If you enjoyed Volume 1, you'll love Volume 2. Here are 10 more great pieces arranged for pure solo cello - no piano required! This collection has more than 30 minutes of classical and patriotic songs ideally suited for formal recitals, wedding celebrations, and background music gigs.

These are not just lame copies of the melody line; they are all fully worked out arrangements designed to be as rich as possible and to highlight the cello. As a professional cellist, I originally arranged these pieces for my personal use, and I have performed every one of them in public.

These are fairly challenging pieces; I would compare their difficulty to Bach Cello Suite #2 on the easy side and Bruch Cello Concerto on the harder side. But with some practice you will have some amazing additions to your solo repertoire.

Each of the songs in this collection is also available separately, but buying the full volume saves you over 60%.

Volume 2 contains the following:
1. Bach Toccata in D Minor

2. Brahms Hungarian Dance #5
3. Bizet Carmen Medley
4. Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Introduction & Love Theme
5. Tchaikovsky Symphony #5, Finale (excerpt)
6. Debussy Clair de Lune
7. Sousa Washington Post March
8. Vieuxtemp Variations on "Yankee Doodle"
9. Meacham American Patrol
10. Smith The Star-Spangled Banner

Please check out the other two volumes in this series:
Pure Cello Volume 1: Ten Concert Pieces for Unaccompanied Cello (S0.853829)
Pure Cello Volume 3: Thirty Christmas Carols for Unaccompanied Cello (S0.853851)

Two traditional and lively Jewish songs, well-suited for weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, general performance, or just playing for fun with friends or by yourself! Specially arranged for solo cello, BY a cellist FOR cellists, including chords and drones idiomatic to the cello.

Merry Christmas and get your greenery here!
You'll find this a light, whimsical prelude for recital, Winter gathering, or church service. The melody passes back and forth between the four parts, so each of the cellists can shine!

Included in this medley are:

The Holly and the Ivy
Greensleeves
Sing We Noel Christmas (which is not green, but it horned its way into the arrangement anyhow)
Playtime is 3:40
Parts: Part 1 is written in bass, tenor, and treble clefs, Part 2 in bass and tenor clefs, Part 3 in bass and treble, and Part 4 is in bass with a phrase in tenor clef.
Keys: F, D minor
History: This piece was arranged to be played before a church service during the Advent season. It has since been played for parties, receptions, and recitals. You'll find this piece a refreshingly light addition to any playlist. I'd love to hear how you've chosen to use it.

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The studies by Friedrich August Kummer are perfect for music lessons, particularly because of their accompaniment of a second violoncello. They are characterized by a very systematic arrangement, cleverly introduce the circle of fifths and offer exercises at all levels of difficulty.

The studies originally come from the appendix to Kummer's Celloschule fur den ersten Unterricht Op. 60. In this new edition, they are for the first time published completely in two volumes as 92 progressive studies. The present edition is based on the first edition published in 1839 (Verlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig) and has essentially adopted the original fingerings and bowing indications. For better readability, the number of fingerings has been slightly reduced.

Volume 1 (ED 22371) is intended for beginner and intermediate lessons. Volume 2 (ED 22372) focusses on the musical performance of the advanced pupil.

Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879) was a pupil of Friedrich Dotzauer and Bernhard Romberg and later trained famous cellists like Julius Goltermann or Bernhard Cossmann.

Natalie Spehar is a genre-bending acoustic and electric cellist that has shared the stage with major artists including Disturbed, Cage the Elephant, 2 Cellos, Josh Groban, Michael Bublé, Sarah Brightman, Dessa, Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, Johnny Mathis, Michael Bolton, Il Volo, Charly Bliss, Japanese Breakfast, Amanda Palmer and the Trans Siberian Orchestra. She is also an active session musician, working most recently with RCA Records and Red Parade Music and composing and recording material for numerous film and theatre productions. Natalie's ALT-C "Alternative Cello" Workshop Series is available online worldwide. For more info, please visit www.nataliespehar.com.