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

For Violoncello And Piano-This brief utterly charming and tuneful piece was probably committed to paper in 1894 though Fauré based it on an older version for cello and organ. The subsequent tempo change to ?Andante quasi Allegretto? made the work?soriginal title of ?Andante? obsolete. The change of name to ?Romance? was also better suited to its songlike nature. After its first performance in November 1894 the piece rapidly became popular and is a well-loved encore piece atconcerts today. This ?Romance? continues the Henle Urtext series of short pieces for cello by Fauré for which we have been able to engage David Geringas to add the performance markings.

Charles-Joseph Lebouc organised the première of this work and also played the cello part. With the composer's permission he then adapted this sonorous romance accompanied by two pianos in the original for Violoncello and onePiano.Henle are presenting the first ever Urtext edition of this popular cello work. The second Piano part is reproduced in small print thus permitting a comparison of the two versions. Two Cello parts are provided onewith markings and one without.

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

Peu de gens savent que Franz Liszt organisé certaines de ses pièces pour piano pour le violoncelle, avec accompagnement de piano, et cette version de l'oeuvre apparu dans d'impression pendant la durée de vie du maestro. Árpád Pejtsik sélectionné deux de ces volumes pour cette compilation d'jubilé marque de Liszt: Elégies I et II Les autres compositions de Liszt qui apparaissent dans la collection ont été également à l'origine pour des oeuvres pour piano: l'Ave Maria et Cantique d'amour (des pièces de la Harmonies poétiques et religieuses de cycle) ont été transcrites par un élève de Liszt, Robert Pflughaupt, la version pour violoncelle, transposée en sol majeur, de la Consolation E Major est par Jules de Swert, violoncelliste solo à l'orchestre de Weimar de ces jours, celle de l'Angélus (le morceau d'ouverture dans le tome 3 du cycle intitulé Années de Pèlerinage) est par Lothar Windsperger, un compositeur qui vivait Deutsch au tournant du siècle 19ème-20ème. / Violoncelle Et Piano

En 1796, Beethoven s'est rendu à Prague, où il a rencontré le Comtesse Joséphine de ClaryAldringen qui jouait de la mandoline. Pour elle, il a écrit plusieurs oeuvres pour mandoline et piano, dont quatre sont encore existants et ont été organisés par Julius Berger pour violoncelle et piano. Ces oeuvres élégantes ne sont guère brille gemmes. Ecrit dans un mouvement dans un premier temps, la 'Sonatine' dans la clé de C tragique mineur avec un vive la section C majeur dans le milieu est suivie d'une merveilleuse 'Adagio ma non troppo' de la profondeur religieuse. / Violoncelle Et Piano / niveau : Facile / Intermédiaire / Partition

La musique de Aaron Copland est typiquement et évidente américaine. Les efforts inlassables de Copland pour s'assurer que ses oeuvres parlerait pour le citoyen moyen, aussi bien quant à ses collègues artistes fait de lui une des plus honorés culturel figures dans l'histoire des Etats-Unis. Parmi les innombrables prix adn honneurs, Copland a reçu le prix Pulitzer et la médaille présidentielle de la liberté. Cette passionnante série d'arrangements offre solistes la possibilité de profiter de certaines des réalisations musicales dans l'établissement d'un idiome typiquement américain d'avant-garde de Copland. / Violoncelle Et Piano