Händel: Joy To The World

"Joy To The World" is one of my favourite Christmas carols. It's just so, well, joyful! 

Playing duets with friends or family members is a lovely way to celebrate the holidays. 

Maybe joyful and hopeful music is particularly important in a year in which many people around the world have faced great challenges. 

Let's hope the new year will bring better times for all!

Joy To The World is one of 20 carols in my Violin and Cello Christmas Duet Book.

The Christmas Duet Book is also available for violin and viola, viola duet, 

viola and cello, and cello duet.

Wishing everyone a joyful holiday, and a happy new year with lots of music!

Vivaldi: Theme from Autumn (duet)

 Duets are great for playing with friends or family!

This is one of the 21 pieces in my Violin and Cello Duet Book: the theme from the first movement of Vivaldi's "Autumn" - one of the violin concertos that make up his famous Four Seasons. These concertos are some of the most beloved classical pieces ever, with good reason! In this melody, Vivaldi captures the joy of Italian peasants celebrating a bountiful harvest. 

A real celebration of autumn 💛

Vivaldi: Theme from Spring for Viola and Cello Duet

Springs is here! And what better way to celebrate it than by playing the famous melody from Vivaldi's Spring?

 Actually, this tune is too nice to be available for just violinists... So here's a version for viola and cello!

You'll find this piece and 20 other duets in my Viola and Cello Duet Book - available for download at Sheet Music Plus.

For other string duets, click here. Have a nice spring!

Carol Of the Bells - Christmas carol for violin and cello duet

There is so much lovely Christmas music in the world! Like this Ukranian carol by Mykola Leontovych, known to us as Carol Of the Bells:

This arrangement for violin and cello can be found in The Christmas Duet Book.
This is a collection of 20 Christmas carols from around the world, and is available for many different string duets: Violin and cello, violin and viola, viola and cello, two violas, and two cellos. Download it now and start playing!

What Child Is This - Christmas carol for viola and cello

Time to start practicing that Christmas repertoire!

What Child Is This is a beautiful 16th century tune, also known as Greensleeves. This duet arrangement is from The Christmas Duet Book, a collection of 20 carols arranged for string duet. This version is for viola and cello, but the book is also available for violin and viola, violin and cello, two cellos or two violas.

Enjoy - and Merry Christmas to all!

Waltz from Sleeping Beauty - and more duets for viola and cello!

What is it that I always say?

- There are not enough duets for viola and cello in the world! -

Well, I have done my bit to better the situation, by finishing The Viola and Cello Duet Book!

This is a collection of 21 lovely pieces for viola and cello friends (or siblings) to play together. In fact, I originally made it as a birthday gift for my viola-playing brother :)

One of those pieces is the famous waltz from Tcaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty. This melody was made even more famous when Walt Disney used it in his retelling of the old fairy tale in 1959:

And then it hit the charts again in 2014, when Lana Del Rey's version Once Upon A Dream was heard in the movie Maleficent.

My version stays closer to Tcaikovsky's original:

 

Sooner or later I might get around to making Duet Books for other string instruments, too. Until then, some of the duets in this collection are already available for violin and viola, violin and cello, viola duet and cello duet. Download them here: Elin Korneliussen duets at Sheet Music Plus.

Enjoy!

Bizet: Habanera from Carmen for string duet

More music for viola and cello! 💕 This time it's one of the most famous songs from perhaps the most popular opera ever: Carmen, by Georges Bizet!

In the iconic Habanera, Carmen herself sings about Love; that wild bird which no one has ever succeded in taming...

This arrangement is not very difficult, but it's not suitable for beginners, so I have marked it "early intermediate". For those of you who are familiar with the Suzuki repertoire, this will be somewhere in the region of book two or three.

This duet, as well as versions for violin and viola, violin and cello, two violas, and two cellos, is available at Sheet Music Plus: Habanera from Carmen for string duets.

Enjoy!

P. S.
You'll find this duet and 20 more in my Viola and Cello Duet Book!

Wedding March from Lødingen for String Duet

Yay, more duet music for viola and cello! 😁

This wedding march is a lovely folk tune that has been played at weddings in Norway for generations. It originates in Lødingen in Nordland, but is well known all over the country. You can listen to a sound clip here!

Download this duet together with two other traditional Norwegian wedding tunes at Sheet Music Plus. Also available for violin and viola or violin and cello!

Copyrighted arrangement: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen for string duet

There are not enough duets for viola and cello in the world!

At least, that's what I think. But then I am a cellist with a violist brother 😁
Anyway, I am currently working to rectify this. Among other things, that involves making a duet arrangement of Leonard Cohen's beautiful song Hallelujah, and putting it up for sale on Sheet Music Plus. Check it out here!

All right, I admit it - I made versions for viola duet, cello duet and violin/viola duet as well. After all, not everyone has a cellist sister. You'll find them all on my Publisher Page at SMP.

Enjoy!

Screenshot from Sheet Music Plus