A Cello Top Ten: Cello: Instrumental Album

Selections from Celloverse In2ition and Score for Two Cellos-Ten cello duets performed by Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser on their four successful album releases  2Cellos (2011)  In2ition (2013)  Celloverse (2015) and Score (2017). The book includes transcriptions of their duets for advanced Cellists as well as separate pull-out sections for each cello part. Songs include Celloverse Every Breath You Take Game of Thrones Moon River My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from 'Titanic') Orient Express Thunderstruck The Trooper Wake Me Up! and We Found Love.

Bwv 1007-1012-Urtext edition with articulation markings - Soft-cover performing editionWhen you think cello you think of Bach?s immortal cello suites.The suites take centre stage in the cello literature. They are timeless and beautiful and accompany cellists from their student years up through their professional career at the highest level.Appropriately and not surprisingly there are countless editions of the suites. But the composer?s autograph has not come down to us. It is lost and this circumstance has always been a major challenge for editors. The four surviving handwritten sources and the original first edition of 1824 differ in many details the articulation andphrasing being particularly ambiguous.At Bärenreiter having published the New Bach Edition and presently publishing the New Bach Edition-Revised we feel particularly committed to the cello suites. We have approached the editorial problems from several angles and have published editions that meet the needs of students and professional performers alike.This new edition based on volume 4 of the New Bach Edition Revised (NBArev) now completes Bärenreiter?s collection of the cello suite editions. Andrew Talle has fundamentally reassessed the relations between the surviving sources and has drawn conclusions regarding their evaluation and consequently the genesis of the suites. His evaluations are augmented with thorough discussions of the instrument for which the suites were conceived and the interpretative practices in Bach's day.The musical text of the edition is based on these findings. It approaches the composer's original intentions as far as the sources will permit. Details regarding articulation were deemed as being viable and were added to the musical text if they appeared in the majority of the sources. ?This edition does not present a perfect reconstruction of the lost autograph; no editor could claim to do so. Instead I have attempted to provide musicians and scholars with a reliable version of the surviving musical text of the six cello suites and to shed light on the options which the Bach sources offer.?- Urtext edition with articulation by the editor on the basis of intensive source comparison- Musical text identical

Aaron Minsky composed this set of ten cello pieces based on musical styles from places around the world such as Mexico Ireland Asia Israel Africa the Caribbean and America. Ten International Cello Encores is perfect for students and recitalists who are looking for fresh new music for solo cello. Though made up of encores it is excellently suited for performance as a concert suite.

These ten duets include works by Corelli Telemann Bach Handel Mozart and Schumann.

Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of a dozen jazz blues tunes are featured in this collection for beginning to intermediate instrumentalists.It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks!Songs include Basin Street Blues C-Jam Blues Freddie Freeloader Night Train One for Daddy-O The Swingin' Shepherd Blues Tenor Madness and more.The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

'Verse 1' marks the beginning of a more ambitious and intense style of composition. The ideas are relatively simple and develop gradually in a cyclic fashion within a one movement sectional design. Progressively faster tempi leadto the main climax of the work near the end of the piece. Then a short coda leads to a very quiet ending and a return to the original tonal centre of C.Quoting composer:'In April 1975 I occupied a flat in Aldeburgh Suffolk near the seafront. As a member of the English Chamber Orchestra I had come to work for a week on a recording of Britten’s opera ‘Death in Venice’ so the real and suggested sound of the sea was in my ears so to speak for dayson end. A few weeks later when I started work on 'Verse 1' it became clear in the first few bars that I was recalling and suggesting the sea and the beach at Aldeburgh. I am not aware of any direct influence from Britten’smusic but I do however quote a small fragment from a theme to be found in a piano quartet by Mahler played early in the piece by the flute (bars 6 & 7).This work was awarded the First Prize in the Viotti InternationalCompetition for composers in Italy in 1975.

2 Pieces For Cello and Piano-Two pieces for cello and piano written by Mats Lidström as a young man. Dedicated to his father and to the memory of his cello teacher the pieces come with one ambition: to write as melodically beautiful as possible.

My youngest son Leif was learning the piano part. We wanted tosurprise his teacher Graeme Humphrey with a private performance. Itwas during piano practise that I started thinking 'why not!' why notcompose my own swan! The idea is not a new one. There is a beautiful- and difficult! - Swan by Finnish composer Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) and a variante on Saint-Saëns' original by his student LeopoldGodowsky (1870-1938) enriched in the deliciously imaginative way sotypical of him. For my own undertaking I wanted part of the materialto associate with Saint-Saëns' Swan to be immediately recognisable.Beyond beauty and resplendence I sought no further.Two different endings hint at Saint-Saëns' original in which the lastchord of the piano part has the length of an eighth-note. A remarkableend to a piece of such dignity and grandeur possibly eccentric butit often leads to performances ending on a fermata for both players.This is unquestionably very beautiful and atmospheric and comeswith a guaranteed effect on an audience which is ready to seek reliefin a sigh. This to be weighed of course against the composer's owndesign. Your call.