for Cello and Chamber Orchestra (Cello/Piano)-John Joubert’s Concerto in Two Movements for Cello and Chamber Orchestra was first performed on Sunday 4th March 2012 in St Mary’s Church Shrewsbury by the Northern Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Berman with cellist Raphael Wallfisch.This edition is for Cello and Piano (reduction from the chamber orchestra score).Written for the composer's daughter Anna.

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

Arthur Bliss' Concerto For Violoncello. Reduction for Cello and Piano. This work was first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival on 24th June 1970 by Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten.

Composed in 1948 the Cello Sonata or Sonata for Cello and Piano by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was dedicated to Pierre Fournier the French cellist. Its four movements mainly ternary are as listed below: - Allegro (Tempo di Marcia) - Cavatine - Ballabile - Finale Pierre Fournier partly helped Francis Poulenc to compose the Cello part as this latter was not a specialist of this instrument. Francis Poulenc is French composer and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces Operas ('Dialogues des Carmélites') ballets ('Les Biches') as well as some orchestralworks.

?l?gie for Violoncello and Piano op. 24-Following the enthusiastic reception of his first Violin Sonata (HN980) it was clear to Faur? that he would continue to write chamber music. In 1880 he wrote a little piece for cello and piano that was intended as theslow movement for a sonata. However Faur? gave up the sonata project instead publishing the piece under the title ??l?gie. It was so successful that Faur? was urged by the publisher to write further pieces. Theconductor ??douard Colonne commissioned a version of the ??l?gie for orchestra in 1895 which was premi?red two years later. As usual our Urtext edition contains both a marked and an unmarked solo part.