13 pieces of easy to intermediate standard ideal for lessons and concerts. As well as popular Baroque sonatas by the likes of Vivaldi and de Fesch, there are also some charming, lesser-known compositions by Lanzetti and Zocarini. Also included are Classical sonatas by J. C. F. Bach, Stephen Paxton and Beethoven alongside pieces from the Romantic era including Mendelssohn's Song Without Words Op. 109, Fauré's Sicilienne Op. 79 as well as two little pieces by Goltermann. / Violoncelle Et Piano

Op. 109-This standard work of the cello literature has been extracted from volume II of the Complete Works for Violoncello and Pianoforte (BA 9096 and BA 9097) which was published in 2016. Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd edited the scholarly-critical edition of “Song without Words”.This work is not based on the surviving autograph manuscript which could not have been the basis for the posthumous first edition but rather on the only plausible source: the German first edition itself. This was published in 1868 as op. 109 and is unquestionably based on an untraceable complete final manuscript perhaps once previously owned by the dedicatee French cellist LisaBarbier Cristiani.The publication is free from editorial amendments and modern performance instructions and provides an excellent basis for musical interpretation.

for Violoncello and Piano with marked and unmarked string part-The ?Romance sans paroles dédiée Mlle. Lise Christiani? thus described in the surviving autograph was only published as op. 109 from the composer?s estate in 1868. The French cellist Lise Christiani gave several concerts inLeipzig in October 1845 where she met with Mendelssohn and presumably commissioned him to write this charming work. It is the only ?Song without words? that Mendelssohn wrote for two instruments not piano solo. It was previouslyonly available as part of a collection of works for this instrumentation (HN 669). However the ?Romance sans paroles? a favourite with cellists is now also available as a single Henle Urtext edition.

This title includes four of famous German composer pianist organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn's Original Compositions. Works include Sonatas Opp.45 58 Variations Op.17 and Song without Words Op.109.