HOME      ABOUT US      COMPOSERS      RECORDINGS      DEALERS      CONTACT US      CUSTOMER SERVICE   Brass Jazz Music by Young People Piano & Organ Strings Woodwinds Pedagogical Materials Holiday Music NFMC List Seymour Bernstein                                String CHAMBER TRIOS Title Description Features Death, Taxes, and Tristan Jon Grier Cat.#50300 $6.00 For Violin, Cello and Piano. This is a tongue-in-cheek paraphrase of Richard Wagner's famous and influential Prelude to the 1859 opera Tristan and Isolde, the musical consequences of which are as unavoidable as death and taxes. The motivic materials, as well as a little of the harmony, are derived (stolen, that is) from Wagner's Prelude; most of the harmony is jazz. • Intermediate • Jazz harmonies • Duration 5 minutes. Trio in D Minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello C. Michael Ehrhardt Cat.#50299 $25.00 For Violin, Cello and Piano. A very beautiful romantic style work for intermediate players with wonderful interplay between the parts. There are four movements: Allegro moderato, Andante, Moderato, Vivace. Core literature for all teachers. • Intermediate • Duration 15 minutes. Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello John Kramer Cat.#50249 $25.00 For Violin, Cello and Piano. This is a wonderful original and fresh composition for piano trio. The first movement has a beautiful opening with long- held clusters in the piano part and long phrases for the strings. It switches to a lively syncopated part with punctuated chords in fourths and numerous seventh chords in arpeggios in the piano part. The second movement's suggested style is witty and has excellent rhythms traded between players. The third movement is labeled sad and beautiful. The long sustained lines of the strings over large moving chords in the piano make a great effect. The time signatures change throughout. The fourth movement, jerky, is a rhythmic tour de force right through to the end. We highly recommend this work, especially for college recitals. • Advanced • Duration 21 minutes • Editor's choice.