DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG, WINTER 2006
Prices include scores. Demo CD on request, $10.  Farwell works complete on CD, each $10. Van den Burg's recorded cello solos, including his first four Etudes 1-4, $10.

PERIOD MUSIC

• J.S. Bach, The Six Solos for Unaccompanied Violin. Two-volume set, $40. Performance Edition with commentary and Study Edition with suggestions for execution, $25 each. A "multi-dimensional" representation showing secondary voices, rhythmic alteration, and ornamental figures in small notes. Corrections and alternatives to previous editions.
• Robert Schumann, Dances and Other Numbers from Bach's Violin Solos. Ten movements, including the Ciaccona, adapted for string quartet or string orchestra from Schumann's piano accompaniment. Useful for teaching, for student concerts, and for professional gigs.  Includes adaptation of the bass parts for cellos.  $35
• "Vitali's Chaconne". This famous violin solo is edited directly from the manuscript, with a literal transcription of the score, a corrected score with realized continuo, a bass part, and a violin part with no interpretive or execution markings.  $20
• John Jenkins, Five Suites in Four Parts, for two trebles and two basses. Transcribed from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, these suites are classic examples of the transition from the Golden Age of the English consort to the modern Italian style by one of the most celebrated composers for the viol.  $30
• G.M. Bononcini, Twelve Church Sonatas, for two violins and bass (no keyboard figures). A transition collection of 1672 which brought the early Baroque forward to the modern sonatas of Corelli and Bach.  $30
• Luigi Boccherini, "Trio Concertante" String Quintet with Two Cellos, Op. 18 No. 2, in D major, G.284.    $15

• Pierre Baillot, Three String Quartets, Op. 34 (1823), with 80p score. First modern edition of these substantial, revealing, and entertaining works by this founder of the French Violin School (see full description in Cobbett Association Journal).    $50

MODERN CHAMBER MUSIC
Arthur Farwell (1872-1952)
Four masterpieces from the microfilm collection of this significant post-Romantic American composer's works at the Eastman School of Music:

• Quintet for Strings and Piano (1937). The first publication of this major work by an important figure in American music. A worthy companion to the quintets of Franck, Dvorak, and Roy Harris (35'). $50
• String Quartet, "The Hako" (1922).   A prize-winning evocation of a Pawnee Nation ceremony, performed 1923 at the Coolidge Festival in Ojai, California.  In one movement (17').  $30
• Piano Trio, Owasco Memories (1901). Five brief, light pieces which evoke the turn-of-the-century mood of the Fingers Lakes region in upstate New York (10'). $20
• Solo Sonata for Violin in G Minor (1934). A very difficult, intense four-movement virtuosic work: Wieniawski meets Ysaye (15'). $25

Ravel, String Quartet in F Major (1903). A corrected, newly-engraved printing based on original sources, with bar numbers, lots of cues, and manageable page turns.    $50
"Bravo! What a beautiful edition, and so meticulously worked out! An outstanding achievement." - Arbie Orenstein

• Centenary Edition. No execution or interpretive markings added.
• Daniel Guilet Study Edition, by Eugene Purdue. Based on the Centenary Edition, with fingerings, bowings, and interpretive suggestions in the French tradition, from Guilet's direct collaboration with the composer.

Faure, String Quartet Op. 121 (1924). A new edition preserving and extrapolating the composer's uncompleted markings, to reveal the expressive contrasts and North African influence not previously recognized in this work.    $30

Carl Nielsen, Viola Quintet (1888). Corrected and reset from the centennial facsimile.    $30

TEACHING AND STUDY

Ignace Pleyel, Fast Movements from Duos, Opus 8. Parts or score for two violins or two violas.    $10

 

Solo Cello: William (Willem) Van den Burg, 67 Etudes on the Beethoven Quartets (1980). Wm. Van den Burg (1901-1992), principal cellist for Stokowski and for Monteux, from 1927 to 1950, composed these Etudes, one for each movement of the quartets, as a monument to his modern approach to the cello, drawing on all the quartet voices. The great musicians of his day who were colleagues and personal friends, such as Menuhin, Pleeth, Frank Miller, and Orlando Cole, lavished praise for his manuscript but it found no practical use until this posthumously engraved edition.    $60

"These Etudes will not only assist cellists in mastering the technically difficult passages in the quartets, but they will put the cellists into Beethoven's stylistic frame." - Yo Yo Ma

 

Solo Viola: The 67 Cello Etudes transcribed and edited. Dedicated to Van den Burg's brother Herbert, former principal violist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.    $75

QUARTETS WITH TANGO FLAVOR

• Larry London, California String Quartet (1974)  (13'). A gratifying 3-movement work by a former student of Terry Riley and Lou Harrison combining the worlds of country music, Gershwin, Bartok, and India. Accessible and attractive for advanced students.   $20
Also available on rental for string orchestra.
• Stravinsky, Concertino (1920). A new engraving in a much clearer and more accessible edition to attract the present-day string player interested in a short and humorous spice to an overly-conventional evening. With performance suggestions to show its derivation from the Argentine-Paris tango craze of the modernist era.    $15
• Eduardo Rovira (Buenos Aires 1925-1980), Tango String Quartet (Argentina, ca. 1950). An evocative and original 3-movement concert piece by this prolific composer and tanguero.    $30

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Parts include score. Printed on durable natural-hue paper. Add $5 postage, $10 outside of USA

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