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SCHOTTEdition SchottSarasate, Pablo deIntroduction &Tarantellafor violin and piano, Op. 43Edited by Wolfgang Birtel andFriedemann EichhornIn 1899 Sarasate composed oneof his most popular, non-Spanishpieces, ‘Introduction & Tarantella’Op. 43, which was published inthe following year, even in a versionwith orchestra accompaniment.The tarantella, a folk dancein 6/8 metre, comes from southernItaly and has developed fromdance tunes played in Apulia forpeople suffering from tarantism.According to popular belief, thebite of a tarantula caused tarantismwhich was supposed to becured by wild dancing. Go and tryif Sarasate’s salon piece reallyhas medicinal properties!Grade: advancedISMN 979-0-001-18958-3VLB 169 £ 7.99 / € 8,99NovemberBOTE & BOCKMamlok, UrsulaAphorisms I5 Piecesfor violin (2009)‘Aphorisms I’ was composed in2009 and premiered by its dedicatee,Kolya Lessing, in Lucerne inFebruary 2010. The five shortmovements develop, for the soloviolin, into a small instrumentalcosmos of character pieces whichhave evolved from contrapuntalthinking. The sound is determinednot by atonal acrobatics, but byplastic phrases based on the possibilitiesof the instrument.Grade: advancedISMN 979-0-2025-3247-8BB 3247 £ 5.99 / € 6,99availableBELAIEFFKissine, VictorCapricefor violin and piano (2011)Victor Kissine’s ‘Caprice’ was performedat the Brussels concerthall of Flagey in May 2012 by 24semifinalists at the Belgian QueenElisabeth Music Competition.‘Although commissioned by andcomposed for a competition ascompulsory piece, I was inspiredby very personal emotions in connectionwith two friends, PhilippeHirschhorn and Gidon Kremer.The title, obviously, refers to theclassical tradition of this formwhich seems to me quite ‘capricious’and alternates between differentparadoxical dimensions inthe course of the piece.’ (VictorKissine)Grade: difficult to very difficultISMN 979-0-2030-0517-9BEL 588 £ 16.99 / € 19,99available19Strings