASTORoids, an earlier suite for orchestra from Kats-Chernin. Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the suite was written in tribute to Astor Piazzolla and is clearly inspired by tango, though Kats-Chernin uses various rhythms as her source of inspiration. Mezmer is a miniature and has an intimate, smoky feel with a bluesy violin solo laden with vibrato. An air of solitude and reflection surrounds the piece. / Quatuor A Cordes