SKU: HL.49003314

ISBN 9790220119880. UPC: 884088053444. 9.0x12.0x0.177 inches.

This volume presents a mixed and varied collection of jazzy violin arrangements with piano accompaniments. Contents: Down by the Riverside * Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home * East Virginia Blues * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * La Paloma * The American Patrol * Frankie and Johnny * O Sole Mio. Includes score and pull-out violin part.

SKU: HL.48025035

ISBN 9783793142607. UPC: 196288020790. 9.0x12.0x0.171 inches.

With Berlin Music, Brett Dean wrote a threefold homage: to the classical duo consisting of violin and piano; to the violin virtuoso Midori, for whom the piece was written; and to the city of Berlin, where he lived between the mid-1980s and 2000 and whose rich cultural life he owes much to his development as a musician and composer. The first four, relatively short movements of the five-movement work form a suite of character pieces, which is followed by a longer final movement. In summary, this turns out to be the actual main movement from which all motifs and harmonies emerged in a compositional manner. This includes tuning down the G side by a whole tone - an apparently small difference, but one that has a major effect on the timbre and resonance of the instrumentand suddenly makes previously impossible interval sequences playable. In addition, the violin in the third movement (a moto perpetuo in which Dean bows to Ravel's violin sonata) has to play with a practice damper, while the pianist changes the instrument and plays on a standing piano that is dampened by a pedal and placed next to the concert grand Expressing nervous energy in tight college spaces.

SKU: HL.48025445

ISBN 9783793145820. UPC: 196288216438.

Hans Winterberg's extraordinary life was written in two chapters, one Czech and one German, split right down the middle by the experience of the Shoah, which Winterberg, unlike his colleagues Ullmann, Krása, Haas and Klein, miraculously survived. In 1947, the Prague-born composer moved to Munich, where he worked for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation. As a student of Alexander Zemlinsky and Alois Hába, he belongs both to the Czech tradition following Janácek and to the circle of the Second Viennese School. He saw himself as a bridge builder between Western and Eastern culture. The circumstances under which Winterberg was able to compose during the war years are still unclear. Although his “mixed marriage” initially saved him from deportation, he had to perform forced labour and was eventually sent to the Terezin ghetto in January 1945. The Suite for Violin and Piano was composed in 1942, the year in which both Winterberg's mother and his piano professor Thérèse Wallerstein were murdered by the Nazis. Compared to the violin sonata from 1936, the Suite is much more condensed, lasting less than seven minutes. A melody dominated by chromatic turns and expressionist harmony lend the work its melancholy character, which gives way, however, to an almost irrepressible defiance in the rhythmically percussive last movement.

SKU: HL.48024761

ISBN 9781784545246. UPC: 888680962548. 9.0x12.0x0.142 inches.

Seven Pint-Sized Pieces may be performed complete as a seven-movement work. Each piece may also be performed separately, or a selection together in any combination. Includes: Nostalgia * A Merry Jaunt * Song Without Words * Vlad's Vamp * A Birthday Chorale * Hilary's Hoedown * Cleethorpes Chorale.