VIOLIN SHEET MUSIC

    Welcome to Dantalian's Violin Sheet Music Page, containing information about our publications of Donald Martino's compositions for your instrument.  Donald Martino was raised in the Italian tradition of clarinet virtuosity so it is no wonder that he has contributed significantly to the solo literature of many instruments.  Here you will find his brilliant FANTASY VARIATIONS  for Violin Solo, championed in the years following its birth by the extraordinary Paul Zukofsky who first recorded it for CRI, and in recent times by the equally extraordinary Rolf Schulte: "governs fantasy with impeccable logic...evocative references to tonality...a big Romantic piece" -The Boston Globe; and, "an impressive contribution to the violin solo repertory" - Notes.  There is now a totally different  brand of violin solo music, no less virtuosic, but tempered equally by pensive, lyric, deeply soulful episodes which seem somehow to dominate one's perception of the work.   The ROMANZA (2002) is a more lyrical work than the FANTASY VARIATIONS.  It might make a good Christmas present to yourself!  There also is the early SONATA (No 1) with  piano, written in Martino's Senior year in college.  So strongly is it influenced by Bartok that Martino jokingly refers to it as "Bartok's third sonata."  Hear Schulte play it on Centaur records.
    And there is much chamber music, including:

STRING QUARTET IV: "the emotional content is high...a quintexciting piece...dazzling" - The Los Angeles Times; "an intricately plotted, ferociously intense instrumental drama.  The gestures are broad, uninhibited, full of expressive variety" - New York Magazine

TRIO for Clarinet, Violin and Piano: "its beauty of line and sonority is extraordinary.  A work of great sensitivity and delicacy" -The Nation; "elegantly worked out and purified into a kind of crystalline beauty.  The piece is remarkable for its way of linking up the instruments through careful control of color.  Almost too beautiful" - New York Herald Tribune

The Pulitzer Prize-winning NOTTURNO: "endlessly fascinating...beautiful beyond belief, and not like anything else. " - The Boston Globe

The new octet SERENATA CONCERTANTE.   For information about the concerto  -- "there are things in the concerto that are so beautiful they take your breath away" - Boston Globe -- please see the Orchestra Page.

 

All Sheet Music Editions of Donald Martino's Violin Music
  Previously Published by The E.C. Schirmer Music Co./Ione Press
Are Now Published by Dantalian, Inc.

For theVIOLIN CONCERTO, see the Orchestra Page.

* = Not printed in quantity; allow one month for delivery. § = Prepublication item, inquire as to availability; C = Commercial Recording (Number of C's indicates number of recordings).  P = Perusal Tape. M = Manuscript. ß = Repertory Selection "Director's Guide to Festival and Contest Music" (The Instumentalist). DSE = Dantalian; McG&M = McGinnis & Marx.

FREE ILLUSTRATED BROCHURES ON REQUEST: VOICE, CHORUS, WIND, STRING, PIANO, LARGE ENSEMBLE, BACH CHORALES, STRING-O-GRAPH

Our BROWSE-AT-HOME BROCHURES offer you more than just a few themes.  They are a veritable "Reader's Digest" of each work.  Please contact us via phone, mail, fax or email, or use the online order form to receive any of our useful brochures.  Click here for a sample of six  of the sixteen excerpts that illustrate one composition in our wind brochure.

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