Cello Play-Along Series Volume 9-The Cello Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the printed music and play along using the original backing tracks available online for download or streaming.This volume lets you play along with the Piano Guys! It contains ten selections from the Piano Guys' 2017 holiday album with original backing tracks created and recorded by the Piano Guys. The backing tracks are included in the price of this book. Songs include O Holy Night/Ave Maria • Mary Did You Know?/Corelli Christmas Concerto • Ode to Joy to the World • What Child Is This • Gloria!/Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • O Little One Sweet• The Little Drummer Boy/Do You Hear What I Hear • Silent Night • The Manger and The Sweetest Gift.

Cello Play-Along Volume 1-The Cello Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the printed music and play along using the original backing tracks available online for download or streaming. This inaugural volume lets you play along with original audio tracks recorded by the Piano Guys! Songs include: Ants Marching/Ode to Joy · Batman Evolution · Because of You · Don't You Worry Child · Father's Eyes · Home · Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends · Let It Go · The Mission/How Great Thou Art · Pictures at an Exhibition · Story of My Life · Summer Jam. Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary

Par PEPIN CAMILLE. Création du 25 août 2019, à l’abbaye de Silvacane dans le cadre du Festival de Quatuors du Lubéron, par le Quatuor Auryn. Feuilles d’eau de Silvacane est une œuvre pour quatuor à cordes dédiée au Quatuor Auryn. Créée durant l’été 2019 à l’Abbaye de Silvacane dans le sud de la France, la pièce fait tout d’abord écho aux motifs ornementaux typiques des abbayes cisterciennes du XIIè siècle appelés les « feuilles d’eau ». Il s’agit de feuilles qui s’évasent et se replient en volutes, décorant les chapiteaux de colonnes qui portent les retombées des voûtes. Ces sobres motifs m’inspiraient déjà un matériau musical à transformer durant toute la pièce. Mais le titre fait aussi référence au magnifique travail de Fabienne Verdier [1] dans ses Feuilles d’eau de Silvacane (2004) : une série de six toiles de 46 x 27,5cm réalisées avec de l’encre, des pigments et du vernis. Elle représente six feuilles d’eau à l’encre noire diluée sur fond gris (la pierre de Silvacane). Un petit carré rouge représente l’alchimie - le feu intérieur menant à la transcendance - sur chacune des toiles. Pour la coloriste et l’amoureuse des textures instrumentales que je suis, la technique de Fabienne Verdier est fascinante. Elle s’inspire du style calligraphique chinois intitulé l’herbe folle : impression fugitive, improvisation extravagante née d’une pulsion intérieure. Cette démarche artistique trouve résonance en moi car le « déclic » amenant l’idée qui va irriguer toute une pièce se fait toujours de manière surprenante. Je ne sais jamais véritablement comment cette idée abstraite a soudain pu devenir concrète et couchée sur le papier ! Pendant l’écriture de cette pièce, j’avais donc à l’esprit cette sobriété des abbayes cisterciennes et les images de cette encre diluée, liquide et diaphane, sur les toiles de Verdier. Mais j’ai bien sûr pensé à la feuille de la nature elle-même ! J’ai cherché diverses palettes de couleurs et de grains pour habiller la sonorité du quatuor à cordes et nourrir la matière comme la sève nourrit une plante. J’ai utilisé un matériau organique se régénérant et se renouvelant sans cesse. Il inonde toute la pièce au fil des images que j’avais. Tout d’abord, celle de l’aube fraîche et brumeuse et des gouttes de rosée qui perlent sur les feuilles (pizzicati du début) - des reflets irisés du soleil naissant sur les feuilles - des rayons de lumière faibles et instables qui tentent de percer à travers les feuillages (trémolos d’harmoniques). Ces derniers se font de plus en plus insistants pour émerger de ces aplats fondus à la texture bruissante et dont le reprises d’archet sont imperceptibles. Le grain change (sur le chevalet, sur la touche, flautando, ricochets) comme la lumière varie de couleur et d’intensité au cours d’une journée. Ce sont autant de touches impressionnistes qui se fondent et se diluent dans la matière. Elles laissent place à une partie centrale brillante et dansante à la pulse inépuisable, célébrant ainsi la force mystérieuse et vitale de la matière végétale toujours en transformation. La pièce se termine par l’éclat de la lune se levant sur les jardins de Silvacane, baignant ainsi les feuilles d’eau de cette lueur crépusculaire. Camille Pépin/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Sonata for Violin and Cello and composed by Luigi Boccherini was transcribed and annotated by Paul Bazelaire a professor at the National Conservatoire. Ideal for a recital or for a contest this sonata in four parts is quite challenging for both instruments and would require advanced skills. The Cello score is written over the C and the F key and each of the four parts includes numerous repetitions and fast sections. These four parts are 1. Allegretto Spiritoso 2. Vivace 3. Grave and 4. Allegro Assai. This really nice Sonata will be a delight to play and to listen to. LuigiBoccherini (1743-1806) composed numerous pieces for various instruments including Cello duets chamber music cantatas ballets orchestral music masses and a large amount of music for strings.

Nocturnes is a set of four studies for Cello and Piano by Bohuslav Martinu. These four pieces can be played for a recital or a contest separately or following one another by upper-intermediate players and above. This volume features:  I. Andantino moderato – two first parts starting with a solo of Piano including many accidentals some trills and some pizzicatos  II. Lento– starts by an exchange of sets of chords between the Piano and the Cello which is played a second time at the end of the piece  III. Moderato –starts by the Piano on its own which is the joined by the Cello  IV. Allegretto moderato – swapping from pizzicato to bow few times in the suite  Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) is a Czech composer and a violinist. Even though he was interested in different genres (including Romanticism Jazz and Expressionism) he wrote mainly neo-classical pieces including 16 symphonies 14 ballets and 15 operas.

Composed in 1948 the Cello Sonata or Sonata for Cello and Piano by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was dedicated to Pierre Fournier the French cellist. Its four movements mainly ternary are as listed below: - Allegro (Tempo di Marcia) - Cavatine - Ballabile - Finale Pierre Fournier partly helped Francis Poulenc to compose the Cello part as this latter was not a specialist of this instrument. Francis Poulenc is French composer and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces Operas ('Dialogues des Carmélites') ballets ('Les Biches') as well as some orchestralworks.

Composed by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinü in 1930  Suite Miniature is a chamber work for Cello and Piano that lasts 10 minutes and 30 seconds. The difficulty for Cello is considered as medium and for the Piano easy to medium. Suite Miniature is divided in seven sections: I. Moderato II. Poco andante III. Poco moderato IV. Andante V. Poco allegro VI. Allegretto VII. Moderato Good for recitals this piece is really melodic and cheerful with some parts quiet and others quite energetic. BohuslavMartinü(1890-1959) also wrote 13 other ballets 15 operas and 6 symphonies and some orchestral and chamber music.

Par LEWIS GEORGE. Although his Signifying Riffs (1998) for percussion and strings is halfway there, String Quartet 1.5: Experiments in Living (2016) is the first proper string quartet by composer George Lewis. Borrowing its title from the writings of John Stuart Mill, Experiments in Living leads the performers through a series of idiosyncratic episodes featuring extremes of gesture and extended technique over the course of a single, 16-minute movement. Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, String Quartet 1.5: Experiments in Living was composed for Spektral Quartet, who gave the premiere performance in October 2016 at Chicago\'s Harris Theater. This set of score and parts has been made available for sale by Edition Peters as part of the Peters Contemporary Chamber Series and includes full performance notes. Chopsticks and superball mallets are required to achieve some of the score\'s percussive playing techniques. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par WUORINEN CHARLES. Charles Wuorinen\'s Second Piano Trio was found on his desk at the time of his passing in March 2020. A single, nine-minute movement, it is characterized by a complex, lively rhythmic interplay between the three instruments, in particular a wittily repeated figure of sixteenth-note quintuplets. Upon reviewing Wuorinen\'s third and final draft for this piece posthumously, three of Wuorinen\'s close musical confidant his student, composer Anthony Cornicello, who edited and engraved the work; his partner and manager, Howard Stokar; and his frequent collaborator, cellist Fred Sherry have decided unanimously that while Wuorinen would certainly have added small details to the score, what he has left behind is a complete and substantial piece. It is published for sale as a full piano score with violin and cello parts. This is the last known work completed by Charles Wuorinen. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Violon, Violoncelle et Piano

Qigang Chen : Reflet d'un temps disparu - sur une ancienne mélodie de Yuan Yi Violoncelle et piano Commande de Radio France. Création du 23 avril 1998 au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris, par Yo-Yo Ma (violoncelle) et l'Orchestre National de France, sous la direction de Charles Dutoit.