For use in lessons or for your first concert performance - Easy Concert Pieces for Cello and Piano contains easy and well-known solo pieces from the Renaissance to the modern era, carefully selected according to technical and musical demands: Volume 1 very easy (1st position), Volume 2 easy (1st and half position), Volume 3 easy to intermediate (1st to 4th position). Besides original compositions by Bréval, de Fesch, Reinagle or Gretchaninoff there are readily playable arrangements of classical masterpieces and modern compositions from the world of pop, jazz, spirituals, bossa nova and tango. Recordings and backing tracks for all the pieces are included on the accompanying CD. / Violoncelle Et Piano

After Colonna was expertly composed in 2001 by Sadie Harrison. First performed at Hampstead Town hall in March 2001 by Miriam Lowbury and David Carhart. AfterColonna later featured on Harrison’s 2002 album No Title Required.Australian born freelance composer and performe Sadie Harrison’s unique fusion of elements fromindigenous Lithuanian music and poetry with her own modernist often abrasive style have led her to be compared with Bartok but with her own warmth and grandeur. Since 2012 Harrison has been working alongside a long list of well accomplished musicians; Paul Carey Peter Sheppard Skaerved Sergej Okrushko Alex South Duncan Honeybourne are among many who have had the privilege to work with Harrison sofar. Performances of Harrison's works have been given across the world by Lontano London Chamber Symphony Music Projects/ London Ixion Okeanos Bournemouth Sinfonietta Kokoro and the St. Christopherus ChamberOrchestra and many others.

Suite pour violoncelle et piano. Par LAKS SIMON. Simon Laks (1901-1983), who moved from Warsaw to Paris in 1926 at the age of 25, belonged to the large group of composers from Central and Eastern European countries who went down in 20th-century music history as the „École de Paris“. Slavic temperament amalgamated in their music with French esprit, the folklore of their native countries combined with the stylistic elements of neoclassicism and jazz typical of the time. As a member of the „Association of Young Polish Musicians“, Laks quickly made his way into French musical life. However, his career was ended with the beginning of World War 2 due to the collaboration of the Vichy government with Nazi Germany. Internment in 1941 was followed by deportation to Auschwitz in 1942. Laks survived the Shoah as a member and later leader of a camp band in Birkenau, which he testified to in his moving book Music in Auschwitz. After the traumatic experiences, Laks did not return to regular compositional activity until the 1960s, producing an opera, songs, and chamber music works, some of which were awarded important composition prizes. At the peak of this optimistic creative phase, he composed incidental music for Peretz Hirschbein's famous Yiddish comedy Dem Schmids Techter (The Blacksmith's Daughters), which premiered in New York in 1918, for a new production of the play at the Théâtre de l’Entrepôt in Paris. Along with Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes and Shostakovich's cycle From Yiddish (Jewish) Folk Poetry, it is one of the most significant 20th-century explorations of art music with Jewish folklore – homage to a culture irreparably destroyed. From the original score, Holger Groschopp compiled two suites, for violoncello and piano and piano solo, that capture the essence of Lak‘s enchanting drama music. The premiere recording of the suites with Holger Groschopp and Adele Bitter was awarded the Opus Klassik 2023 in the category Editorial Achievement of the Year. . / Date parution : 2024-01-06/ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

The 21 little performance pieces in The Really Easy Cello Book have been written and selected with beginners in mind. Despite the technical limitations this imposes, there is plenty of scope for musical interest! The pieces are arranged progressively and the piano accompaniments have been kept as simple as possible.  / Instrumental Music / Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns endowed the music world with a multitude of masterpieces for violoncello including concertos sonatas and miniatures such as The Swan and the Allegro appassionato Op.43.This first publication of the Sonata in D major is based on Bärenreiter?s Camille Saint-Saëns ?uvres instrumentales complètes. Although we know from correspondence that two complete autographs existed only an incomplete autograph source containing the 1st movement and part of the 2nd movement which breaks off have come down to us. In his final work for violoncello Saint-Saëns juxtaposes highly rhythmical episodes with more poetic ones. These contrasts arereinforced by bold shifts of harmonic colouring and a highly inventive thematic development.These movements are destined to become standards for cellists.First ever Urtext edition of this incomplete work based on Camille Saint-Saëns ?uvres instrumentales complètesInformative Introduction (Fr/Eng/Ger)