Cello-Bibliothek

These duets for cello by Jacob Klein, now published complete for the first time, are among the most beautiful duets of their kind from the Baroque. Their melodic and harmonic richness coupled with a d...

Krzysztof Penderecki's fondness for the cello becomes apparent. The solo part is juxtaposed by four other cellos. The resulting sound blocks interplay with each other which is in turn repeatedly inter...

The sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) are without doubt among the best compositions for violoncello and basso continuo created in the baroque era. Of these works, it is the Sonata in E minor (RV...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

The Ricercari for violoncello by Domenico Gabrielli are among the earliest pieces for solo cello. They are pieces of improvisational character.With the faithful reproduction of the text and the facsim...

A tribute from Tchaikovsky to the great admired example of Mozart and a challenge for the solo cellist. 'Rokoko-Variationen', the theme of which follows the style of 18th-century music makes high dema...

The musician Alexander Glasunov (1865 1936) from Petersburg owes his musical career to fellow composer Milij Balakirev who put him in contact with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1880 for private studies....

The first volume of arrangements of the most popular Schubert lieder by the virtuoso cellist Friedrich August Kummer. Easily playable arrangements of Die Forelle, Die Ungeduld, Ständchen, Wanderers Na...

The genre of the violoncello concerto was born in 17th-century Italy. Thanks to the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), there exists today not only a wealth of magnificent violin concertos...

Rumor Images' sind etwa ein Jahr nach der Urauführung meiner Oper 'Rumor' entstanden und bilden eine für Solocello und Klavier komponierte Konzentration des ersten Bildes. Eine aus Gerüchten wachsende...

Kompositionsjahr: 2013.

Kompositionsjahr: 2014

Eine Neuerscheinung aus der Cello-Bibliothek: Pendereckis Konzertstück für drei Violoncelli und Orchester gibt es jetzt auch als übersichtlichen Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen - das große, dreisätzige...

The original version for violin dates from 1981, thus being one of the early works by the Israeli composer who teaches at Harvard University. About 35 years later, in 2015, Chaya Czernowin arranged th...

This arrangement of the three-part collection published in 1905 is based on Fritz Kreisler's original version as well as later pianoforte transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The harmonies, chromati...

Jörg Widmann composed this short piece in 2015 for the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez. In this piece, the cello is used in an anything but classical manner: The hands hit the fingerboard, the fingers...

The present transcription of Cadenza was written as part of a complete recording of Penderecki's compositions for violoncello solo at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Luslavice in...

Although Fillmore believed this to be one of his best marches, this piece has been forgotten and has fallen under the shadow of classics from the same compositional period such as His Honor. Endowed w...

Johann Georg Christoph Schetky (1737-1824) grew up at the court of Hessen-Darmstadt where his father was in service to the landgrave Ludwig VIII as a musician and secretary. Schetky studied compositio...

Vytautas Lauru(s

Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879) came from a family of musicians, studied violoncello with the renowned solo cellist Friedrich Dotzauer of the Dresden Court Chapel and then worked as a cellist firs...