Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

With plenty of excitement and anticipation, this exuberant carol sets a medieval macronic text, featuring changing metres and a driving piano part. Also available in a version for solo low voice.

This continuous cycle (c.16 minutes without narrator, c.24 with narrator) intersperses seven poems by R. S. Thomas with seven movements for solo cello. The music is evocative, moving, and thoughtfully...

Solos for Young Cellists is an eight-volume series of music compilations with companion CDs. The series ranges from elementary to advanced levels and represents a truly exciting variety of musical gen...

Magic Carpet is a collection of audience-pleasing concert pieces for the youngest beginners. These pieces can be used in either a reading-based or Suzuki teaching environment, and teachers can choose...

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical trad...

Violoncello und Klavier

Violoncello solo

Violoncello solo Violoncelle Original contemporary work for solo cello. Commissioned by Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateurs from Paris (France). Premiered on April 2, 2010, at the Auditorium Sai...

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 composer Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) from Oppenheim studied composition with Max Reger in Leipzig. Her expressive style is characterised by polyphonic settings and late-Romantic harmony. Sonate fü...

To write new music for music lessons is the special concern of the composer Barbara Heller. This cycle was created in collaboration with two cello teachers. It consists of 7 pieces in common notation...

Barbara Heller's duet 'Herbstmusik' [Autumnal Music] for cello and piano is a short piece of 5-6 minutes' duration which is as vibrant and colourful as the season itself and a welcome addition to the...

The title goes back to the illustrated book 'Kamfu mir helfen?' by Dirk Schmidt & Barbara Schmidt. The charming story inspired the composer to write music which, according to tradition, is based on th...

For solo cello. Quoting Saariaho: The title evokes the two gestures which are at the origin of the work: on the one hand the pattern which I call 'spinning tops' turning around on the one spot or unde...

This work was commissioned by Rudolf Steiner Foundation. It is dedicated to Anssi Karttunen, who gave the first performance in Helsinki on 10th September 2000. Sept papillons was the first piece Saari...

Scored for solo Cello, Dreaming is Kaija Saariaho's contribution to the set of thirty-two works by various composers written for the collection Mystery Variations in 2011. The piece is preceded by a...

The theme of this work is 'man & machine', as commissioned by Michael Nicolas. The theme is represented in that the Cellist becomes both in the piece - man & machine - where man indicates performing e...

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