Barber: Violin Concerto

Includes accompaniments for:

1. Allegro

2. Andante

2. Andante (abridged)

3. Presto in moto perpetuo

3. Presto (practice)

These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

Samuel Barber wrote his violin concerto in 1939, shortly after writing his famous Adagio for Strings. The Andante movement has become a firm favourite with modern audiences, with a soaring violin melody, while the brilliant finale requires a soloist of outstanding virtuosity.

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4 crotchet click-beats at beginning to indicate pulse

Cadenza (bar 190): approximately 23 seconds of silence in the piano part for violin to play this short cadenza

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This version contains the full tutti introduction

Bars 30-32 (before rehearsal mark 3): minim click-beats indicate pulse where piano has held chord.

Cadenza (bar 100): approximately 28 seconds of silence in piano part to allow for violin to play this cadenza

This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.