EDITION : PIANO REDUCTION WITH SOLO PART INSTRUMENTATION : CELLO AND STRING ORCHESTRA CATALOGUE OF WORKS : G 479 DURATION : 20' DATE OF PUBLICATIONS : 18/04/1986 NUMBER OF PAGES : 37 ARRANGER : LEBERMANN, WALTER SERIES : CELLO LIBRARY

Hungarian Rondo was composed by Zoltán Kodály in December 1917, drawing on material from the incidental music he had written for Zsigmond Móriczs play Pacsirtaszó (Skylarking). The rondo form is shaped out of four new-style Hungarian folk songs and an instrumental dance melody. Kodály prepared the piece in two somewhat different versions, one for two clarinets, two bassoons and string orchestra, and the other for cello and piano. The orchestral version received its first performance in Vienna on 12 January 1918 at a 'historical concert' organized by the War Ministry of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The cello version was premi?red by Miklós Zsámboky and Ottó Herz at the Budapest Academy of Music on 4 November 1927. Neither version appeared in print in the composers lifetime. The version for string orchestra was edited in 1976 by Ferenc Farkas and István Máriássy (and is distributed as a hire material under the order number K-1). The cello version appears here in print for the first time. The publication is based on the composers surviving manuscript and a contemporary manuscript copy of this. The fingerings are by the editor. / Violoncelle Et Piano

Easy Solo Cello and Piano-A collection of 12 traditional carols for easy cello (Grade 2) and piano accompaniment from master arranger Bruce Healey. This group of delightful arrangements will become your most valuable resource of holiday music for years tocome. Each carol is given a fresh creative treatment yet is expertly arranged with younger players in mind. Songs include: Away in a Manger ? We Wish You a Merry Christmas ? Deck the Halls ? Ding Dong Merrily onHigh ? God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen ? Greensleeves ? O Come All Ye Faithful ? Chanukah Oy Chanukah ? O Holy Night ? Pat-A-Pan ? Silent Night ? Three Holiday Songs (Medley including TheDreydl Song Jingle Bells and Joy to the World).Also available for:00841986 Solo Violin and Piano 00842194 Solo Viola and Piano 04490404 String Quartet String Orchestra:? 04490308 Conductor Score ? 04490309 Violin 1 part ? 04490310 Violin 2 part ? 04490311 Violin 3 part (Viola T.C.) ? 04490312 Viola part ? 04490313Cello part ? 04490314 String Bass part ? 04490315 Piano ? 04490316 Opt. Harp ? 04490317 Opt. Percussion

In memory of Christopher Rowland. Originally a concerto for Cello and chamber orchestra now for Cello with a Piano reduction of the orchestral part.The concerto is in four movements which are played without a break: Meditation Intermezzo Toccata-Scherzo and Song. The work lasts for some 18 minutes and was scored for two oboes two horns timpani (doubling tubular bells) and strings(found here in a Cello/Piano form). It is organised in one large arch-shaped structure with two fast inner movements flanked by two outer slow ones. The solo cello opens the work reflectively and introduces core melodic material which is continuously developed throughout theconcerto. Gradually the strings enter then wind and timpani and build a pyramid twelve-note chord at the peak of which there is a dramatic climax. The music then subsides (solo cello again) but links to the two faster middle movements. The second movement Intermezzo has an ABA structure and in its middle section quotes the opening of Shostakovich's Third String Quartet (written in the same year as Christopher Rowland was born!). Indeed the ghost of Shostakovich looms large throughout the concerto in more ways than one. The Toccata-Scherzo is energetic and rhythmically-charged again using an ABA structure. Here the writing for solo cello is quite virtuosic but not I hope in a shallow sense. The music builds inexorably towards a powerful climax underpinned by the opening twelve-note chord's re-appearance together with a violent outburst from the timpani at which point a tonal resolution (on G) arrives through a pianissimo held chord on strings which leads directly to the final movement - Song. And so the music arrives at its emotional heart through a simple melody (present in other forms throughout the work) announced by solo cello at the very top of its register against a quiet backdrop of horns and strings. A solo oboe enters with cello in canonic reply and all the time the music builds in texture and