Pizzicato

[Pianoman]

duh - my bad...

[Stanfordian]

My daughter is a beginner violinist. So far, she has only been allowed to pluck, and we have enjoyed listening to a couple of pizzicato movements, namely the Playful Pizzicato from Britten's Simple Symphony, and the 3rd movement of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony.

Does anyone have any more suggestions, please?

Hiya Bamig, The composer Kalliwoda in his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 61 has a splendid Scherzo movement containing lots of pizzicato available on the Calliope label.

[Dave2002]

Typing "pizzicato" into Spotify discovers most of what we have already, plus:

Pizzicato section in Act 1, Rayonda, Glazunov Op 57
the central section - Grand Valse - pizzicato - reprise de la Valse of Raymonda, Glazunov Op 57.

44 duos for 2 violins - no 43, Bartok

The Limpid Stream, Act III - Shostakovich

and

Jazz Pizzicato - Leroy Anderson

plus some even more "popular" items - I quite like this one - http://open.spotify.com/track/23sqivCtaNZanjxooOwmI1

[Petrushka]

Plink, Plank, Plunk! by Leroy Anderson

[Dave2002]

Plink, Plank, Plunk! by Leroy Anderson

Of course! Well done!

[EdgeleyRob]

There's a great pizzicato section in Malcolm Arnold's 2nd violin sonata.

[ahinton]

I'm bowing out on this one...

Keep your hair on!...

[ahinton]

Johann Strauss - Pizzicato Polka

Also the same composer's polka from Furstin Ninetta, Op. 449.

Come to think of it, I don't ever recall citing Elliott Carter and Johann Strauss II as examples of the sme thing before, but I supppose that, as the cliché runs, there's a first time for everything...

[ahinton]

Pity. I would have liked your retake on this....

...together with any tips that might otherwise have been offered, I suppose. Perhaps in time Serial_Apologist might reconsider his position - and time is, after all, a great heel-er (or so I was Tourte, anyway)...

[verismissimo]

Johann Strauss - Pizzicato Polka

Not forgetting the Neue Pizzicato Polka.

[MrGongGong]

Not a fiddle I know
but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl45A3jGKOE

[Roehre]

Louis Andriessen:

Tuin van Zink/Garden of Zinc (i.e, depicting a rainshower passing)

[ahinton]

Not forgetting the Neue Pizzicato Polka.

Isn't that the one to which I referred in #23? - or is there a third one?...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Plink, Plank, Plunk! by Leroy Anderson

- total joy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5bDGlx5-3E

[BBMmk2]

Plucking, violins? Hmm not my scene! :)