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In this ballad, Reise ponders the Red Sea Swallow, of which only one was ever found (and dead, at that). The Flight of the Red Sea Swallow imagines the final flight of what may have been the last of its kind.

Tom Purdom of Broad Street Review: "Jay Reise described his Flight of the Red Sea Swallow as “something of a response” to Vaughan Williams’s well-loved The Lark Ascending. It offers the violinist the same opportunities for controlled emotional display, but it describes a more erratic trajectory than Vaughan Williams’s English lark, and it includes encounters with stormier, unpastoral weather.
"The Red Sea Swallow is an ornithological mystery. The only evidence that it exists is a single dead bird. Reise’s haunting opening and closing create a suitable frame for an ode to a creature that may have disappeared at the very moment we discovered it."

Originally written for violin and piano, and premiered by Maria Bachmann, Flight has also been transcribed for flute and piano. For advanced performers. Dur.: 17'

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For the 25th Havana Festival of Contemporary Music, Reise adapted the larger Flight to create the shorter The Ghost of the Red Sea Swallow for flute and piano, premiered by Christina Jennings and James Freeman. As with Flight, The Ghost of the Red Sea Swallow exists in two versions, for flute and for violin. Dur.: 6'

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Robert Baksa's Violin Sonata received its premiere at a concert in 2008 celebrating the composer's 70th birthday. The music is characterized by an effusive melodic dialogue between the solo and the keyboard accompaniment. The outer movements take the shape of Sonata-Allegro forms with some unexpected twists. In contrast, the somewhat austere second movement, fragmented and tragic in tone, breaks the forward movement of the piece. Resuming the optimistic tone, the finale moves energetically forward combining melodic charm with brilliant scale passages. For advanced performers.

Composers Library Edition
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The London Symphony Orchestra, under JoAnn Falletta, has embraced the music of Kenneth Fuchs with performances and multiple recordings. Their third Naxos release features the Divinum Mysterium, written for and performed by LSO's principal Paul Silverthorne, who also gave the premiere with the Adrian (MI) Symphony Orchestra, for whom Fuchs was composer-in-residence. "Divinum Mysterium… gives the violist a chance for virtuosic display, as well as for making some very pretty sounds.." (Lee Passarella, Audiophile Audition) For advanced performers.

Piedmont Music (E.B. Marks)
494-02927 - Score and Part - $61.95  Add to Cart
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While no doubt best known for his electronic music (his Synchronisms No. 6 won him a Pulitzer Prize), Davidovsky continued to compose acoustic music throughout his life. His string quartet writing began at age 17 with No. 1, continuing to String Quartet No. 5 from 1998. E.B. Marks now makes available his third String Quartet from 1976. For advanced performers.

E.B. Marks (MarksPrint)
494-02933 - Score and Parts - $78.99  Add to Cart
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Nicholas Yasillo's wife was much taken with medieval-era decorated volumes of prayers and religious scenes, known as the Book of Hours. As such, he commissioned Garrop for a work in her honor. Garrop appropriately uses her String Quartet No. 4 to describe not just five scenes from The Hours by Catherine of Cleves (c. 1400's), but a reading of the book and personal discovery of each illustration ("Illuminations"). The work was written for the Cecilia Quartet, who gave the premiere in September, 2011. Read more about their performances here. For advanced perfomers. Dur.: 19'

Theodore Presser Company
114-41586 - Complete Set - $62.99  Add to Cart
114-41586S - Score - $23.99  Add to Cart
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It is not surprising that Hailstork's The Surprising Thing Is is full of surprises! He requires a full range of skills and focus from the violinist, but the reward is a 15-minute program piece that juxtaposes "vigorous" passages with slower singing themes. For advanced performers. Dur.: 15'

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Equally demanding of both performers, the Fantasy Piece is an enigmatic wonder, which highlights both instruments. This is a powerful work for a tightly-knit duo, presenting varying moods along the way. For advanced performers. Dur.: 11'

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A short, sprightly, and tightly-knit duo based on a catchy Guyanese melody, Hailstork's Variations is playful yet demanding. For advanced performers.

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The impressive Marian Anderson String Quartet has established a Continuing the Legacy commissioning project, to honor the 75th anniversary of their namesake's performance at the Lincoln Memorial, as well as their own 25th anniversary. Hailstork is one of a handful of American composers invited to create a 21st century string quartet based upon "songs of the African Diaspora." His choice of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot has led to an evocative, but moving string quartet. Also available for string orchestra, on a rental basis. For advanced performers. Dur.: 15'

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Now available in piano reduction, Matheson's Violin Concerto was co-commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and premiered by both orchestras. Written in three "traditional" movements (Caprice, Chaconne, Dance), the Concerto is a demanding and virtuosic composition for advanced performers. Listen to Matheson discussing the Concerto in a YouTube video, and read a review of the West Coast premiere here. For advanced performers. Dur.: 25'

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Robert Baksa's Duo Sonata No.5 is essentially a three movement form interrupted by an improvisatory interlude after the first movement. The major key signals the optimistic tone that permeates the Sonata, along with Baksa's unique contemporary melodic writing, which signals a welcome, new program piece. For advanced performers.

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Cast in four continuous movements, Four Fragments is a ravishing and theatrical showpiece that maximizes the cellist’s lyricism and fire, overflowing with declamatory and cadenza-like soliloquys clearly inspired by the composer’s cultural multi-dimensionalism. Ilona Oltuski at blogcritics.org writes, "New York Times critic Alan Kozinn, who keeps a close watch on Ruo’s artistic development, describes the relationship between East and West in Ruo’s music: 'As in many of his scores, Chinese articulation styles – sliding notes and gracefully bending tones – mingle freely with Western moves and diatonic harmonies.'" For advanced cellists. Dur.: 13'30"

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Three of Carlos Gardel’s famous tangos have been arranged for violin or flute, cello, and piano. These arrangements will make popular concert items and would also be perfect for light entertainment. Diego Collatti's arrangements retain all of the captivating and magnetic charms of the tango made so popular by Gardel in the 1920s and early 1930s. For intermediate to advanced players.

Universal Edition
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Also available —
Tango Violin and Piano - UE035013 - $19.95
Tango Violin Duets - UE033651 - $18.95
Tango Cello and Piano - UE035261 - $19.95
Tango Cello Duets - UE034681 - $19.95

Universal Edition has done violinists an enormous service by republishing violin virtuoso and teacher Leopold Auer’s arrangements of great works for violin and piano, available for the first time in decades. With beautiful new covers, these editions are a welcome addition to the repertoire.

Universal Edition
UE006787 — Score and Part — $14.95  Add to Cart
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Universal Edition
UE007687 — Score and Part — $14.95  Add to Cart
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Universal Edition
UE007689 — Score and Part — $14.95  Add to Cart
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Antonio Vivaldi’s sonatas for violin and basso continuo are among the most valuable works written, and indeed, are of importance comparable to that of the violin sonatas of Corelli and Bach. Within this collection of sonatas, Vivaldi presents a multi-faceted spectrum of forms and possibilities with respect to performance and expression. The new Vienna Urtext Edition is based on both the first Venetian edition and an edition from late 17th-century/early 18th-century Dutch publisher Estienne Roger. Drawn from these sources, we now have a much more logical musical text. This edition contains a solo violin part and a continuo score with realized basso continuo as well as a figured bass part, giving experienced continuo players the opportunity to improvise on the basso continuo part, and can also be used by a continuo cellist. For intermediate to advanced-level players.

Vienna Urtext
UT050176 — Score and Parts — $44.95  Add to Cart
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All of these pieces, best suited for young cellists in their earliest stages of learning, can be performed as solos or in unison with others. Some have an optional second part, allowing them to serve as ensemble material. This book ends with a special section comprised of four key-friendly pieces with four different parts, ideal for mixed instrumental groups. Young players can start developing ensemble skills at a very early level. Cello Debut also includes a CD of instrumental and piano accompaniments, making for a fun play-along experience. For beginning players.

Universal Edition
UE021534 — Cello Book and CD — $19.95  Add to Cart
UE021535 — Piano Accompaniment Book — $22.95  Add to Cart
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Arranged here for 8 cellos, Arvo Pärt's Summa is a brief work of pure, intense beauty, with his trademark "tintinnabulation" style in full effect. For advanced players.

Universal Edition
UE035000 — Score — $22.95  Add to Cart
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Peter Schickele’s prodigious catalog contains a wealth of chamber music for a wide spectrum of ensembles, including those for strings with and without piano. But when the Alaria Trio approached Schickele to compose a work to premiere in Carnegie Hall, it was a perfect opportunity to compose his first work for this scoring. In four movements as “absolute” music without subtitles, Piano Trio “Alaria” is a treasure of song and dance. For advanced performers. Dur.: 16'30"

Elkan-Vogel, Inc.
164-00282 - Score and Parts - $29.99  Add to Cart
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Joshua Bell calls Igudesman "a formidable violinist, a brilliant comedian, and composer / arranger of uncanny versatility," which has previously been displayed in his Celtic Violin Duets, Klezmer Violin Duets, and Latin and More Violin Duets. Here, Igudesman turns his world view to Asia, with tunes from Turkey, the Phillipines, China, Japan, and more. Brief notes and performance suggestions are provided for all. For advanced performers.

Universal Edition
UE033654 - Score - $22.95  Add to Cart
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As part of Series A of the The Complete Works of Henryk Wieniawski, PWM Edition releases this work for violin with piano accompaniment, a spectacular composition imbued with folk atmosphere and full of brilliant virtuosity. For advanced players.

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
514-05358 - Score and Solo Part - $29.95  Add to Cart

Ewazen ended his tenure as Composer-in-Residence with Saint Luke's Chamber Ensemble (NY) with his Concerto for Violin, premiered by that ensemble with violinist Krista Feeney as soloist. A subsequent recording by the International Sejong Soloists had rave reviews, including, "it was like a long, slow drink of cool, clear spring water to a parched throat." See a YouTube video of the 2nd movement, as performed by students of Deerfield High School. For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
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Ruiz Lastres is a Cuban composer with over 100 varied works, multiple awards and honors, and is a major presence in music education in Cuba. It is natural that Hildegard Publishing founder Sylvia Glickman, on a trip to Havana, would meet with this composer and be so impressed as to browse her body of work. Glickman was especially taken with this Fantasia con Habanera, a three-movement original work, which captures elements of Cuban folk music, together with Ruiz Lastres' contemporary paradigm. Violin and piano play off of each other in a well-balanced dance-like atmosphere, perfect as the premiere Hildegard edition of this composer. For intermediate to advanced performers.

Hildegard Music Publishing
494-02897 - $14.95  Add to Cart
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From the composer: “The Four Winds reflects musical influences and connotations from the East, North, West and South. As a symbol for the various musical inspirations of the compositions, I have used the traditional names of the four winds (Anemoi) according to Greek mythology… When listening to The Four Winds musical ideas from faraway places can be heard. Without moving air, there wouldn’t be any music. Music does not fall from the sky (a truly romantic idea). It travels the world. It moves from horizon to horizon.” For advanced violinists.

Universal Edition
UE070362 - $19.95  Add to Cart
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This 5-minute plaintive elegy was composed in memory of Milton Babbitt — a touching tribute by one of America’s great composers eulogizing another. For advanced players. Dur.: 5’

Theodore Presser Company
114-41518 — $5.95  Add to Cart
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Adolphus Hailstork
Little Diversions for Lord Byron's Court
Two Violins or Two Violas

A set of four movements (Fanfare and March, Lullaby, Dance, and Fanfare and Hallelujah March) brings Hailstork's rhythmic and melodic writing to string duo. Available for two violins or for two violas, Little Diversions offers a new challenge for a tight-knit duo, with its flowing and punctuated interplay. For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41203 — Two Violins — $17.99  Add to Cart
114-41557 — Two Violas — $17.99  Add to Cart
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Truly masterful in her ability to marry Western performance ideals with the folk music of China, Chen Yi wrote this plaintive memorial work in tribute to the passing of her teacher, Professor Lin Yaoji. In the program notes, the composer speaks to her mentor: “I wish you could hear the tune in my Memory, which sounds like my painful cry out of your name in our Cantonese dialect. I expressed my deep sorrow in the music, to remember your fatherly mentorship. Your meaningful smile will always be with us encouragingly.” Dur.: 3’30”

Theodore Presser Company
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In the Register-Star, John Paul Keeler writes, "[Baksa] is a true independent artist who dares to write real music. All the elements of the best in Western music are part of his musical palette. His music is Neo Nothing but pure Baksa." And of Occasional Variations, "a stunning work of 2005 in 6 movements for violin and piano... a brilliant tour de force." See sample pages (PDF)

Composers Library Edition 494-02898 — $39.95  Add to Cart

Isaac Albéniz
Prélude (No. 1 de España, Op. 165) and Asturias (Leyenda, No. .5 de la Suite española, Op. 47)
Arranged by Elina Kuperman
Violin Solo

Kuperman presents two popular Albéniz piano pieces in transcription for violin solo. A clear, annotated score brings a faithful translation to the advanced violinist. Total dur.: 10'30".

Billaudot
514-05453 - $13.95  Add to Cart
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Henryk Wieniawski
2me Polonaise brillante, Op. 21
Edited by Sofia Chechlinska
Violin and Piano

Henryk Wieniawski Complete Works Series A, Volume 4

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (PWM)
514-05479 - Score and Parts - $29.95  Add to Cart
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Henryk Wieniawski
Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op. 16
Edited by Magdalena Chylinska
Violin and Piano

Henryk Wieniawski Complete Works Series A, Volume 20

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (PWM)
514-05480 - Score and Parts - $39.95  Add to Cart
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Henryk Wieniawski
Romance sans paroles et Rondo élégant
   pour violon avec accompagnement de piano, Op. 9
Edited by Magdalena Chylińska
Violin and Piano

As part of Series A of the The Complete Works of Henryk Wieniawski, PWM Edition releases this work for violin with piano accompaniment, another pièce de salon. Wieniawski composed this piece at the age of seventeen, during a Russian concert tour with his brother, pianist Józef. Its melody is akin to that of a melancholic Russian dumka or a Gypsy romance.

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne 514-03965 • $28.95  Add to Cart

Matheson's Sonata was written for and dedicated to Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, staunch supporters of chamber music both classical and contemporary since its founding in 1988. The list of performers and performances over the years is impressive, and the Matheson Sonata is one of but ten commissions over that span. See sample pages here (PDF).

Theodore Presser Company 114-41415 — Score and Part — $36.95  Add to Cart

Aleksey Igudesman
Sonata No. 3
Violin and Piano

Universal Edition UE034381 - $32.95  Add to Cart
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After careful study of the original scores, Lidia Baich and Matthias Fletzberger have managed to capture the colorful and diverse sound of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet with only two instruments. Both violin and piano function as equal solo instruments, rather than the piano serving as accompaniment only. For advanced players.

Universal Edition
UE035348 - $44.95  Add to Cart
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In response to the enthusiasm that met Tango Violin Duets, Universal Edition published these arrangements for violin and piano. The timbre of the violin is exceptionally well suited to evoking the musical riches of Argentina’s past, as well as giving new life to Gardel’s tango music. Some of his most well- known pieces are featured in this volume, such as Melodia de arraval, Mi Buenos Aires querido, Volver, Por Una Cabeza, and El dia que me quieras. Diego Collatti’s arrangements retain all the captivating, magnetic charms we associate with the Tango. Suitable for intermediate to advanced violinists.

Universal Edition
UE035013 — Score and Part — $19.95  Add to Cart
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Also available —
Tango Violin Duets - UE033651 - $18.95
Tango Cello and Piano - UE035261 - $19.95
Tango Cello Duets - UE034681 - $19.95
Tango Trio - UE035581 - $29.95

At the request of violinist Martin Chalifour, Steven Stucky has adapted three movements of his orchestral work Pinturas de Tamaya for violin with piano. Chalifour's premiere recording is now available.

Merion Music, Inc.
144-40433 - Score and Part - $28.99  Add to Cart
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Intimately familiar with the Brahms Trio for the same forces, Ewazen uses that masterpiece as a starting point for his own four movement creation. The Trio was commissioned by Chamberosity, who premiered and recorded the work. (Listen to excerpts here) For advanced performers. Dur.: 21'

Theodore Presser Company
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James Rae expands his Debut series with a collection of beginning pieces for violinists. Although all can be played solo, several are designed for ensemble playing in unison (or optional second part), with optional piano accompaniment (separate volume), or can even played with other instruments using their own Debut books. The violin book includes a CD with demonstration recordings and accompaniment tracks for home study. For beginning violinists, individually or in classes.

Universal Edition
UE021532 - Violin Book & CD - $19.95  Add to Cart
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UE021533 - Piano Accompaniments - $21.95  Add to Cart
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Pann's Differences is originally a suite for cello and piano, "comprised of five short movements, very much like a Baroque suite or partita. The individual pieces, however, are radically different from each other in style and content." (Kennedy) Robert Carl, writing in Fanfare Magazine, said of Differences, "There's a very strong influence of middle Stravinsky, but there's also a wailing blues movement, and most happily, a third movement dance that is perhaps the first "neo-Gottschalk" piece I've ever heard." We are pleased to present Pann's transcription of the work for viola. For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41389 - Viola and Piano - $30.95  Add to Cart
Also available: 114-41210 - Cello and Piano - $30.95  Add to Cart
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Astor Piazzolla’s well-loved Le Grand Tango has been arranged here for solo viola with piano. A perfect concert piece. Also available for viola with string orchestra and piano.

Edizioni Bèrben
514-05440 — Score and Parts — $29.95  Add to Cart
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Martin Amlin’s Kennel is a suite of seven movements, each inspired by one of the seven groups of dog breeds defined by the American Kennel Club. Kennel’s music has all the charm suggested by its warm imagery, as well as the excitement and energy that drives Amlin’s rhythmically-infused concert music. For advanced players. Dur.: 13’

Theodore Presser Company
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Commissioned by the virtuoso violist Melia Watras, Perfect Storm is the perfect showcase for the accomplished performer. The work demands focus, control, and mastery of the instrument, but rewards us with a perfect gem from Pulitzer prize winner Shulamit Ran. We are pleased to see that the world premiere by Watras is available on YouTube, along with an introduction by the composer. See it here. For advanced performers. Dur.: 10'30"

Theodore Presser Company
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Katherine Hoover’s Shadows was written in response to the 9/11 attacks on New York City, meant to depict the black cloud settling over the island of Manhattan. It was premiered on February 22, 2009 at Bard College, with Marka Gustavson, violist, and Lisa Moore, pianist. For advanced players.

Papagena Press
PP182 - Score and Solo Part - $17.95  Add to Cart

Also available for solo violin (114-40413), Finko's Lamentations of Jeremiah was written especially for Russian viola virtuoso Alexey Ludevig, who premiered the work. Read more about Finko's collaboration with Ludevig in this article from The Journal of the American Viola Society. For advanced performers. Dur.: 12'

Theodore Presser Company
114-41437 — $17.95  Add to Cart
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Amlin, a highly-regarded pianist in his own right, chairs the Composition and Theory Department at Boston University. Violist Michelle LaCourse chairs the String Department. These two incredible musicians paired up for the recent recording, Chocolates: Music for Viola and Piano by James Grant, and have created a genuine "treat" for fans of both instruments. It is fitting, then, that Amlin dons his composer hat to create this viola and piano duo, dedicated to his distinguished recording partner. For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41446 — Score and part — $23.95  Add to Cart
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Composers find inspiration in infinite forms: personal, ambient, or far-flung. Here, Martin is tasked with capturing a dream, a sense, a mental image, and rendering it musically. That task has resulted in this unusual, four-movement solo, a silently-floating cello speaking across the sound-barrier of space. For advanced performers. Dur.: 9'

Merion Music, Inc.
144-40446 — Score — $15.95  Add to Cart
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Charcoal Landscape explores the possibilities created by adding the low voice of the cello to a typically treble-heavy ensemble. The cello weaves in and out of the flute ensemble, sometimes as a soloist and sometimes as an ensemble member. The piece is highly melodic and lyrical and alternates between dream-like sections and rhythmic dance sections. This work was premiered by the Nashua Flute Choir in March of 2012 with Boston cellist Emmanuel Feldman at the community house of Hamilton and Wenham, South Hamilton, Massachusetts. For advanced players. Dur.: 4’15”

Falls House Press
FC-LDL1 - Score and Parts - $21.95  Add to Cart
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Bernhard Heinrich Romberg
Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Op. 3
Cello part edited by Gautier Capuçon (after Loeb)
Cello and Piano reduction

Romberg’s Concerto No. 2 in D Major for cello and piano has been edited here by Gautier Capuçon after the J. Loeb edition. For advanced players. Dur.” 21’

Billaudot
514-05489 — Score and Part — $33.95  Add to Cart
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Also published for string quartet and for string orchestra, Da pacem Domine is here presented in a version for eight cellos (or four). See also the study score for a version for 8-part chorus and orchestra. For intermediate to advanced performers. Dur.: 4' - 5'

Universal Edition
UE034985 - Score and Parts - $26.95  Add to Cart
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We are pleased to make available Shapey's For Lucy, a deceptively simple cello solo paired with a somewhat demanding piano accompaniment. For intermediate to advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
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Baksa ponders the sound of one cello bowing and composes his Partita, a five-movement concert work which extends a line of solo cello works going back centuries to the original inspiration, Bach. The alternating slow-fast sections lead well from one to the next, but can easily stand alone. For advanced cellists.

Composers Library Editions
494-02906 — Score — $20.95  Add to Cart
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Composed for the impressive cellist Scott Kluksdahl, who premiered the work in 1993 at a Network for New Music Concert (Philadelphia). Kluksdahl also recorded Lament on his Lines for Solo Cello album, along with works by Richard Wernick, Ralph Shapey, Gunther Schuller, and others. For advanced performers. Dur.: 11'. See sample pages here in PDF.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41000 • $13.95  Add to Cart

Dvorák’s Légende, Op. 95, originally composed for orchestra, is transcribed here for eight cellos. For advanced ensembles. Dur.: 14’

Billaudot
514-05396 — Score and Parts — $45.95  Add to Cart
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It seems only natural that Ewazen's beautiful Midlands Melody, originally written for bass trombone, has been co-opted by cellists, since the melodic line lays so well upon the strings. Dedicated to the young and promising cellist, Najette Abouelhadi, this is now Ewazen's "official" transcription for cello. For intermediate to advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
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Commissioned for Joel Sandelson who premiered the work in London's Wigmore Hall, Lowell Liebermann's Sonata No. 4 for Violoncello and Piano is a 13-minute work in one continuous movement. The sonata is featured on Dmitri Atapine's new CD (Blue Griffin BGR255) that includes all 4 Liebermann cello sonatas. For advanced players.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41423 - Score and Part - $16.99  Add to Cart
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Zyman's solo cello showcase is a suite of five diverse movements, exploring both lightness and depth of the instrument. This fascinating and involved performance piece was recorded in 2008 by master cellist Carlos Prieto on the album Seven World Premieres. Prieto had previously performed Zyman's Suite for Two Cellos with Yo-Yo Ma to sold-out audiences, and this new solo outing should find equal praise. For advanced performers. Dur.: 15'

Merion Music, Inc.
144-40542 — Score — $17.95  Add to Cart
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Diego Collatti brings the popular Gardel tangos to the cello. Five world-class tangos, including the frequent film star "Por una cabeza," are arranged for cello and piano, and also available in Collatti's previous release for cello duo (below, UE034681, $19.95). For advanced players.

Universal Edition
UE035261 - Score and Part - $19.95  Add to Cart
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Also available —
Tango Violin and Piano - UE035013 - $19.95
Tango Violin Duets - UE033651 - $18.95
Tango Cello Duets - UE034681 - $19.95
Tango Trio - UE035581 - $29.95

Another commissioned work has Ewazen borrowing from his own The Eternal Dance of Life for a special new gift for cello and piano. The composer says it best: "As a former cellist in my youth, I have always loved the instrument, and have enjoyed writing for it. The work contains swirling arpeggiated gestures, a lilting compound meter and a real sense of expressivity, allowing the cello to sing with soaring lines and genuine lyricism." For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41550 - Score and Part - $23.99  Add to Cart
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Mozart's KV191, originally for bassoon and orchestra, has become a standard for doublebass repertoire. In Dubugnon's new edition, he includes a secondary piano accompaniment, to accommodate tunings in C or in D, and offers his own cadenzas for the first two movements, encouraging students to play them as they are, or to use them as a starting point in creating their own.

Billaudot
514-05452 - Score and Parts - $39.95  Add to Cart
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Reise brings his signature rhythmic impulses to his 2004 quartet, the intricate Across the Horizons. Although many point to the instrumentation as a "Messiaen quartet" (Quatuor pour le fin du temps), let there be no further comparison. Reise, who was earlier introduced to Carnatic rhythms of South India music and who finds ways of incorporating them into his own, has taken us on a significant journey in three movements. As always, Reise's music attracts the finest performers - Across the Horizons has been recorded by Charles Abramovic (piano), Allison Herz (clarinet), Karen Bentley Pollick (violin), and Michal Schmidt (cello). For more on the music of Jay Reise, see this in-depth article from Fanfare. For advanced performers.

Merion Music, Inc.
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James Rae presents four accessible arrangements, designed to introduce beginners to ensemble playing. Although each part is fairly easy, they are adequate as performance pieces and all parts hold equal weight. An optional piano part is included to fill out the sound, if desired, or to help with rehearsals. A full complement of parts are also included, covering a variety of strings, winds, and brass. Pieces include All Through the Night, Skip to My Lou, the St. Anthony Chorale, and Rae's original Ridgeway Rock. For beginners.

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Hailstork has a knack for composing with a clearly "American" sound - hard to define, but immediately recognizable as such. This challenging duet features three diverse movements of Americana, as distilled through Hailstork's own contemporary compositional vision. For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41228 - Score and Parts - $48.99  Add to Cart
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Often called "the Ellis Island of the West," Angel Island in San Francisco was used as an immigration station in the first half of the 20th century, processing some one million Asian immigrants. Because of U.S. policy of the time, many spent years on Angel Island awaiting entry. Recently named a National Historical Landmark, Angel Island and its history is the inspiration behind Chen Yi's Angel Island Passages, commissioned by the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Chen explores the experiences of the immigrants, even using poems carved in the walls, to express the mood, the patient yearning, and the ultimate release and embrace of a new country. Angel Island Passages was premiered June 4-5, 2010 by the SFGC and the Cypress String Quartet at the San Francisco Conservatory. For advanced performers. Dur.: 15'

Theodore Presser Company
312-41859 — Choral Score — $7.95  Add to Cart
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Eric Ewazen
The Art of the City
Clarinet, Horn, String Quartet

Ewazen describes in detail the genesis of The Art of the City, for whom it was written, and the inspirations behind its descriptive movements. The work consists of five wholly-developed sections, each suitable for performance separately, or together as a 25-minute suite. For advanced performers. Dur.: 25'

Theodore Presser Company
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Inspired by his son’s cello lessons while studying composition at Bard College, Peter Schickele’s Autumn Trio consists of three movements: “Mosaic,” “Intermezzo,” and “Tarantella (La vache qui rit).” The playful finale is based on the image of a dancing cow, laughing and flinging herself around the pasture. For advanced players. Dur.: 14’

Elkan-Vogel
164-00278 — Score and Parts — $28.95  Add to Cart
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The Bridgehampton Chamber Musicians and Marya Martin, to whom this quartet is dedicated, now offer an all-Ewazen recording, featuring this wonderful three-movement entry for flute and strings, along with the premiere recording of his new Sonata No. 1 for flute and piano.

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With great pleasure, Theodore Presser Company announced in February the signing of Eric Ewazen, a much-lauded composer with an established and impressive body of work. We are proud to offer in this month's new releases a sampling of his previously unpublished works, including the following excellent performance pieces available on Custom Print. Reviews include the word "goosebumps" and orchestral trumpeter Phil Collins, in his blog Trumpet Matters, sums it up perfectly, "Ewazen was Ewazen! How could one not like his stuff? It is always enjoyable at first hearing!" This, after hearing a performance of Ewazen's Eternal Spring, listed below. For more information about Ewazen, see our Composers Gallery page.

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Robert Baksa's writings have been described by contemporary music lovers as almost a "guilty pleasure." Certainly, the constructs fit in well with 20th and 21st century composition, but Baksa also never forgets a melodic line, a listenable quality that impresses a growing fan base upon first hearing. Adding to a healthy catalog of instrumental music, Baksa here pairs the upper strings in contrasting movements; where the first is marked "Melancholy," the second is "Quite fast - Angrily." For advanced performers.

Composers Library Edition
494-02904 — Score and Parts — $44.95  Add to Cart
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Robert Baksa
Duo Sonata No. 4
Violin and Viola

Baksa's fourth Sonata for violin and viola is a single movement, developing through interplay to an ultimate fortissimo break, followed by a reprise to a quiet, gentle finale. For advanced performers.

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494-02923 - Set of 2 Scores - $37.50  Add to Cart
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Newly available is Baksa's 1983 Duo Variations, which was premiered (and often performed) by the Bronx Arts Ensemble. Of a recent performance by the Da Capo Chamber Players, John Keeler of the Hudson-Catskill Newspapers wrote, ""...beautiful, exquisitely felt...This masterful fourteen minute work was one of the glories of the evening. It had stunning melody and sonority with a poetic impulse and piquant rhythm." For advanced performers.

Composers Library Edition
494-02901 — Score and Parts — $52.95  Add to Cart
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Written for and premiered by The Saratoga Performing Arts Center in 2005, Ranjbaran's Enchanted Garden is now made available. Three evocative movements (Rapture, Peace from Despair, Fragrance of Joy) make up this beautiful piano quintet, a superb example of Ranjbaran's synthesis of impressions of ancient Iran with his unique compositional style. For advanced performers. Dur.: 17'

Theodore Presser Company
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The amazing pianist Jeffrey Biegel set out to form a new piano trio, Trio21, with the idea of bringing forth new works by new composers for the 21st century. With its debut performance at Bargemusic in September 2011, Trio21 played Mozart and Brahms, and the world premiere of Fuchs' new Falling Trio, written especially for them. The new piano trio takes its starting point and name from Fuchs' major work, Falling Man, which was also premiered almost exactly 10 years after the events of 9/11. For advanced performers. Dur.: 13'

E.B. Marks (MarksPrint)
494-02915 - Complete Set - $113.95  Add to Cart
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Theodore Presser Company is pleased to sign this impressive young composer and to welcome his work to our catalog. Already much-lauded as an innovative new voice in concert music, he continues to grow and expand his musical outlook.

Dur: 10' (2009) — See pages from the score (PDF, 813KB)

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See more works for strings in combination with woodwinds here...

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Astor Piazzolla’s well-loved Le Grand Tango has been arranged here for solo viola with string orchestra and piano. A perfect concert piece. Also available for viola and piano.

Edizioni Bèrben
514-05439 — Score and Parts — $73.95  Add to Cart
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Undoubtedly the best of Chopin’s rondos, Krakowiak, Op. 14 was written in Warsaw between 1825 and 1828 at the last stage of the composer’s studies with Joseph Eisner. Its brilliant style is combined with the atmosphere of folk music in a masterly manner, and folk tunes can be recognized in almost every theme. This arrangement is based on the widely-known score edited by Kazimierz Sikorski in the Paderewski edition, Complete Works Vol. 21. The main purpose was to arrange the orchestra part for chamber instruments as faithfully as possible and to attain an approximation in the orchestral sound throughout with a reduced ensemble. For advanced players. Dur.: 13’20”

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
554-02358 — Score and Parts — $79.95  Add to Cart
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An unsual grouping of instruments is used in this unusual and intricate performance piece, which was inspired by the incredible Buddhist mandalas (or cosmograms). Ewazen infuses the work with his impressions of three specific mandalas that captured him, as well as performance touches that reflect Buddhist tradition and practices. The three movement work is dedicated to the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. For advanced performers. Dur.: 24'

Theodore Presser Company
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Paderewski's famous Minuet in G gets the Voyage Unlimited treatment, which means a transformation into an exciting new program piece for flute and string quartet. This is the fourth such arrangement from flutist Don Bailey and orchestrator Adam Manijak, following the previously-released Tchaikovsky November, Köhler Papillon, and Ravel Sonatine. For intermediate to advanced performers.

Falls House Press
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Commissioned by a large consortium for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, along with violist Michael Tree and contrabassist Harold Robinson, Zwilich infuses her new quintet with characteristic depth, sparkle, and fresh sonorities, plus a special blues-inspired homage to Schubert’s “Trout” theme. Parts available on rental. Dur.: 21’

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444-41031 - Score — $30.00  Add to Cart
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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner plus a Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA Commission equals an exciting new performance piece for this combination of instruments. The commissioning groups, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and Empyrean Ensemble, have both performed the work to excellent reviews. "A well-crafted and tasteful piece... A series of five short episodes written in sort of lyrical, expressionist mode... An appealing piece, and its evolving textures showcased the group’s excellent sense of ensemble." (Benjamin Frandzel, in the San Francisco Classical Voice) For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41499 — Score and Parts — $87.95  Add to Cart
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While researching an inspiring Appalachian folk song, Garrop has discovered multiple variants, all with similar themes, differing outcomes. From three of these variants, she has crafted a lyric piano trio for advanced performers. Watch a complete performance at ChicagoBulletin.com by The Lincoln Trio (for whom the work was written), and see sample pages here in PDF. Dur.: 5'

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In his third Duo Sonata for violin and viola, Baksa returns to a more optimistic tone - a marked contrast to the somber mood of his Duo Sonata No. 2. This new and energetic duo is in three movements, with a delightful presto finale. For intermediate to advanced.

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These flexible arrangements sound excellent when played by any combination of strings, from a duet to a full string orchestra. Some of these arrangements can be tackled by near-beginners, and others are more demanding. The challenges offered in the more advanced pieces all occur in user-friendly situations which should enable developing players to enjoy using their new skills.

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Primosch's String Quartet No. 3 sets out as a theme and variations, but a sudden Fantasia finds its way into the mix. Upon returning to another variation, we find elements of the Fantasia now appearing, leading to a viola cadenza and the ultimate unison re-statement of a slow variation. Composed for the Ying Quartet and commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, String Quartet No. 3 had its premiere in 1999. For advanced performers. Dur.: 20'

Merion Music, Inc.
144-40398 — Complete Set — $66.95  Add to Cart
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Kenneth Fuchs
String Quartet No. 5 "American"
Two Violins, Viola, Cello

A four-movement wonder for accomplished string quartets, the "American" demands focus and intimate cooperation for a successful performance. Watch a YouTube performance by the DelRay Quartet, for whom it was written, while reading a glowing review of the premiere performance here. Watch for its release on Naxos in April 2013. For advanced performers.

E.B. Marks (MarksPrint)
494-02922 - Score and Parts - $234.95  Add to Cart
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Adler's ninth turn at string quartet composition was written for the Esterházy Quartet, who were pleased to perform the world premiere in April, 2009 with the composer in attendance. Violinist Susan Jensen described the work as energetic, spirited, humorous and celebratory. The premiere follows an all-Adler 80th birthday celebration by the Esterházy in the previous year, so this new String Quartet No. 9 is a treat. Three of the four movements proceed at a fast pace, and the Quartet is for advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
114-41516 — Complete Set — $75.95  Add to Cart
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Kennedy's first composition for string quartet was the result of a commission by Musica Reginae, although the composer was eager to write for such an ensemble, anyway. The Suite was entered under the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Project 440, where it garnered such comments as, "Excitement, energy, beauty, craft are all here," and "This composer definitely has the knack to write for strings." Read more about the Suite at the Project 440 page here (with 5-minute audio clip). For advanced performers. Duration: 15'

Theodore Presser Company
114-41511 — Complete Set — $60.95  Add to Cart
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Another signature work by Pärt is Summa, available in several arrangements, and finally now arranged for string quartet. Listeners describe the "push and pull" of the strings, a birth of Spring, the motion of a train. In truth, Pärt's music frees the mind to explore such imagery, which may account for his ever-growing popularity. For intermediate to advanced.

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E. B. Marks presents a unique synthesis of musical style, as seen through the prism of Curtis Curtis-Smith. Elements of popular styles cannot be avoided, throughout this piano trio, described by the composer as "not...a collage or pastiche...but rather an organically expanding form." Commissioned by, dedicated to, and premiered by the New Arts Trio, Sweetgrass has further been championed by the Merling Trio, who recorded the work in 1994. For advanced performers.

E. B. Marks (MarksPrint)
494-02902 — Score only — $49.95  Add to Cart
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The piccolo sings above a string quartet accompaniment in the liquid, melodic, sometimes challenging writing that signifies a Schocker work. For advanced performers.

Falls House Press
CW-GS49 - Score and Parts - $19.95  Add to Cart
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Adolphus Hailstork’s Three Spirituals for string trio is the “perfect storm,” as his inspirations from African-American and European traditions cross-pollinate. Hailstork’s elegant setting of We Shall Overcome is treated like a Bach chorale prelude, Kum Ba Yah is a meditation tinged with gospel harmonies, and Great Day is a no-holds-barred exuberant finale!

Theodore Presser Company
114-41532 — Score and Parts — $14.99  Add to Cart
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Leisner's Vision of Orpheus has brought world-class guitarist Jason Vieaux to comment, "It's not easy to write substantial, intelligent, deeply emotional music that maintains its appeal to a wide range of listeners. David's first-rate!" Read many more comments and listen to the work at WQXR. This is Leisner in his element, writing for his instrument. For advanced performers. Dur.: 18'

Merion Music, Inc.
144-40540 — Complete Set — $59.95  Add to Cart
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