Jazzin’ the Classics
Well-loved classical themes made easy for Violin with jazzed-up piano accompaniments or backing tracks
C873 Cover
Violin & Piano
Various arr. John Widger
Catalogue number: C873
ISMN: 979-0-57081-873-0
Former catalogue number: SP543 SP544
Previous Publisher(s): Spartan Press
Price: £12.50
Availability: Print and Download
Elementary

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Widger John
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More educational titles
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More music for violin
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Well-loved classics for easy violin with jazzed-up piano accompaniments. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony theme, Toreador Song from Carmen and many other imaginatively arranged famous tunes with clever, easy piano accompaniments (or backing tracks).

This new edition is a bumper compendium of Books 1 and 2 as previously published by Spartan Press.

This revised edition also offers free backing tracks to replace the piano if desired, downloadable here (see below).

Contents

1 “Beethoven’s Fifth” – Ludwig van Beethoven
2 Trumpet Voluntary – Jeremiah Clark
3 Waves of the Danube – Ion Ivanovici
4 Capriccio Italien – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5 Adagio – Tomaso Albinoni
6 Rondeau from Abdelazer Suite – Henry Purcell
7 Toreador Song – Georges Bizet
8 “Morning Mood” from Peer Gynt – Edvard Greig
9 Polovtsian Dance – Alexander Borodin
10 Symphony No. 40 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11 Humoresque – Antonín Dvořák
12 Prelude – Frédéric Chopin
13 William Tell Rock – Gioachino Rossini
14 Hungarian Dance – Johannes Brahms
15 Air from Water Music – George Frideric Handel

Optional free backing tracks are available to download here:

Listen to…

A short excerpt from
No. 2: Trumpet Voluntary

Listen to…

A short excerpt from
No. 15 Air from Water Music