SKU: A0.1204630

Invention No.12 in A Major. Arrangement for Violin and Violoncello. With Full Score and Individual Parts. Enjoy it!

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

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SKU: A0.1488233

A near contemporary and rival of Haydn, Leopold Hofmann was held in the highest regard in his native Vienna where he served as Kapellmeister at St Stephen's Cathedral, a position to which Mozart might have succeeded had he lived. Hofmann was a prolific composer of instrumental music and he wrote a good deal of chamber music although much of it has been lost.

Hofmann also composed a substantial body of chamber music for strings and among the most interesting of these works are the Six Sonatas for Violin & Basso. The sonatas are as a whole more technically difficult than any of the composer's other chamber works with violin. In some respects, particularly in their extensive use of double-stopping and two-part textures in the violin part, they are more technically demanding than his violin concertos.

There is no attempt, however, to involve the basso in the presentation of thematic material and in this respect the sonatas are quite unlike Hofmann's one extant Duo for Violin and Violoncello (Badley II.D2) in which the two parts are treated equally. In view of their technical difficulty and limited dissemination it is difficult to understand Hofmann's motivation for composing the sonatas. Their exploration of multiple-voicing, particularly in first and second movements, and the use of a Minuet with variations for five of the finales – all of which follow a similar pattern of technical exploitation – suggests that the sonatas may have been composed by Hofmann in the first instance as teaching pieces.

SKU: A0.1162954

This triumphant Easter hymn has been newly-arranged as an unaccompanied, instrumental duet.  Appropriate as an exalted prelude or postlude, worship, concert, or recital setting.  Score and Set of Parts included.  Performance Time:  2:10.

SKU: A0.590359

15 Favourite Hymns for Thanksgiving and Harvest for Violin and Cello Duet is a beautiful collection of well-known traditional Thanksgiving and Harvest hymns, carefully chosen to help you celebrate this special time of year. Each hymn is arranged as a duet for one Violin and one Cello.

15 Favourite Hymns for Thanksgiving and Harvest are simply arranged in easy keys and are fun to play for musicians with a year or two’s experience and above. Teachers and students alike will find 15 Favourite Hymns for Thanksgiving and Harvest useful for building ensemble, reading and rhythmic skills. Click the link above to hear a sample from the Violin version of this collection on YouTube.

The hymns are in alphabetical order and are as follows…

·     All Things Bright and Beautiful, (The 29thMay)

·     Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, (Nettleton)

·     Come, Ye Thankful People Come, (St George’s, Windsor)

·     Count Your Blessings, (Blessings)

·     For All the Blessings of the Year, (Oldbridge)

·     For the Beauty of the Earth, (Dix)

·     Now Thank We All Our God, (Nun Danket)

·     O Store Gud, (Trad. Swedish)

·     Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow, (Old Hundredth)

·     Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven, (Laude Anima)

·     Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, (Lobe den Herren)

.    Rejoice Today with One Accord, (Ein Feste Burg)

·     We Gather Together, (Kremser)

·     We Plough the Fields and Scatter, (Wir Pflügen)

·     When Morning Gilds the Skies, (Laudes Domini)

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