Horn in F, violin and piano - difficult

SKU: HL.49019164

Composed by Huw Watkins. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Special Import. Softcover. Composed 2008. 62 pages. Duration 13'. Schott Music #ED13251. Published by Schott Music (HL.49019164).

ISBN 9790220133312. 9.0x12.0x0.184 inches.

The idea to write a horn trio came to the composer (also an acclaimed pianist) after giving a concert with a horn player from the Nash Ensemble, which included the Ligeti and the Brahms horn trios. When the Nash commissioned Watkins to write a new piece, he knew he would write something for horn. The result is an inventive 12-minute work for horn, violin, and piano that alternates driving rhythmic passages with slower, contemplative music. The trio is both lyrical and impelling, typifying Watkins' clear sound. Cast in a single movement, the music maintains a subtle tension throughout, finally building to a climactic finish. A fantastic piece for ambitious players.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.114419270

Composed by Andrii Didorenko. Set of Score and Parts. 24+8+8 pages. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41927. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419270).

ISBN 9781491134535. UPC: 680160685011.

Throu ghout its three movements, this 14-minute trio is a multi-colored gem of visceral lyricism, full of dark beauty and mystical impressionism, which gradually grows into fire. The melodic influence and passion of Didorenko’s Ukrainian heritage are among the ingredients of this enticing concert work. A live performance of UKRAINIAN TRIO featuring the composer on violin may be heard via YouTube.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin

SKU: CF.MXE112

Composed by Paul Lansky. Sws. Set of Score and Parts. 32+8+8 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #MXE112. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.MXE112).

ISBN 9781491156766. UPC: 680160915309. 9 x 12 inches.

Angles for Piano Trio plays with a variety of textures and timbres that can be produced on the piano. Each of the four movements takes a different textural or procedural angle. The first movement, With Pluck, uses a lot of pizzicato in the strings, with virtually no use of the pedal in the piano. The second movement, Take a Bow, uses extensive double stops in the strings. The third movement, About a Minute Waltz, is percussive and rhythmic, and the last movement, A Sad Song, contrasts repetitions of a straightforward lyrical stanza with rhapsodic interludes.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.114423790

Irminden. Composed by Lora Al-Ahmad. Set of Score and Parts. 44+12+12 pages. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42379. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114423790).

UPC: 680160688647.

Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.164002390

Composed by Dan Welcher. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1995. 26+14+14 pages. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00239. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002390).

UPC: 680160038091.

I became interested in the work of Plato through my friend and collaborator, the writer and philosopher Paul Woodruff. Paul's new translation, with Alexander Nehamas, of the Symposium gave me insights into ancient Greek ways of thinking about Love, Beauty, and Wisdom -- and managed to keep the earthy, and often bawdy side of it all in full view. But their new translation of Plato's later dialogue Phaedrus went even further: the beauty of the speeches is breathtaking, and the discourse itself is enough to keep one awake at night. Basically the Great Speech of Socrates in the Phaedrus dialogue has to do with the place of Eros in the world, and with the conflict in the soul between fleshly pleasure and philosophic discovery. I will not attempt to encapsulate this brilliant discourse in a program note: suffice it to say that reading it gave rise to my two-sided work for clarinet, violin, and piano, Phaedrus. The first movement represents the Philosophic life, and is thus subtitled Apollo's Lyre (Invocation and Hymn). It begins with an unaccompanied melody for the clarinet, which (after a pair of harp-like flourishes for the piano, expands into an accompanied canon. The voices in the dialogue (clarinet and violin) follow each other by a prescribed number of beats, but the music is totally devoid of any meter at all. The piano, representing the lyre, accompanies this lyric love-feast with repeated strummed chords. The canon has three large sections, and ends with violin echoing the unaccompanied clarinet invocation as the sound of the lyre fades. The second movement, called Dionysus' Dream-Orgy (Ritual Dance) presents, after a brief introduction, another kind of unmetered music. Rather than long lyric flights of philosophic song, however, this time we hear a unison dance of unbridled energy and sensual transport. The piece soon forms itself into a loose arch form, with contrasting metered dance sections divided by the unison unmetered orgy tune. Midway through the movement, Apollo's melody returns from the first movement, but it is a temporary reminiscence. The orgiastic dance returns, reaches a climax, and ends with a stomping of feet. While Plato asserts that a proper balance between lust and reason is necessary in all men, he (naturally) gives the nod to Philosophy as the better choice in which to live. Not so in my music: the two sides are meant to coexist and to complement each other. No sides are taken. Phaedrus was commissioned of the Verdehr Trio by Michigan State University. It is dedicated to the Vedehr Trio with great affection and admiration.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.414411630

Composed by Shulamit Ran. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 28+28+20+24+20+24 pages. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #414-41163. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.414411630).

ISBN 9781491114551. UPC: 680160089956. 9.5 x 13 inches.

EXCURSIONS is a one-movement work exploring two “characters.” A rhapsodic, descending passage is introduced by the cello, followed by a  static, chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello. Their individual developments are separated by a slow, contrasting middle section. The composer has written: “This is analogous to situations in life: we stand by a crossroad, choosing one option and forfeiting the other. But in art, the realm of the imagination, we can perhaps afford to pursue more than one route to its ultimate destination… or can we? It is symbolic that in this work both roads eventually lead to the same place.”.
Excursi ons for violin, cello and piano, is a one-movement work of tripartite structure in which materials explored in the first of three large sections are brought back in the last section.  The traditional statement-contrast-restat ement form, which is readily suggested by such a description, is, however, not at all in the mold in which the work is cast.  Rather, my aim was to subject the essential materials of the piece (two “characters” –the rhapsodic, descending passage played by the cello in the very opening and, later, a static, slow moving, chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello) to two entirely different developments separated by a slow, contrasting middle section.  This is analogous to an exploration of the ramifications that two divergent choices made by the same person might lead to.  In life, as we stand by a crossroad, choosing one option usually means having to forfeit the other.  But in art, the realm of the imagination, we can perhaps afford to pursue more than one route to its ultimate destination…or can we?  It is, I believe, symbolic that in this work both roads eventually lead to the same place: in composing Excursions, it seemed absolutely inescapable that at the end the slow, contrasting middle sections – both more resigned and peaceful than the battling spirits of the outer parts – should return briefly to end the work. The piano trio combination (once highly favored, but to this composer still as challenging today) is approached here as a collaborative effort of three equal soloists – partners.  Of the available pairings, the two strings find themselves occasionally approached as a team pitted against the piano.  The cello-piano combination is also not uncommon here, and there is an extended violin cadenza toward the end of the piece.  The writing for the three instruments is closely and at times interlinked, but the players are all instructed to play from scores. Excursions was first performed at Brandeis University in 1982.

Violin & Piano

SKU: SU.91770470

For Violin & Piano. Composed by Paul Moravec. Chamber Music, String Trio/Quartet/Quintet. Score & Parts. Composed 2005. Subito Music Corporation #91770470. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.91770470).

Violin, Piano Duration: Composed: 2005 Published by: Subito Music Publishing.

By Otto Luening. For Flute, Violin and Piano. Flute, Violin, Piano/Harpsichord. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing.

Piano; Violin - intermediate

SKU: HL.49019514

Violin and Piano. Composed by Joe Duddell. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. Composed 2010. 24 pages. Duration 9'. Schott Music #ED13358. Published by Schott Music (HL.49019514).

ISBN 9790220132575. 9.0x12.0x0.111 inches.

“All Stars Aligned was originally to be a set of variations on a theme that is almost hidden in the opening bars. However, the piece took on much more of a fantasia feel and shape as I wrote it and it could be argued that a second theme first heard in the violin of the ground (derived from material in bar 5) becomes more dominant than the first as the piece progresses. The piece is in one continuous movement but is in three distinct sections and tempi: medium, slow and fast. The material shares some similarities with my piano trio, Nightswimming, and in some ways can be seen as a companion piece (minus the cello of course). The title comes from a track on an album by the artist St. Vincent called Marry Me which I hope is appropriate for a piece commissioned to celebrate a wedding anniversary.” Joe Duddell 2010.

Piano Accompaniment; Violin

SKU: HL.50513343

Composed by E. Rubbra. Lengnick Publishing. Classical. Book Only. Alfred Lengnick & Co #AL0855. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co (HL.50513343).

The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.103 was written in 1958 and is yet another superb orchestral work by Edmund Rubbra. Typically, this is a work that calls more on musicality than on virtuosity, although Rubbra knew the violin well for having long partnered his wife and for having long played in a trio with William Pleeth. Rubbra's familiarity with the instrument certainly helped him avoiding technical 'tricks' and concentrating his creative energies more on an inward-looking solo part than an outward-dashing virtuosic one!

This is an arrangement for Solo Violin with Piano Accompaniment. The solo violin part is also included on a separate insert.

Horn, violin and piano (Parts)

SKU: HL.49029661

Composed by Donald Banks. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Set of Parts. 12 pages. Duration 15'. Schott Music #ED 10928-10. Published by Schott Music (HL.49029661).

ISBN 9790220124099. 9.0x12.0x0.17 inches.

(From Piano Trio In D Minor, Op. 49). By Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Arranged by Jascha Heifetz. For Violin, Piano. The Jascha Heifetz Series. Standard notation. 16 pages. Published by Carl Fischer

Violin and piano

SKU: HL.49044181

Composed by Stefan Heucke. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Softcover. Composed 2009. Op. 58. 68 pages. Duration 21'. Schott Music #VLB189. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044181).

ISBN 9790001197939. 9.25x12.0x0.263 inches.

Die zweite Violinsonate op. 58 entstand im November und Dezember 2009 und ist als freundliches Gegenstuck zu der duster-aufgewuhlten ersten Violinsonate op. 38 (2000) konzipiert. Die helle Grundstimmung des Werkes ist sicherlich nicht zuletzt durch seinen Enstehungsort Cervo an der ligurischen Riviera, meiner italienischen Wahlheimat, buchstablich bei Sonnenschein unter blauem Himmel entstanden, beeinflusst.Dem ganzen Werk liegt ein musikalisches Motto zugrunde, das jedoch erst im abschliessenden zehntaktigen Adagio amoroso, das aus einer versunkenen Welt zu entstammen scheint, verraten wird. Alles Material ist darauf bezogen und die ganze Sonate scheint eigentlich nur komponiert worden zu sein, um diese Schlussaussage formulieren zu konnen.Der erste Satz ist ein breit angelegtes Moderato mit zwei Themen in strenger Sonatenhauptsatzform. Sowohl thematisches Material als auch alle formalen Verbindungsglieder sind harmonisch wie melodisch aus den Intervallen der kleinen und grossen Terz und deren Komplementarintervallen, der grossen und kleinen Sext gebildet. Dieses beinahe serielle Verfahren wird allerdings von dem uberschwanglich romantischen Gestus der Musik vollkommen kaschiert.Der sehr schnelle, federleicht schwebende zweite Scherzosatz wird beherrscht vom luftigen Pizzicato der Violine und fluchtigen Klavierfiguren, nur im gesanglichen Trio erhebt sich die Violine zu einer vierphrasigen, langsam aufsteigenden Kantilene auf choralartig akkordischem Untergrund des Klaviers.Die langsame Einleitung des Finalsatzes nahert sich dem abschliessenden Motto bereits sehr deutlich ohne es ganz erklingen zu lassen. Diese Introduktion wird in die Mitte des zweithemigen, feurig dahinsturmenden Allegro anstelle einer Durchfuhrung wieder aufgenommen und in den lebhaften Gestus des Schlusssatzes umgewandelt. Mit dem Erklingen des eigentlichen Herzstuck des Werkes als Adagio amoroso schliesst das Werk, sicherlich sehr uberraschend fur Neue Musik.- Stefan Heucke.

Violin and Piano

SKU: BT.AL-0855

Composed by Edmund Rubbra. Book Only. 62 pages. Alfred Lengnick & Co #AL 0855. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co (BT.AL-0855).

English.

The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.103 was written in 1958 and is yet another superb orchestral work by Edmund Rubbra. Typically, this is a work that calls more on musicality than on virtuosity, although Rubbra knewthe violin well for having long partnered his wife and for having long played in a trio with William Pleeth. Rubbra's familiarity with the instrument certainly helped him avoiding technical ‘tricks’ and concentrating his creativeenergies more on an inward-looking solo part than an outward-dashing virtuosic one!

This is an arrangement for Solo Violin with Piano Accompaniment. The solo violin part is also included on a separate insert.

Voice, Violin and Piano

SKU: AP.36-M386391

Composed by Camille Saint-Saens. Mixed Trio; Performance Music Ensemble. Master Vocal Series. Score and Part(s). Alfred Music #36-M386391. Published by Alfred Music (AP.36-M386391).

UPC: 660355149719. English.

This well-known aria Le Bonheur est Chose Légère (ICS 30) was part of Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) four-act opéra fantastique Le timbre d'argent, which was written in 1865. This version for voice and piano with violin obbligato was created in 1877. Reprint edition.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

Violin and Piano - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: FP.FPT05

Composed by Thomas Pitfield. Sheet Music and Books. The newly released 2nd violin sonata by respected 20th Century British composer, Thomas Pitfield. Classical. Score and part. Forsyths Publications #FPT05. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FPT05).

ISBN 9790570504275.

Thom as Pitfield had a gift for memorable tunes, often couched in somewhat French-sounding harmonic and decorative idiom. He admired Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Delius and their influence can be felt in his works.

This second violin sonata has been long unpublished, but is now released by Forsyth Publishing to mark 25 years since his passing in 1999 and the publication of a new biography of his life.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.114423360

Composed by Stacy Garrop. Set of Score and Parts. 24+12+12 pages. Duration 8:30. Theodore Presser Company #114-42336. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114423360).

UPC: 680160686285.

When the Newport Music Festival commissioned me for a piano trio in honor of their 2021 season, I looked for a topic that would celebrate an aspect of the Newport community. While researching the area, I was struck by the nine lighthouses situated around the island. The dual nature of lighthouses was particularly appealing to me: not only do they serve a vital role in the navigation of ships around rocks and land, but they are also a beautiful sight, particularly at night when their blinking beacons are clearly visible to the eye. It occurred to me that lighthouses link the past with the present, and will endure long into the future, with their beacons serving the same purpose for every generation.I became fascinated with the lighthouse on the property of Castle Hill Inn, located at the opening of the East Passage of the Narragansett Bay. This squat thirty-four foot granite structure was erected in 1890 on a very picturesque spot, right at the water’s edge. Its “characteristic,â� �� the nautical term for each lighthouse’s unique light sequence that allows ships to identify the lighthouse, is to alternate on for three seconds, then off for three seconds. The lighthouse has also served as the starting and finish line for numerous high profile yacht races, as well as survived a massive hurricane in 1938, though the lighthouse keeper’s nearby residence wasn’t so lucky. American novelist Thornton Wilder wrote much of his 1973 novel Theophilus North while staying at the Castle Hill Inn; a passage from the book perfectly captures the dual nature of lighthouses:“At a later visit I was able to engage the pentagonal room in a turret above the house; from that magical room I could see at night the beacons of six lighthouses and hear the booming and chiming of as many sea buoys.”In Beacon of the Bay, we first hear the lighthouse’s characteristic as its ruby light blinks on and off. This is followed by a simple theme that represents the lighthouse performing its solitary duty. As the piece progresses, we hear waves playfully lapping around its base, then yachts gracefully floating by; this is followed by a violent storm that churns the waves with so much force that they crash against the lighthouse’s granite body. But the steadfast lighthouse holds firm to the rocks, grandly blinking its ruby light. The music quiets back down to its simple theme, with yachts sailing by once more as the piece concludes.

Clarinet, Violin and Piano

SKU: HL.14021077

Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120865. Published by Music Sales (HL.14021077).

ISBN 9780711984707.

This work was commissioned by the Verdehr Trio and funded by Michigan State University. Includes score and parts, (the score in C). Duration: c. 18 minutes.

Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Edited by Fabien Guilloux and François de Médicis. This edition: urtext edition. Stapled. Performance score, Part. Opus 102. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10958. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Violin (Violin)

SKU: HL.48180241

For Violin and Piano. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Robert King. Classical. Softcover. Alphonse Leduc #AL16892. Published by Alphonse Leduc (HL.48180241).

From Trio No. 1.

By SALTER. For violin, piano. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.114419820

Composed by Lora Al-Ahmad. Set of Score and Parts. 44+12+12 pages. Duration 17 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41982. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419820).

UPC: 680160686148.