SKU: HL.359826

ISBN 9781705122280. UPC: 840126946390. 9x12 inches. Kamillo Lendvay.

Henri Vieuxtemps was a remarkably productive composer who wrote seven violin concertos, concert etudes, two viola sonatas and a dozen or so chamber works, yet the bulk of his output consists of works for violin and piano. Vieuxtemps's favorite musical form was the then-fashionable fantasy on themes from well-known operas, of which he left us quite a number. The Romance originally composed for violin and piano is based on a theme from Stanislaw Moniuszko's national opera Halka (Jontek's famous aria 'Szumia jodly na gór szcycie' [The firs sough on the mountain top.]). The present edition is based on Zdzislaw Jahnke's 1952 edition. This work gives the player the opportunity to display a beautiful tone and proficiency in both the left and right hand; it is also a marvelous exercise in rubato playing.

SKU: HL.49019443

ISBN 9783795746803. German.

Christmas is the time of music, the time of playing together in different ensembles. The current volume contains the most beautiful and best-known German and international Christmas carols with an easily playable, yet nice-sounding piano accompaniment. A treasure chest for lessons, concerts and music-making at home during Christmas time.

SKU: XC.SB2005

ISBN 9781644020449. UPC: 812598034721. 9 x 12 inches.

Accessible Solo Repertoire for Viola contains eighteen newly composed or arranged solos with piano accompaniment written at grades 2 to 2.5. Written by one of the most popular composers of music for students, Larry Clark, and the talented up and coming composer Tyler Arcari, these solos will add something new, fresh, and different to your solo repertoire for Viola. Larry and Tyler use their experience as music educators to write solos that are fun to play and musically stimulating. These solos are perfect for use at an adjudicated solo festival or recital. Each book comes with beautifully set solo parts. Piano accompaniment parts and piano only recordings of each piece are available for download from the Excelcia Music Publishing website.

Contents< br>Bountiful Harvest
An Inconsistent Love
Barbary Coast
Danse Macabre
Earth Song
Humble Heart
Italian Song
Kelvingrove
Minuet
Never to Rise Again
Serenade
Skydance
Sonatina
Spinning Song
Swan Dancing
The Eastern Moors
The Water is Wide
Wild Horseman.

SKU: BR.EB-9441

ISBN 9790004189184. 9 x 12 inches.

The two sonatas of Johannes Brahms's op. 120 are widely hailed as crowning points of the repertoire for clarinet and piano. Moreover, in the version for viola and piano arranged by Brahms himself, they rank among the most frequently played viola works of the 19th century. They far surpass in compositional substance the relatively few original sonatas written for these instrumentations during the same period.Of the two fellow works, the Sonata No. 2 in E flat major is the more accessible. Diverging from the classical-romantic tradition, Brahms used the key of E flat major here not to express the heroic or monumental, but to obtain lyrical, chiefly restrained characterizations. The serenade-like beauty of the principal theme, which opens the sonata, has always been particularly admired. In his review of the world premiere, the renowned Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, a friend of Brahms's, raves with the words it was as if it had fallen from the Heavens. The closing set of variations also follows with gentle gracefulness this lyrical character. However, the middle movement, with its tempestuous outer sections in E flat minor and the hymnic trio in B major provides a passionate and serious contrast, which allows the flanking idyll to unfold its beauties all the more insistently.