10 Christmas Classics, for Violin and Viola

This volume contains 10 Christmas classics from the classical repertoire arranged for violin and viola. The collection spans nearly 200 years of festive music, beginning with "Schlittenfahrt" from Leopold Mozart's "Divertimento in F" (1756), and concluding with "Troika" from Prokofiev's? "Lieutenant? Kijé Suite" (1933-1934).
The pieces chosen focus on outstanding moments from the Christmas classical repertoire. In the arrangements the violin and viola often take turns to play the melody or the accompaniment while the accompaniments themselves are, on the whole, transcribed directly from the original scores. Endings to the excerpts, all taken from the originals, have been added where appropriate. Bowing and fingering, however, are editorial, although much of the bowing is taken from the string parts in the original editions.

1. Schlittenfahrt - Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) - Divertimento in F (1756)
2. Excerpt from L'Adieu des Bergers - Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - L'Enfance du Christ (1854)
3. Tollite Hostias - Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) - Oratorio de Noel (1860)
4. Excerpt from In dulci jubilo; Die Hirten an der Krippe - Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Weihnachtsbaum (1873-1876) 5. Abends, will ich schlafen gehn - Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) - Hänsel und Gretel (1891-1892)
6. Excerpt from Waltz of the Flowers - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - The Nutcracker (1892) 7. Christmas Tree Waltz - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (1866-1920) - The Christmas Tree (1900)
8. The Procession of Ovsyen and Kolyada - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) - Christmas Eve Suite (1903) 9. Romanian Christmas Carols; Series 1: 8-10 - Béla Bartók (1881-1945) - Romanian Christmas Carols (1915)
10. Excerpt from Troika - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Lieutenant Kijé Suite (1933-1934)

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10 Christmas Classics
for Violin and Viola
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