Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano by Claude Debussy, edited by Ernst-Günter Heinemann, is a definitive Urtext edition featuring optional marked and unmarked violin parts.
Key features
• Scholarly Urtext presentation
• Classical clarity with Impressionist vitality
• Optional editorial guidance by Kurt Guntner
• Major 20th-century violin sonata
Elegance born from struggle defines Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano by Claude Debussy, presented here in an authoritative Urtext edition edited by Ernst-Günter Heinemann. Published by G. Henle Verlag, this edition offers both marked and unmarked violin parts, with thoughtfully considered fingering and bowing by Kurt Guntner, allowing performers the choice between guided interpretation and independent exploration.
Originally conceived as part of an ambitious cycle of six sonatas, Debussy was only able to complete three due to severe illness. While the Cello Sonata and the Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp emerged swiftly in 1915, the Violin Sonata presented profound compositional challenges—especially in shaping the final movement. Despite these difficulties, the finished work radiates clarity, vitality, and refined structural balance. Its concise three-movement design blends classical poise with Impressionist color, revealing a luminous transparency and rhythmic vitality that belie the work’s arduous creation.
This Urtext edition ensures textual fidelity while supporting historically informed interpretation, making it an essential resource for performers seeking both authenticity and expressive insight.
Key features:
Adaptable Duets contains 29 newly-composed or arranged duets that can be flexibly used with any combination of string instruments, making them an instant favorite for the modern Orchestra room.
Improve your cello bowing technique! This book teaches string-crossing technique on the cello with open-string studies that allow you to focus on the right hand.
Through the use of staccato bowing to encourage precisely-timed string crossing, these cello studies can help you develop bow control, smooth and even string crossing, and a more beautiful tone.
This book could be followed by String Crossing for the Cello, Book Two, which uses double stops to work on balance between two strings as a fundamental principle behind string crossing.
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A collection of 10 pieces, ranging between Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Dvorak, Franck, Mozart, Previn, Tchaikovsky and John Williams.
This stunning 3-movement work has it all! The opening movement, Flights of Fancy, symbolizes the element of air and features soaring phrases. The second movement, Terra, resembles an Appalachian lullaby and represents the element of Earth. The final movement, Fire and Ice, is a tour de force that captures the elements of fire and water meeting to create steam and the resulting kinetic energy. Glorious music!
