Suite for Cello and Piano

Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story about the adventures of a boy and the snowman that comes to life is a modern children's classic. The tales popularity has been further enhanced by frequent television broadcasts of theaward-winning cartoon film The Snowman.In this suite for Cello and Piano composer Howard Blake recreated the story in music based on the scenes from the film. The music includes the hit song Walking In TheAir

Made in England is a collection of pieces chosen from the recordings Julian Lloyd Webber has made over the last 20 years. This complilation mixes old favourites such as Saint-Saens 'The Swan' with more recent compositions such as Elton John's 'Your Song'. / Violoncelle Et Piano

Ed. Otto Deri. 17 pieces appropriate for recital or contest use. Contents: Allegro Maestoso (Handel) - Allegro Spiritoso (Senaille) - Andante (Beethoven) - Andante (Gluck) - Aria (Lotti) - Bourrée I (Bach) - Country Dance - La Cinquantine (The Golden Wedding) - Larghetto (Handel) - Lento (Schumann) - Lullaby - Menuet (Mozart) - Nina (Pergolesi) - Romance - Sicilienne (Debussy) - The Swan (Saint-Saëns) - Village Song (Popper)./ Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

CELLOWISE is an exciting new collection of arrangements from the popular classics. The standard is from Grade 3 upwards and included are Bach Badinerie Handel Sarabande Haydn Gipsy Rondo Gossec Gavotte and Tambourin Brahms Hungarian Dance and other favourites with attached CD of top quality performances making a pleasant and varied recital programme both to listen to and of course to play. Cellowise is featured on the 2014 Bauhinia Cup String Competition in Hong Kong and is on the current syllabuses of Trinity College London the Musik-PrüfungsKommission in Vienna and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin 2015-2018.FOOTNOTE TO CONTENTSOriginally a folk-dance from Medieval Spain the Sarabande became the spiritual centre-point of the 18th. Century dance suite and well-known to cellists through the Bach Suites.The Badinerie is a musical haiku stunning in its precision and economy of means and like a poem condenses much meaning and expression into few words.Sir Yehudi Menuhin once called the 'Erbarme Dich' solo the most beautiful piece of music ever written for the violin. This poignant duet for voice and obligato is about remorse betrayal and the universal theme of suffering. It is one of the centre-pieces of the St. Matthew Passion and is sung after Peter has denied Christ betraying him to the authorities and to his Crucifixion.Gavotte and Tambourin. These two Dances reflect the political opposites of the French Revolution - one a popular dance for partying and celebration the other more courtly and considered a favourite of Marie Antoinette.Rondo all'Ongarese and Hungarian Dance.Hungarian Folk music is fiery and impassioned with virtuoso techniques of embellishment and improvisation. Haydn and Brahms incorporated these elements into Classical forms.Like other Romantic and early-Romantic composers (Mendelssohn and Schubert) Brahms was attracted to Scotland as a wild and beautiful country of myth and

Another volume in this highly acclaimed series premiering sensational new arrangements for cello. CELLOWISE 2 includes Lacrimosa by Mozart Paganini's La Campanella Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Brahms Waltzes Op. 39 and Bach's Gavotte en Rondeau from Violin Partita in E made famous by Segovia.With the drama and spectacle of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet acrobatic leaps and fun of the Fair in Moussorgsky's Gopak reflective chiaroscuro of the Brahms Waltzes the fireworks of Paganini's La Campanella mystical Lacrimosa of Mozart's Requiem or Bach's colourful variations in the Gavotte en Rondeau this selection explores vivid and dramatic themes fromthe great Classics. It is idiomatic to the cello clear and accessible in technical format and makes a practical and versatile concert handbook for cellists of all ages.ContentsBach    * 3. Polonaise (from Suite No. 2 BWV 1067)    * 4. Gavotte en Rondeau (from Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006)Brahms    * 7. Waltz op. 39 No. 9    * 8. Waltz op. 39 No. 15Handel    * 1. Hornpipe (from the Water Music)    * 2. Air (from the Water Music)Mozart    * 5. Lacrimosa (from the Requiem K626)Mussorgsky (Moussorgsky)    * 9. Gopak (from Sorochintsky Fair)Paganini    * 6. La CampanellaProkofiev    * 10. Montagues and Capulets (from Romeo and Juliet)

Category: String Series Format: Book & CD Instrument: Cello Instrumentation: Cello (with Piano Acc.) Level: Level 2-3 The arrangements in this new series were written especially for violin, viola, and cello, taking into account the specific needs of each instrument. All the arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be played in small ensembles or as solos. Each book features a specially designed piano accompaniment that can be easily played by a teacher or intermediate piano student, and a carefully crafted removable part, complete with bowings, articulations, and keys well suited for the Level 2-3 player. Each song on the fully orchestrated accompaniment CD includes a demo track, which features a live string performance, followed by the play-along track by itself. Titles are: Diamonds Are Forever * For Your Eyes Only * From Russia with Love * Goldfinger * The James Bond Theme * Live and Let Die * Nobody Does It Better * On Her Majesty's Secret Service * Thunderball * Tomorrow Never Dies * The World Is Not Enough * You Only Live Twice.

The Boosey and Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy. The Romanian Folk Dances were originally written in 1915 as a suite of six short piano pieces, which Bartók subsequently orchestrated for small ensemble. In this edition, Hywel Davies has arranged the suite for cello with piano accompaniment. / Violoncelle Et Piano

Cyril Scott was an English composer writer and poet. He was essentially a late romantic composer whose style was at the same time strongly influenced by impressionism. His harmony was notably exotic. Scott wrote around four hundred works which include two mature symphonies three operas three Piano concertos concertos for Violin Cello Oboe and Harpsichord several overtures four oratorios as well as a mass of chamber music.Between 1903 and 1920 Scott wrote copiously for the Piano. Most of these pieces were harmonically adventurous for their time and easy to play; they circulated widely in manycountries of the world.A Little Russian Suite for Piano was composed during this period. This complete edition includes all three movements (Russian Air  Siberian Waltz Dance) which can either be played separately or together as a suite.Performance time of the whole suite is approximately 6 minutes.

? l??poque de Joseph Haydn les concertos de soliste ?taient g?n?ralement destin?s ? un musicien bien pr?cis. Dans le cas du c?l?bre concerto pour violoncelle en r? majeur Hob. VII:2 de Haydn il s?agit du premier violoncelle de l?orchestre du prince Esterh?zy Anton Kraft qui devint par la suite l?un des plus grands virtuoses de Vienne. Cette ?uvre de circonstance devint par la suite un chef-d??uvre pour l??ternit? dont est parvenue ? la post?rit? une partition autographe de la main du compositeur dat?e de 1783. Pour la publication de la r?duction pour piano de ce concerto nous avons eu le plaisir de collaborer avec la sp?cialiste de Haydn Sonja Gerlach. Cette derni?reenrichit l??dition urtext d?une pr?face d?taill?e o? elle aborde notamment le sujet de la r?alisation des ornements et celui des cadences reproduites.

Description Solos For The Cello Player Seventeen intermediate level pieces representing various stylistic periods. Songlist Allegro (Violin Sonata Op.1 No.15) [Handel, George Frideric] Allegro Spiritoso [Senaille, Jean Baptiste] Andante [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] Andante (Orfeo) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald] Aria [Lotti, Antonio] Country Dance [Weber, Carl Maria Von] La Cinquantaine (Air In The Olden Style) [Marie, Gabriel] Larghetto (Violin Sonata Op.1 No.13) [Handel, George Frideric] Lento (Five Pieces In A Popular Mood) [Schumann, Robert] Lullaby [Brahms, Johannes] Menuet (Divertimento In D, K334) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Nina (Canzonetta) [Pergolesi, Giovanni] Romance [Debussy, Claude] Sicilienne [Faure, Gabriel] The Swan (Carnival Of The Animals) [Saint-Saens, Camille] Two Bourrees (Third Cello Suite] [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Village Song [Popper, David]