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From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement of the Andante from Mozart's masterful piano sonata caputures the essence of the classical style.

Taken from the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement captures the traditional Klezmer style while featuring the fast dance in 4/4 called the Bulgar.

This lively setting of a traditional 19th-century English text (interspersed with a Latin refrain) recaptures the spirit of Bullard's earlier Angel Alleluias. With its straightforward harmony, snappy,...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement beautifully preserves the style of Czech folk music found in Dvo?ák's original, and the contrast of major and minor sections.

On Christmas Night is a sequence of eight carols with a variety of performance options. Chilcott uses several familiar carol melodies within his own settings, which employ a wide range of styles and m...

An arrangement of Scenes 5 and 12 from a projected stage-work on the life of Tchaikovsky. They are identical in structure and draw on the set of Russian folk songs that Tchaikovsky arranged for piano-...

This hauntingly beautiful piece is extracted from Rutter's large-scale work Visions. The expressive solo line features long phrases, double stopping in thirds and sixths, and a quasi-improvised sectio...

This enchanting setting brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text. The dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling folk-like melody through each of the voice part...

Victoria opens this motet with a dramatic homophonic account of Judas's betrayal of Jesus, similar to the opening of another of his responsory settings, Jesum tradidit impius, before a contrasting sec...

The composer writes: The structure is a short set of double variations, the two themes following a short introduction. One is flamboyant and rhetorical, the other gentle and lyrical. The first develop...

This equisite Fantasia on the timeless English folk song 'Greensleeves' was arranged for violin and piano by Michael Mullinar based on music from Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love.

This is a compelling setting of words by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that tell how the power of song can overcome dark times. The composer brings this powerful text...

Originally published in Bach for Violin, this is a lovely arrangement of a contrasting pair of dances. The first is lively and in a major key, and the second more sombre in the tonic minor.

Arranged here for solo violin, this pair of short menuets begins cheerfully with arched phrases before moving on to a more sombre dance in the tonic minor. Bach's music for solo string instruments is...

This is the middle section of a substantial organ piece, and takes the form of a highly expressive melody over a realized accompaniment. The violin line is filled with chromatic inflections, wide inte...

In this arrangement by Kathy and David Blackwell, the original Aria melody is played by the violin in sections A and C, while sections B and D form a kind of decorated repeat, with the melody swapped...

This celebrated Gigue concludes the third partita, a genre built on a sequence of dance movements like Bach's the suites. With busy semiquaver runs at a lively tempo, this piece is perfect for practis...

This Sonata is the opening movement of a cantata, rearranged here for solo violin. The dotted rhythms recall the style of a French overture, a form often associated with pageantry and procession, and...

The well-known movement from Bach's Advent cantata was first performed in Leipzig in 1731, and rearranged here for solo violin by Kathy and David Blackwell. The first line translates literally as 'Awa...

This charming folk melody from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is full of lilting and dotted rhythms, arranged and carefully tailored for the needs of the beginner violinist . Originally published in So...

With lively semiquavers and well-crafted melodies, this set of two passepieds by Bach is arranged here for violin by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are award-winning authors of OUP's educational strin...

With lively quavers and stately rhythms, this Gavotte by Bach is arranged here for violin by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are award-winning authors of OUP's educational string series. Originally pub...

With its swung quavers and groovy feel, this original piece by award-winning authors Kathy and David Blackwell pays homage to the great French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Originally published i...

Originally published in Solo Time for Violin Book 1, this adaptation of Bohm's 'Little Hungarian Rhapsody' full of energy and contrasts in mood, key, and tempo. A fun piece of repertoire ideal for the...

Featuring quaver runs and a change in metre, this is an energetic traditional tune arranged by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are the award-winning authors of OUP's educational string series. Original...