ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces 2016–2019, ABRSM Grade 8, Score & Part

Format: Score and Part
Instrumentation: Violin and Piano
Level: 8, Difficult

This album contains nine pieces from ABRSM's 2016-2019 Grade 8 Violin syllabus.

Key features:

• three pieces from each of Lists A, B and C
• appealing and varied repertoire
• carefully edited and clearly presented throughout
• helpful information about the pieces and the exam

Recordings:

• All of the pieces on the Grade 8 syllabus have been recorded by leading concert performers Pavlo Beznosiuk, Lucy Gould and Alexandra Wood.
• The duo recordings and playalong practice tracks are available on CD - as part of the Violin Exam Pieces with CD package - or as downloads from www.abrsm.org/audioshop.

Song List:

• Adagio: 1st movt from Sonata No. 1 in G minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1001 [Johann Sebastian Bach]
• Allegro moderato: 1st movt from Concerto in G, Hob VIIa/4 [Joseph Haydn]
• Preludio and Corrente: 1st and 2nd movts from Sonata in C minor, RV 6 [Antonio Vivaldi]
• Allegretto grazioso: 3rd movt from Sonata in A, Op. 100 [Johannes Brahms]
• Scherzo: No. 2 from Three Pieces, Op. 42 [Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky]
• Obertass: No. 1 from Two Mazurkas, Op. 19 [Henryk Wieniawski]
• Hoe-Down from Rodeo [Aaron Copland]
• Romance [Helen Grime]
• Full Fathom Five: No. 1 from On the Fiddle [Michael Nyman]