String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1335335 Composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Opera,Romantic Period. 8 pages. Cypress Publishing #921169. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1335335). L'Elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is the most popular comedy by the prolific bel canto composer Donizetti. This is an arrangement of its best known melody, a beloved aria in the repertory of all great Italian tenors.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1332108 Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Chamber,Romantic Period. 9 pages. Cypress Publishing #918888. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1332108). The most famous of Schubert's marches, originally written for piano four hands. A jolly and tuneful piece, and fun to play. Also available arranged for string trio.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333721 Composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Romantic Period. 14 pages. Cypress Publishing #920017. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333721). Chopin's piano idiom is notoriously difficult to translate to any other musical medium. The opening filigree and gently rocking second theme of this splendid Nocturne seem particularly suited to string sound. Its chromaticism can present a sight reading challenge, but well rewards some study.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333730 Composed by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 20th Century,Classical. 16 pages. Cypress Publishing #920027. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333730). The clean lines and abrupt, witty harmonic shifts of Prokofiev's neoclassic masterpiece come off particularly well played by a quartet. This arrangement of the two middle movements follows the original material as closely as possible.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1335326 Composed by Clara Wieck-Schumann. Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Romantic Period. 16 pages. Cypress Publishing #921159. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1335326). Clara Schumann cut short her composing career to perform and promote her husband's work, but her output is of high quality and is becoming appreciated on its own. This is a set of two arrangements of her piano pieces.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333623 Composed by Alexander Borodin (1833-1887). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Opera,Romantic Period. 8 pages. Cypress Publishing #919918. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333623). Borodin, a chemistry professor, composed relatively few works, but they were of high quality, notable for their luscious melody. The Polovetsian Dances from his unfinished opera Prince Igor are particularly fine, and the melody from this one, along with several from other works, was used in the 1953 musical Kismet.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1335170 Composed by Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Romantic Period. 31 pages. Cypress Publishing #921017. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1335170). Four settings of songs by perhaps the greatest melodist ever. The set includes the theme used by Anton Arensky for a set of brilliant variations for string orchestra, Tchaikovsky's famous Goethe setting None But the Lonely Heart, plus two other gems.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333225 Composed by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. Chamber,Opera,Romantic Period,Wedding. 7 pages. Cypress Publishing #919458. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333225). One of Puccini's most famous melodies, and a wedding favorite. The arrangement may be performed either by quartet alone or to accompany a singer in the original key.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1332103 Composed by Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. Chamber,Classical. 6 pages. Cypress Publishing #918882. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1332103). A lovely, gentle short piece by the blind pianist and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824), to whom Mozart's piano concerto K. 456 was dedicated. The piece is notable for its poignant shifts between major and minor. An alternate viola part is included for use as a string trio.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate jobs, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, as well as some standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, but unnecessary technical complexity is avoided. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333890 Composed by Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Chamber,Romantic Period. 6 pages. Cypress Publishing #920169. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333890). This soulful, contemplative piece, originally for piano three hands (the treble player having only a right hand melody) was quickly adapted for violin and piano, and played in that form at Schumann's funeral by Joseph Joachim and Johannes Brahms. This quartet version actually allows the harmonies to sustain better at slow tempo than in the piano original.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333885 Composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Opera,Romantic Period. 21 pages. Cypress Publishing #920164. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333885). The melodic gift that has made Bellini's operas beloved throughout the world is also evident in his songs. Here are three of his finest, with string quartet taking the place of the human voice.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333728 Composed by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. Classical,Opera. 5 pages. Cypress Publishing #920025. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333728). This gentle, well known melody is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Dance of the Blessed Spirits which is the number that follows it in the opera.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333710 Composed by Enrique Granados (1867-1916). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Romantic Period. 13 pages. Cypress Publishing #920008. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333710). The great Catalan pianist and composer Granados drew on material from all of Spain. His 12 Spanish Dances, Op. 5, derive from various regions, with this Playera representing Andalusia.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1335320 Composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Romantic Period. 15 pages. Cypress Publishing #921154. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1335320). This arrangement of Debussy's impressionist classic strives to reproduce as much of the original piano texture as possible, while scoring the filigree in a manner compatible with string sound and technique.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1333379 Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Arranged by Stephen Levintow. 19th Century,Religious,Romantic Period,Sacred,Wedding. 12 pages. Cypress Publishing #919607. Published by Cypress Publishing (A0.1333379). This unique transcription of Schubert's perennial favorite contains both a solo part and accompaniments for each instrument, with clear markings so that different instruments can play the melody as the verses are repeated.CYPRESS PUBLISHING is pleased to be the imprint for arrangements for string ensemble by Stephen Levintow. He is a free lance professional violist and violinist specializing in chamber music, who began making string quartet and trio arrangements for wedding, party and corporate events, to expand the repertory or to improve on existing versions. Selections include unusual pieces by both familiar and lesser-known composers, plus standard classical and popular favorites. The goal is to produce high-quality, musically satisfying arrangements faithful to the composer’s original material, yet sight-readable in most cases by working professionals or intermediate to advanced students. The full range of normal string technique is employed, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity. Melodic material is distributed throughout the four voices where appropriate, to maintain listener and performer interest. All parts and scores are set in Sibelius© software format, with careful attention to legibility and page turns.