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It's a Violin Thing with Ailbhe McDonagh
16th Dec 2025
Irish cellist Ailbhe McDonagh is an internationally recognised musician, composer, and recording artist. We recently spoke with Ailbhe about her latest publication, It's a Violin Thing.
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Adam Kornas on 'Open String Tunes'
25th Nov 2024
Adam Kornas talks about his recent book for beginner violinists, featuring thirty progressive pieces using just open strings, with incredible backing tracks in popular styles to motivate students to sound their best.
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Fiddle Time Duets
23rd Mar 2023
Fiddle Time Duets is an exciting and attractive collection for violinists of all ages by the award-winning educational composers Kathy and David Blackwell. The duets are suitable for established beginners through to intermediate violinists. Find out more.
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Piccolo Paganini, Volume 2
21st Feb 2023
Following the success of the first volume, Piccolo Paganini, Vol. 2 contains thirty original intermediate-level pieces for violin and piano. These rarely performed concert pieces provide appealing, accessible, and musically rewarding repertoire pieces. Find out more.
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Nazrin Rashidova on Émile Sauret
21st Dec 2022
In collaboration with Edition Peters, Azerbaijani-British violin virtuoso Nazrin Rashidova has recently published a new edition of Émile Sauret's 24 Études Caprices, Op. 64. We spoke to Nazrin about her interest in the composer and her experience studying and performing the etudes.
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Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas
22nd Sep 2020
Beethoven's ten sonatas for piano and violin, along with those by Mozart, constitute the heart of this classical music genre. Not only does Clive Brown's scholarly critical edition offer a meticulously edited text, but for the first time it presents a list of sources and a Critical Report. Find out more about Barenreiter's Beethoven publications here.
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Mary Cohen: Technique in Practice
12th Jun 2020
Technique in Practice is an innovative approach to technique for advanced violinists by Mary Cohen, developed from her unique 'weightless balance' methodology. Learn more about this publication here.
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Highlighting Unaccompanied Strings
21st Apr 2020
Welcome to the fourth instalment of our series of articles highlighting unaccompanied instrumental repertoire, exploring some of the most popular and well-known solo pieces. In this article we look at unaccompanied string publications.
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Boosey & Hawkes: Easy String Music Series
28th Jan 2020
Boosey & Hawkes are a global classical music publisher, with an extensive catalogue of printed music for both professional and student musicians. Some of their most popular series have recently undergone an update, the latest being the Early String Music Series. Find out more about the series here.
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Simon Fischer: Transcriptions for Violin and Piano
8th Oct 2019
Violinist Simon Fischer is known throughout the world for his acclaimed violin methods published by Edition Peters. Now available to buy in one volume are his brilliant and idiomatic transcriptions for violin and piano of famous works from the classical repertoire. Find out more here.
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Violin Publications by Hilary Hahn and David Garrett
9th Jul 2019
Distinguished violinists Hilary Hahn and David Garrett have both released an album of violin and piano sheet music. Find out more about the violinists and their publications here.
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Fiddle Time 20th Anniversary
18th Oct 2018
This year Oxford University Press celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Fiddle Time series. Fiddle Time is a great series for all beginner violinists, packed with lively original tunes, well-known pieces and easy duets.
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A new source found for Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
3rd May 2018
Bärenreiter's new edition of Mendelssohn's concerto takes into account a recently-discovered source for the solo violin part.
