Encores For Cello is a compilation of wonderful pieces for the Cellist to keep in reserve for encores. It offers an excellent opportunity to display their technique whilst entertaining the crowd at the climax of a concert!This Great Performers Edition has been expertly arranged and edited by the Cellist Janos Starker. With popular works by Schubert Schumann and Saint-Saens these are guaranteed crowd-pleasers!

For solo Cello.Published 1999.Commissioned by Steven Isserlis with funds from the John S Cohen Foundation.First performance: Steven Isserlis Aldeburgh Festival 10th June 2000.Score.

Spring Song is a five-minute piece that celebrates the lyrical long-line expressive and elegant characteristics of the solo Cello. Double-stop passages evoke a carillon of bells all ringing in a flurry atop a largecathedral. At times the piece is very intimate and at other times bold and energized.

Irresistable new tunes for beginner cellists composed and arranged by one of the UK's leading string teachers and authors Mary Cohen creator of a wide range of imaginative teaching publications including Superstart. Bags of Tunes is packed with material on styles children will love including nursery rhymes rounds folk and popular songs as well as plenty of original pieces. The pieces are gently progressive and are all based around the first finger pattern. They are ideal for consolidation work for using alongside any method or tutor and are enjoyable sight-reading practice.

Music Minus One Cello Deluxe 2-CD Set-Schubert's B-flat piano trio is a beautiful and magnificent work lyrical in character and truly a gem in the chamber repertoire. Delicacy and thoughtful integration of the three instruments make it a joy to perform. Includes complete printed music score and two compact discs containing a complete performance with soloist then performed again minus the soloist. Performed by Alan Shulman violoncello Accompaniment: The Vardi Trio: Emanuel Vardi violin Alan Shulman violoncello Edwin Hymovitz piano

Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A minor D. 821 was originally written for piano and arpeggione an instrument of the 1820s combining features of the guitar and the cello. This instrument was in use for just a short period of time so that the composition has now become standard repertoire for cello and piano and this is the version presented here. A handwritten violin part in the hand of Anton Diabelli kept by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris however shows that the sonata’s arpeggione part was initially arranged for violin long before the first print in 1871 introduced the well-known version for cello and piano. WienerUrtext also publishes Diabelli’s arrangement for violin and piano in a separate edition. Both editions are essentially based on Schubert’s autograph the cello part in principle relies on the first printed edition of 1871 the violin part is based on Diabelli’s arrangement. 

The French composer Darius Milhaud wrote prolifically and skilfully. In addition to having been a member of the French avant-garde group 'Les Six' he absorbed jazz influences after spending some time in America and managedto combine the two into his distinctive signature style. This Concerto for Cello No.2 was written in 1945 and is longer than its 1934 predecessor having an approximate duration of 20 minutes.

Music Minus One Cello Deluxe 2-CD Set-We bring you on this MMO album two pieces from diverse ends of the repertoire: Boccherini's beautiful D-major concerto for violoncello with its Baroque themes and Bruch's famous 'Kol Nidrei' with its melding of late Romantic and traditional Hebrew melodies. A great album filled with music to test your abilities in technique and in interpretation. Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing a complete performance with soloist then a second version with the orchestral accompaniment minus you the soloist. Performed by Marcy Chanteaux violoncello Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Emil Kahn