Partitions pour violoncelle solo

This is one of the best Cello concertos of the twentieth century, and readily communicates the Bohuslav Martinu strong feelings for his homeland. Written over the Christmas and New year period of 1944...

For cello and orchestra (piano reduction). First performed and recorded by Yo Yo Ma and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Spring Song is a five-minute piece that celebrates the lyrical, long-line, expressive and elegant characteristics of the solo Cello. Double-stop passages evoke a carillon of bells, all ringing in a fl...

This piece for unaccompanied cello solo transforms the gentle arches of Bach's theme into slowly soaring arpeggi of almost unending phrase lengths. It was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma in Boston in 1997 in me...

This piece was originally composed in 1989, with a new version created in 2002, commissioned by cellist Kate Dillingham and premiering in April 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.

A short movement depicting the hibernation of a baby bear cub. 2 minutes.

Three songs for violoncello and pipa (a Chinese lute) based on popular folk tunes the composer heard while growing up in China. 8 minutes.

Danielpour's Cello Concerto was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma and the San Francisco Symphony in 1994. In four movements: Invocation, Profanation, Soliloquy, Prayer and Lamentation. 31 minutes.

Cast in two scenes, both movements of Abu Ghraib begin in unrest then transition into quieter places which leave the first music behind. Harbison incorporates an Iraqi lullaby and popular American hym...

Krome, Hermann, ed

This piece draws inspiration from the book City of Falling Angels which gives a rich portrayal of Venice. The use of extended melodies that contrast with fragmented phrases portray the beauty of this...

An accompaniment to Crawford's arrangement for the Emerging Voices series, Schubert's original piano part, with slight adaptation by the arranger, is presented here for pianists that wish to embrace t...

This joyous arrangement of a traditional spiritual for choir and orchestra is propelled by a light swing tempo. The mood grows more and more euphoric with each succeeding stanza of text, and the uplif...

Earth grown old is a melancholic setting of a text by Christina Rossetti. With a falling bassline, artful use of inverted and diminished chords, and a wordless soprano solo, this carol perfectly captu...

Six miniatures. 'Progressively laying out aspects of cello technique - double stopping, pizzicato, glacial harmonies - and then combining them, the work builds to a substantial fourth movement and the...

With plenty of excitement and anticipation, this exuberant carol sets a medieval macronic text, featuring changing metres and a driving piano part. Also available in a version for solo low voice.

newly edited edition, off-printed from the Walton Edition vol. 19 'Chamber Music'The Passacaglia for solo Cello, one of Walton's last works, was commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich and first perform...

Cello and piano reduction of Walton's Cello Concerto, based on the edition published in the Walton Edition Violin and Cello Concertos volume. Orchestral material is available on hire.

Cello Time Scales is brimming over with creative ideas to make learning scales and arpeggios easy, covering the finger patterns used in Cello Time Joggers and Runners, and including all the scales and...

This fantasia for solo cello and orchestra is based on five folk tunes, and was first performed by Pablo Casals in 1930. The piano reduction was prepared by John Lenehan from the original score and th...

This continuous cycle (c.16 minutes without narrator, c.24 with narrator) intersperses seven poems by R. S. Thomas with seven movements for solo cello. The music is evocative, moving, and thoughtfully...

This is a spirited arrangement of the popular fourteenth-century carol, with an optional part for tambourine in the final verse. An English singing translation is presented alongside the original Lati...

Written the year before the Six Figures, Arioso is a study in scalic and chordal figures, retaining Skempton's signature simplicity and repetitiveness throughout. Grail Transformation and Epiphany bri...