Violin and Cello

An exciting communicative musical journey: These Dialogues have the violin and cello adopting different personalities, temperaments and moods to 'speak' to one another. The titles of the pieces and de...

This work of ca. 12 minutes' duration was composed at the suggestion of the cellist Sol Gabetta in remembrance of the great mystic St. Teresa of Avila. Premiered in 2014, it will surely find its way i...

When Ligeti taught composition at the University of Stockholm in the 1960s, he met his famous Swedish fellow composer Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985). Ligeti wrote this musical greeting on the occasion...

Stone, Salt and Sky by Sally Beamish is a 15-minute duet for violin and cello in three movements. The work reflects the colours and open spaces of Orkney (Scotland), and it's music, as well as a refer...

This work was composed for a documentary film made by Maurice Rabinovisz on Proust and music, A la recherche de la sonate de Vinteuil. The producer Guy Darbois had invited four composers, (Régis Campo...

I composed this new collection of short and original duets to offer the possibility, for those who wish, to meet up and play together easily. A stream of duets for strings, woodwind or brass - identic...

Perky Rondo komponierte ich, als Waterhouse noch Schüler an der Highgate School in London war. Perky Rondo war als 'Straßenmusik'- Stück gedacht für die Märkte in Covent Garden oder Portobello. Wenn a...

Duos for Violin and Cello Vol. 1 include 21 new and thrilling compositions by László Rossa. Different modes are explored, as are keys, meters and double-stops. This is an important addition to the Col...

Duos for Violin and Cello Vol. 7 Songs from Various Nations is an around-the-world trip in 11 new compositions by László Rossa. We travel from far-away Tatarstan to the Lapland in Finland and further...

Chen Yi describes the cheery interplay of HAPPY TUNE as: 'When one instrument plays a lively melody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instruments imita...

A lovely duet from Bernofsky; Pas de Deux was commissioned by Roberta Bronecki and premiered on a boat on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Listen to a performance by Third Millennium Ensemble on S...