Spectrum for Violin is an exciting introduction to the music of today for all violinists, containing specially commissioned pieces from some of today's leading composers. Pieces range in standard from Grades 1 to 8. The book comes with a CD recording of the 16 pieces which also includes recorded accompaniments for the two works composed for violin and soundtrack. The highly successful Spectrum series was established by ABRSM and Thalia Myers in 1996 and now includes volumes for piano, cello, clarinet and string quartet. This volume of Spectrum spectacularly succeeds, as have its predecessors, in turning something that might have been a worthy but dull enterprise into something refreshing, vital and well worth having.