Partitions de Schirmer pour Violoncelle

Le but de ces transcriptions à la première position est de permettre à l'élève de violoncelle jeune pour jouer et profiter de Bach, après un an ou moins d'instruction. Suites de Bach pour Violoncelle Solo et Sonates pour violoncelle et piano sont si difficiles techniquement que des années de pratique sont nécessaires avant qu'un étudiant peut tenter de les jouer. Il est à espérer que ces pièces se révélera être un complément utile au répertoire limité de la violoncelliste début. / Violoncelle / 20 pages / niveau : Facile / Partition Cd

Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful composers. Her bold and energetic music with its striking imagery and novel structural forms has won large enthusiastic audiences. This work for Cello and Pianowas written as a homage to Olivier Messiaen whose 'risk-taking' approach the composer felt had a special influence on her own works.

Work for Cello and Orchestra commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and premiered by Yo-Yo Ma in 1990.

This is a deeply felt concerted work for cello and orchestra. It is in a moderate twentieth century style modal rather than chromatic a tonal work with a mood that is elegiac and dramatic. The Kaddish is a prayerordinarily given during Jewish services for the dead though it never mentions Death. There are traditional melodies and Hebrew cantillation associated with the text but Diamond did not use any of these nor indeed anyparticular Jewish music. The themes he says are his own concept. In describing the form and style of the music Diamond relates the Kaddish to others of his compositions that have some connection to ritual neither theater musicnor abstract music.The music is primarily melodic. Its modal quality suggests the work's Jewish connection but the actual mode is not specifically Jewish in sound. The work rises to a serious and affirmative climaxtowards its end then subsides.

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 memory of RobertGoldberg.

Based on folk melodies and other songs collected by the composer from various regions of China Seven Tunes Heard In China was written for Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and first performed October 1995. Duration 20 minutes. Edited byYo-Yo Ma.

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

Nos 14-21-The modern method of 'cello playing dates only from about the last third of the eighteenth century. While the great Italian masters had developed the art of the violin before the end of the seventeenth it remained for the Frenchman Jean-Louis Duport to bring order and system into the method of the 'cello. As a continuation of Book 1 these etudes are written to improve finger agility and bowing technique for the intermediate to advanced cellist.This edition of Duport’s Etudes has been edited and fingered by Leo Schulz.