When Christ is Born...

Christmas carols those popular Christian songs sung during the festive period - appear every year in various kinds of arrangement - vocal, vocal-instrumental and instrumental - in Polish catalogues of publications. "Christmas Carols and Pastorales" for solo violin, presented here, were written with young violinists in mind, with the intention of providing them with the opportunity of playing such songs in a concert version.

I considered quasi-capriccio, i.e. a short show-piece, the most suitable form for that type of work. In addition to the basic melody, the player will find here a whole range of virtuoso effects: for example, double stops, chords, passage work, arpeggios, tremolando, cross-string bowings, bariolage, ricochet, double staccato, chromatic glissando, harmonics, left-hand pizzicato and even sul ponticello.