Wolfgang Birtel

The music scene took notice of Erik Satie (1866-1925) all of a sudden: The world premiere of his ballet 'Parade' on 18 May 1917 [siehe dt. Text!] caused quite a scandal. The production which involved...

Best of Violin Classics' contains popular performance pieces from four centuries for violin and piano. The easy to intermediate original works are ideal repertoire for music lessons and private music-...

For a New Year's concert with a small ensemble: lively polkas, hearty marches and fast waltzes are included in this volume. Wolfgang Birtel has written more than 20 wonderful and rousing arrangements...

Today, Edward Elgar is mainly known as composer, but apart from this work he also gave violin lessons. This edition contains six short studies by Edward Elgar, all ascending in difficulty and didactic...

The Violinissimo series attempts to make the rich repertoire of five centuries of violin music accessible for lessons, concerts and private music-making. The anthology Serenade contains a selection of...

Composed in 1886, the tremolo study 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' is without doubt Tarrega's best-known piece. It evokes memories of the Moorish citadel located on a hill in the Spanish Granada.Thanks to...

The concertos by Oskar Rieding (1840-1918) are among the 'classics' of the teaching literature. In particular, the Concerto in B minor is one of the most frequently played student concertos for violin...

'Alt Wiener Tanzweisen' [Old Viennesse dance tunes] are pretty miniatures, vibrant and catchy (the second one with a slightly elegiac colouring), but all have melodic charm and musical elegance. And w...

Gabriel Fauré was one of the most important French composers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century: he won the hearts of the public especially with songs and piano music. In the 187...