Sheet Music for Cello

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...

Kian Soltani played the world premiere of this solo work, which was commissioned by the Daniel Barenboim Foundation. In addition to scordatura effects, Widmann masterfully explores the sound worlds an...

The Cello Sonata Op. 6 was composed over an apparently frequently interrupted period of three years, an extraordinarily long time for Strauss's early creative phase. The compositional process spawned...

It was a pleasure to respond to Sol Gabetta's invitation to contribute a piece to her "Songs Without Words" project with Bertrand Chamayou. The title is closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn Barth...

In eleven contrasting miniatures, this solo work explores the tonal and technical possibilities of the cello. Created during the COVID-19 lockdown, the cycle sees itself as a musical dialog between pl...

The work consists of a single movement subdivided into several sections representing the vision experienced by Don Quijote on his deathbed. The energetic and confused rhythm in the initial part of the...

Durch einen unkoventionellen Aufbau seines Bravourstücks gelingt es Dotzauer, unterschiedliche Cellotechniken vorteilhaft miteinander zu kombinieren und durch virtuose Momente Aufmerksamkeit zu erheis...

Şahmeran is an old Anatolian legend of a snake woman, her love for a human being and his betrayal. The piano reduction for this concert work is intended as a study aid, but can also be used for class...

Barbara Heller composed Inner Dialogue with a sound material made up of several interval series, which are put together in a dialogue-like manner. The composer focuses on upward and downward movements...

Two movements, two worlds of expression: Confessions by A Bu is inspired by chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms and Kapustin. The first movement is a lament, the second a fantasia on the spiritual "Nob...