Schirmer - Cello

Easy to Intermediate Level / G. Schirmer Instrumental Library-An ideal collection for a student performing in a contest or recital after 3-4 years of study. All of the pieces can be played comfortably in first position.Cello recordings are by Joseph Johnson principal Cello for theMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Pianist Judit Jaimes.

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.

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

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.

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.

Spanish composer Leonardo Balada dresses Bach's melodies in musical finery that examines thematic variation shifting tonal centers sharply contrasting timbres and instrumental balance. Described as 'a work in continual nervous motion full of contrasting interlocking speeds and rhythm' by the New York Times this advanced work for Cello and Piano is an exploration of both Bach and of the two instruments. Leonardo Balada serves as University Professor of Composition at Carnegie Mellon University.

Encores For Cello is a compilation of wonderful pieces for the Cellist to keep in reserve for encores. It offers an excellent opportunity to display their technique whilst entertaining the crowd at the climax of a concert!This Great Performers Edition has been expertly arranged and edited by the Cellist Janos Starker. With popular works by Schubert Schumann and Saint-Saens these are guaranteed crowd-pleasers!

This book contains 40 Etudes that are essential for the intermediate to advanced cellist. Each exercise covers a specific area of technique that aims to stregthen arm muscles finger agility and every aspect of bowing.

A well presented editon revised and prepared by Fritz Gaillard. The sixth suite was originally written for a five-stringed instrument now obsolete thus its technical difficulty. The editor has offered optional revisions for the player's consideration.