Intermediate Sheet Music for Cello

Franz Schubert wrote his Sonata in A minor D 821 for piano and arpeggione, a hybrid instrument between guitar and violoncello that briefly came into fashion in the 1820s. Today, the piece has become a...

Werner Egk komponierte dieses Stück mit 24 Jahren und hinterliess es aber als Fragment. Der Herausgeber hat das einsätzige Quartett mit kompositorischen Mitteln, die Egk bereits vorgegeben hat, vollen...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

The edition is part of teh ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

Who does not remember the humorous stories by Wilhelm Busch from childhood days? Or, worse even, has not met 'hostile neighbours' once in his/her life as a musician? With subtle irony, Wilfried Hiller...

Deep Slavic emotions and gripping virtuosity - that's what characterizes many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even if he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born composer nevertheles...

Apart from the famous Rococo Variations, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky composed another work for solo violoncello: Pezzo capriccioso, Opus 62. It is dedicated to Brandoukoff (Brandukov) with whom he had perfor...

The popularity of his (first) violin concerto drove Max Bruch not just almost to despair - 'I cannot listen to this concerto any more', he wrote to his publisher - it also got in the way of the compos...

Scent Dance II für Viola solo basiert auf der Fassung für Violoncello aus dem Jahr 2010. Inspiriert wurde das vielschichtig virtuose Werk durch Xuntian Hes Gedicht Passing by the Earth, in dem der Aut...

The Moscow-based composer Alexander Rosenblatt writes music that ranges between classical and jazz music. His composition 'Waltz Elegy' is an expressive piece full of melancholy, a 'song without words...

As is the case with 'Trauermusik', there now exists an organ version of its sister work. Heribert Breuer, choir director and professor in Berlin, arranged the score for the organ, thus opening up furt...

Since the last movement of this piece, which is perhaps the most beautiful of Hindemith's pieces, is a chorale, a version for string instrument plus organ is the obvious work to publish. Thus, 'Trauer...

Eine frühe Komposition von Aribert Reimann: Das knapp vierminütige Werk für Violoncello und Klavier verbindet ein elegisches Adagio mit gewohnt anspruchsvoller Rhythmik - jetzt als Neuauflage erschien...

Friedrich Schneider ist heute vor allem durch sein umfangreiches Œuvre im Bereich des Oratoriums bekannt. Nicht weniger bedeutend ist jedoch - neben seinem symphonischen Schaffen - vor allem sein Werk...

Enjott Schneider's Concerto for violoncello takes up the Sumerian legend of the bird deity 'Dugud' in archaic scenes. Legend has it that Princess Emeshe was impregnated by the hermaphrodite - half eag...

A simple folk-song theme inspired the Spanish composer and pianist Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-97) to write 13 piano variations in which he takes up the wealth of colour, wit and virtuosity of an Albéniz...

Die Liedinterpretationskunst von Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau hat David Geringas zu diesen wunderbar klingenden Bearbeitungen für Cello und Klavier inspiriert. Durch ihren mittleren Schwierigkeitsgrad eig...