The Masters of the Violin. Composed by Mathieu Crickboom. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Op. Vol. II. Schott Music - Digital #Q42355. Published by Schott Music - Digital

Violin Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1018896

Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. 4 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6056127. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018896).

Programme Notes:

 Icarus Also Flew takes its title from the first line of the poem Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert. He is referring to the classical myth of Daedalus and Icarus, an inventive father and son who bravely escape from their imprisonment in a tower by collecting the disposed feathers of seabirds, then fashion wings out of them and fly away. While the story is often treated as a morality tale--listen to your elders, don’t get cocky like the young man, Icarus, who, in such an understandable state of elation, ascended too close to the sun thus causing the wings to melt and his tumbling to his Mediterranean death--what Jack Gilbert reminds us is how regardless of one’s failure, the sheer transcendental experience of mortal flight remains glorious and unforgettable. Icarus’s fall was not into a legacy of disdain and oblivion, but in truth, he had come to the end of his triumph.

 This piece was the first of a series I composed during the Covid-19 quarantine conditions of 2020, to serve as potential contemporary preludes for each of Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies--his two hundred and fiftieth anniversary was this year!--though they can all stand on their own on any program. The connection, in this case, is with his celebrated fifth symphony in C minor--the Fate symphony, as it is commonly known. I’ll let the listener find their own connections.

About the Composer:

Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

Violin Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.869665

Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. 12 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5888351. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869665).

There is a lot of time to compose when you are stuck at home during the Pandemic of 2020. This is the fifth work I completed under lockdown.:

1. Trio 803 was completed on April 7, 2020
2. Kindertodtotenlieder was completed on May 13, 2020
3. Préludes … Hommage à C.D. was completed on June 5, 2020
4. Chansons de Maeterlinck was completed on June 20, 2020

I have always been a huge fan of the Mendelssohn Octet for double string quartet. In my search of octets on YouTube I noticed that there were a number of octets that used a double bass instead of a second cello. I thought that configuration would suit what I had in mind for my octet.

Octet for Strings is in five movements.

I. Adagio

II. Allegro

III. Adagio

IV. Allegro TRIO

V. Andantino

Total duration, ca. 22 minutes.

Enjoy!!!

Violin Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.869285

Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. 148 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #33805. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869285).

Instrumentation: violin solo & orchestra, 2222-4231-timp-hp-strings Program note. I first heard Irina Muresanu, maybe five years ago, with the Boston Trio in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. I was impressed from the very first note she played on her violin. Subsequently I heard her in a chamber music duo recital with pianist Ya-fei Chuang at the Harvard-Epworth Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I remember saying to myself, Wow, she has a big, warm sound! One day I would love to write a violin concerto for her! Last year I heard her play the Brahms and the Tchaikovsky violin concerti on separate occasions with the Lexington Symphony and the Boston Classical Orchestra. It was that wow factor again … When I proposed to write a violin concerto for Max Hobart and the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, he asked me who I would like to feature as the soloist. I said Irina Muresanu. Max said it was a fabulous choice since he has been thinking of engaging Irina to play with the Civic for some time. Over the past summer I indulged myself in a buying spree of scores and CD recordings of violin concerti. Many composers’ works stood out: concerti by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Elgar, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Saint-Saëns, Dvorak, Paganini, Glazunov, Dohnanyi, Nielsen, Spohr, etc. And of course, I did not ignore the gems by Bach and Mozart! The listening to and research of all these concerti masterpieces were quite overwhelming, to say the least. So, by the time I was ready to begin work on my Concerto, I had to put all those scores and CDs aside and begin to find the music in my head. I must confess that it took a while. But eventually I found the seed that brought everything together. And within six weeks, between late September and early November, I completed the short score of the concerto. The orchestration took approximately ten days and the complete work was done on November 21st, 2009. My Violin Concerto, opus 129, is in two parts. Each part consists of a slow section that is followed by a fast one. Part I: Largo, Moderato, Allegro ma non troppo. Part II: Largo, Adagio, Prestissimo. Enjoy!!

Audio link: https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/violin-concerto-2009.

Violin Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.869662

Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. 12 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5888349. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869662).

There is a lot of time to compose when you are stuck at home during the Pandemic of 2020. This is the fifth work I completed under lockdown.:

1. Trio 803 was completed on April 7, 2020
2. Kindertodtotenlieder was completed on May 13, 2020
3. Préludes … Hommage à C.D. was completed on June 5, 2020
4. Chansons de Maeterlinck was completed on June 20, 2020

I have always been a huge fan of the Mendelssohn Octet for double string quartet. In my search of octets on YouTube I noticed that there were a number of octets that used a double bass instead of a second cello. I thought that configuration would suit what I had in mind for my octet.

Octet for Strings is in five movements.

I. Adagio

II. Allegro

III. Adagio

IV. Allegro TRIO

V. Andantino

Total duration, ca. 22 minutes.

Enjoy!!!

Violin Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.869661

Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. 12 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5888357. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869661).

There is a lot of time to compose when you are stuck at home during the Pandemic of 2020. This is the fifth work I completed under lockdown.:

1. Trio 803 was completed on April 7, 2020
2. Kindertodtotenlieder was completed on May 13, 2020
3. Préludes … Hommage à C.D. was completed on June 5, 2020
4. Chansons de Maeterlinck was completed on June 20, 2020

I have always been a huge fan of the Mendelssohn Octet for double string quartet. In my search of octets on YouTube I noticed that there were a number of octets that used a double bass instead of a second cello. I thought that configuration would suit what I had in mind for my octet.

Octet for Strings is in five movements.

I. Adagio

II. Allegro

III. Adagio

IV. Allegro TRIO

V. Andantino

Total duration, ca. 22 minutes.

Enjoy!!!

Violin Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.869664

Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. 12 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5888355. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869664).

There is a lot of time to compose when you are stuck at home during the Pandemic of 2020. This is the fifth work I completed under lockdown.:

1. Trio 803 was completed on April 7, 2020
2. Kindertodtotenlieder was completed on May 13, 2020
3. Préludes … Hommage à C.D. was completed on June 5, 2020
4. Chansons de Maeterlinck was completed on June 20, 2020

I have always been a huge fan of the Mendelssohn Octet for double string quartet. In my search of octets on YouTube I noticed that there were a number of octets that used a double bass instead of a second cello. I thought that configuration would suit what I had in mind for my octet.

Octet for Strings is in five movements.

I. Adagio

II. Allegro

III. Adagio

IV. Allegro TRIO

V. Andantino

Total duration, ca. 22 minutes.

Enjoy!!!