World-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine has compiled a collection of 19 pieces, for unaccompanied violin and violin and piano, ranging from her original compositions and cadenzas to virtuoso arrangements featured in many of her popular recordings. Highlights include Variations on The Birthday Song, The Star-Spangled Banner, Caprice on Dixie, Albeniz s Asturias, Berlioz s Symphonie Fantastique, and cadenzas for concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Paganini. Pine has also authored a detailed introduction commenting on each work. Professionals and students alike will delight in this unique and personal collection.
"Carl Fischer Music has announced that violinist Rachel Barton Pine will be the first living composer and woman to be published as part of its Masters Collection with release of The Rachel Barton Pine Collection, a volume of violin works of original compositions, arrangements, cadenzas and editions penned or arranged by Pine.
The collection encompasses pieces written for unaccompanied solo violin and arrangements for violin duet, violin and cello duet, and violin with piano with highlights, including an original cadenza for Paganini's "Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor" and her arrangements of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" and "Albeniz's Asturias".
Pine has appeared as a soloist with many prestigious ensembles and has received worldwide acclaim for her historically informed interpretations, technical mastery, lustrous tone and perceptive performances. Following in the footsteps of many of her great violinists, including Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz, who have been published by Carl Fischer Music, the compilation gathers together Pine's cadenzas of standard concerti and her composed unaccompanied encore pieces that have engaged audiences around the world, as well as other concert works that she has edited for violin and piano." --UpBeat Daily Magazine, January 2010
"Violinist Rachel Barton Pine will be the first living composer and woman to be published as part of Carl Fischer Music's Masters Collection with the release of The Rachel Barton Pine Collection, a volume of violin works of original compositions, arrangements, cadenzas, and editions penned or arranged by Pine. The collection encompasses pieces written for unaccompanied solo violin and arrangements for violin duet, violin and cello duet, and violin with piano." --Music Merchandise Review, February 2010
"Carl Fischer Music proudly unveils a new edition of the quintessential Wohlfahrt violin method, expertly updated and edited by violinist Rachel Barton Pine. The new Wohlfart Foundation Studies for the Violin, Book I contains modernized fingerings, bowings and dynamics by Pine, all newly engraved for this edition. At the same time it remains faithful to the original, maintaining the same pedagogical sequence as Aiqouni's classic edition. This edition also includes a DVD of Rachel Barton Pine playing all 60 etudes with two camera views so students can choose to see either the bow or the left hand technique.
"These little pieces are like old friends and I have fond memories of both studying and teaching them. In many ways my early etude lessons provided the underpinnings of my approach to music and musical interpretation; the skills I learned then have translated directly to my study and preparation of concert repertoire. Whether I'm preparing solo Bach, sonatas, concertos, or chamber music, I follow the same steps I learned when practicing Wohlfahrt - evaluating the work's architectural structure, listening to all of its harmonies, and building a meaningful interpretation informed by these findings. It was a delight to edit this new addition" says Pine." --American String Teacher, November 2011
