Jan Utbult

Easy Concert Pieces Vol. 3

The Easy Concert Pieces series for Violin and Piano is intended for tuition purposes and are particularly suitable for performance at auditions and school concerts, for competitions, examinations - and for music making at home too, of course. A CD is included to help with learning these pieces. Volume 3 (intermediate) requires familiarity with the first four positions. Besides well-known works such as the famous Air by Bach, the Largo from Handel's opera Xerxes and a movement from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, there are rewarding concerto and sonata movements by Küchler and Fiocco, as well as less familiar Romantic compositions by Rieding and Trowell. Modern music is represented in two lovely pieces by Hermann Schroeder, also inspired by the theme of the seasons. Young violinists will enjoy the four pop pieces that round off the selection.