Partitions difficile pour Violon

The Adagio of Aram Khatchaturian's Spartacus was the title theme of the TV series The Onedin Line. This arrangement for violin and piano creates a colourful and diverse sound image and makes sure that...

In this second Sonata Krzysztof Penderecki shows the fruits of almost five decades of continuing artistic development. While the first Sonata by the 20 year-old student was already a remarkable stylis...

Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who died in March 1999, was both the founder and for 40 years the guiding spirit of the summer music festival that is named after him in the Swiss town of Gstaad. The Gstaad festiv...

You can even play a duet on a solo instrument! In his piece! In notes spread across two systems the violin displays its characteristic contrasting qualities. The instrument contradicts itself: staccat...

Volker David Kirchner's works encompass every genre. His Three Meditations for Violoncello were theatrical in their inspiration, were as the Pietà for solo violin exploits the full technical range of...

These attributes mentioned here: Ease -Swiftness - Precision - Vividness - Complexity - are used by Benjamin Schweitzer as signposts for putting the pop into the weasel in his solo violin part. Out of...

Like Holliger's standard work Trema (a piece made up of theme, tremolo and breathing), Souvenirs tremaësques too can be played by various instruments of the string family. After the original version f...

Deep Slavic emotion and riveting virtuosity - this is what characterises many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin has re...

Ces compositions, dont c'est la première publication, sont particulièrement intéressantes car elles représentent deux périodes de création : Poème lyrique fut écrit dans les années 1910 et montre la r...

Schott présente ici en première publication les pièces que Hans Werner Henze a écrites en l'honneur d'anniversaires ou en hommage à des amis et compagnons de route. Chacune d'elles est un véritable jo...

'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...

I wrote the first movement of my Sommersonate in the summer of 2010, and though a self-contained work, it called out for continuation or a companion piece. I imagine the first movement, marked moderat...

This work, composed in 1990 at the suggestion of the violinist Saschko Gawriloff, is in the tradition of great virtuoso violin concertos. Originally consisting of three movements, the work was revised...

In this sonata, calm passages alternate with extremely lively ones in traditional style. The piano plays in chordal style most of the time as real accompaniment, with polyphonic ensemble playing not b...

En prenant pour titre La Follia, Krzysztof Penderecki se place dans la tradition vivante remontant à l'époque baroque de la variation artistiquement virtuose d'un thème de sarabande. Il en livre neuf...

On se souvient de Stanley Weiner (1925-1991) surtout comme violoniste soliste, prédéterminé musicalement par son père qui fut, entre autres, premier violon solo suppléant de l'Orchestre symphonique de...

Der auf Sylt geborene und in Marburg verstorbene Gustav Jenner komponierte drei Violinsonaten, darunter diese 1893 komponierte Sonate in B-Dur. Jenner wurde 1888 Schüler Johannes Brahms' und übernahm...