The latest volume of Chamber Music for Violoncellos contains four sacral works, two of which were arranged for cello quartet by the editor of the series, Árpád Pejtsik. Both Angelus!, Liszt's piano piece of ethereal beauty, and the Kyrie of Mozart's Requiem, an irresistibly surging four-part fugue, are magnificent when played with the immensely rich sound of the four cellos. The second part of the volume contains a pair of inspired works by two prominent cellists and composers of the 19th century: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Fitzenhagen's Consecration Hymn and Friedrich Grützmacher's Ave Maria. While an instrumental skill of at least intermediate level is required for playing the upper parts due to the use of higher positions, the lower parts can be performed by beginner cellists. The editor has assisted the appropriate interpretation of the works by providing the fingering and bowing. / 4 Violoncelles

Artiste: Arpad Pejtsik. The latest volume in this popular series expands the repertoire of intermediate violoncello pupils with some unusual transcriptions. This time the editor, Árpád Pejtsik, has arranged Ave Maria settings (one song and three choral works) for four cellos. The first is a classical music hit, Schubert's Ave Maria. Next is the transcription of a little-known piece from Liszt's vast output, an item from his 1879 choral work Rosario, followed by an arrangement of the first of Verdi's Quattro pezzi sacri, famous for being based on an ''enigmatic scale'' (scala enigmatica). The volume concludes with another evergreen, the Ave Maria from Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil. Rather than testing the players' virtuosity, these slow-moving, contemplative pieces serve more to improve intonation skills as well as a sense of form and proportion. The editor has added suggested fingerings and bowings in order to help with the music's appropriate interpretation. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Classique / Recueil / 4 Violoncelles

A work for four cellos based on J. S. Bach?s Suite n.5 for solo cello. It is part of the 'Transformation' series that attempts to transport Bach?s oeuvre into the modern era to convert Bach?s writing into that of today. The work is composed of four successively played parts. Though the sonority is completely different each part is closely related to Suite n.5.Part 1 Densité (density): each semiquaver from the beginning of the prelude is extended to form dense chords.Part 2 Chant (song): a new melodic line emerges from different transpositions of the Sarabande?s melodic lines.Part 3 Tempus fugit: fragments from the Courante pass quickly while the Gigue?s basic rhythmis repeated relentlessly.Part 4 Dans le temps qui s?étire (as time stretches): the Fugue subject from the second half of the Prelude appears about ten times bringing various developments.

Wer kennt es nicht, das Lied ?Guantanamera'? Auf eine Melodie des kubanischen Musikstils Guajira und einen Text des dortigen Nationalhelden José Martí zurückgehend, wurde sie von José Fernández Díaz in den 30er-Jahren als Refrain zu Improvisationen über aktuelle Tagesthemen benutzt. Pete Seeger griff das Martí-Original 1963 bei einem Konzert in der New Yorker Carnegie-Hall wieder auf - es wurde zu einer ?Hymne' der amerikanischen Gewerkschaftsbewegung. In unzähligen Versionen ist der Titel seitdem gesungen worden, bis hin zum Rudi-Völler-Schlachtgesang, der im Jahre 2002 in den Fußballstadien widerhallte. Die vorliegende Ausgabe gibt Gelegenheit, den Welthit nun mit Klaviertrio zu musizieren - viel Vergnügen! / 4 Violoncelles

for 4 violoncellos. Sommarie: 1) Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Hymn of the Cherubim 2) Gesualdo, Carlo: Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa 3) Kossovits József: Slow Hungarian Dance (1794) 4) De Swert, Jules: Elegy/ Répertoire / 2 Violoncelles ou Plus