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ABRSM expands download shop
Rob Hughes Feb 4 2010, 10:39am
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Violin, flute and clarinet students can now access exam repertoire
ABRSM has expanded its audio download shop to include recordings of pieces set for ABRSM violin, flute and clarinet exams, to complement the existing collection of piano exam repertoire.
The expanded range will give many more students and teachers the facility to preview, purchase and download recordings of individual pieces set on ABRSM syllabuses for as little as 79 pence each. The shop can be found online at www.abrsm.org/audioshop.
Launched in 2008 with recordings of ABRSM’s Piano syllabus (2009 and 2010), the download service has already proved highly popular with pianists. It now includes almost every piece from ABRSM syllabuses for violin (2008 to 2011), flute and clarinet (both 2008 to 2013). Among the huge range of repertoire, violinists will find Howard Blake’s jovial Dance of the Snowmen (from the famous animated film) at grade 5 and Sentimental Romance by Wilhelm Stenhammar (sometimes known as ‘the Swedish Elgar’) at grade 8.
Individual movements from Koechlin’s 14 pieces were reintroduced to the Flute syllabus in 2008 and flautists at grades 1, 2, 4 and 5 can enjoy these pieces. grade 3 clarinettists will find Mendelssohn’s Song without Words and Arabesque by Germaine Tailleferre (the only female member of the early 20th-century French group of composers, Les Six) at grade 7.
The preview facility allows all users to try out ten seconds of any track before making the decision to purchase. Recordings of pieces set at grades 1–5 are priced at 79 pence each and those at grades 6–8 are 99 pence each. Those purchasing violin, flute or clarinet exam repertoire will actually receive two tracks: the exemplar recording of solo instrument with piano accompaniment and a bonus track that includes just the piano accompaniment alone, for playalong practice. There are also special offer ‘bundles’ of pieces set at the same grade and the facility to ‘send to a friend’, which allows users to send emails to other people in order to recommend a piece to them.
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“abrsm again!”
Posted by: ageing rocker G - Feb 4, 4:38pm
Once again thank you abrsm for the bullet in the foot. You just don't get it do you. The more reasons you give customers for not going into a shop, the less they will go into a shop. First it was piano pieces in one book, followed by flute and clarinet from different publishers in one book ( did anyone else have the circulars about discount on books suddenly)? I take it I can now happily bin my stock of c/d's? How about this for a new one? Lets make everything half price, then they will buy two! No? Wonder why? G