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Rosenblatt's work is characterised by an elegant virtuosity. This is a rewarding concert and encore piece, reminiscent of Bach's contrapuntal skills and combines traditional stylistic elements with ne...

This work by 17-year-old Fazil Say is from the early creative period of the Turkish composer. Supported by Aribert Reimann and David Levine, he composed the four pieces for the 750th anniversary of th...

Musicians onstage stand in the limelight and enjoy their fame whereas after performance they become shrouded in a strange fog of isolation.

Heinz Holliger composed the three short pieces of 2014 for the violinist Isabelle Faust. For the dedicatee, they are 'real gems which, in a very intimate way, tell about the composer's soul, about his...

Heinz Holliger composed the three short pieces of 2014 for the violinist Isabelle Faust. For the dedicatee, they are 'real gems which, in a very intimate way, tell about the composer's soul, about his...

Requiem for solo violin, composed by the Georgian composer Igor Loboda for Lisa Batiashvili, is dedicated to the victims of the Ukraine conflict in 2014. It is based on the melody of a Ukrainian folks...

The five movements of this vivid opening to the exhibition are connected through pizzicato intermezzos. The fourth movement demands a second scordatura instrument; the use of little bells and singing...

The short two-part composition refers to two persons by the name of Teresa. One of them was a beautiful Polish actress, the other the favourite model of the painter Balthus. I tried to fuse the charac...

In this short composition, the G and A strings are tuned a half note higher. Due to the extensive use of open strings and natural harmonics, the piece is perfectly suitable as an introduction to scord...

For almost 100 years, violinists had to live without Eugène Ysaÿe's Sonata Op. 27bis. The work was re-discovered in a sketchbook recently given to the library of Brussels' Koninklijk Conservatorium an...

Pietro Nardini was the most important pupil of Tartini regarding both violin playing and composition. Like his teacher, he attached special significance to the beauty of sound and the -suitability for...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

It was the Devil's Trill Sonata that immortalized Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) although said work is just one of a vast number of concertos and sonatas for strings and especially for his instrument, t...

It was the Devil's Trill Sonata that immortalized Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) although said work is just one of a vast number of concertos and sonatas for strings and especially for his instrument, t...

Giuseppe Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata came forth from a dream the composer had in 1713 in which he made a pact with the devil and witnessed the latter's virtuosic playing. After awakening, taken aba...