Classical Highlights for Viola

Description

'Classical Highlights' presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for viola and piano. The comprehensive selection of works enables the musician to access classical masterpieces – from Handel and Bach through to Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner to Fauré, Elgar, Debussy and Satie. There will be something for any viola player who is looking for a popular classical work for teaching or performing purposes.

Pieces

• Air from Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring from Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Cantata for the Feast of Visitation B.V.M.), BWV 147
• Largo from Handel: Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40
• Schubert: Ave Maria ("Ellens Gesang III"), D 839, Op. 52, No. 6
• Wedding March from Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Incidental Music), MWV M 13, Op. 61
• Mendelssohn: Songs without Words (Consolation), MWV U 104, Op. 30, No. 3
• No. 7, Reveries from R. Schumann: Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
• Bridal Chorus from Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75
• Rubinstein: Melodie in F Major, Op. 3, No. 1
• Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
• Fibich: Poem in D♭ Major, Op. 39a
• Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
• Elgar: No. 1 from Pomp & Circumstance Marches, Op. 39
• MacDowell: To a Wild Rose, Op. 51, No. 1
• Debussy: Golliwogg's Cakewalk
• No. 1 from Satie: Gymnopédies (1888)
• Kreisler: Liebesfreud from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (3 Old Viennese Dance Tunes) (1905)
• Kreisler: Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (3 Old Viennese Dance Tunes) (1905)
• Noack: Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade, Op. 5
• No. 2 from Gershwin: 3 Preludes (1926)
• Pütz: Blue Waltz (1997)