Sonata no. 2 in g minor op. 117 for Violoncello and Piano-In contrast to the first cello sonata (HN 1357) composed four years earlier this substantially more catchy and playful second sonata enjoyed great success with audiences and critics right from the start. Friend and associate Vincent d???Indy wrote to Faur? the day after the premiere in May 1922: I would like to tell you how much I am still charmed by your so beautiful sonata. In it I found what is seemingly forgotten these days: music.??? It therefore comes as no surprise that the sonata rapidly found its way into the concert repertoire where it maintains an uncontested position to this today. The duo David Geringas and Markus Bellheim provided fingerings.

Opus 101-German cellist Sebastian Lée (1805-1887) was prominent as a performer and pedagogue in both Germany and France. His methods have been published many times in various countries and continue to be used to this day The First Step of the Young Cellist being no exception. Lée enjoyed a successful career as a soloist with the Paris Opéra and as a Cello teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. His teaching styles displayed a variety of German and French influences. The First Step of the Young Cellist contains fifty short easy and progressive pieces with the accompaniment of a second Cello (theteacher). Beginning with semibreve studies Lée's study book progresses to triplet exercises. The First Step of the Young Cellist is essential to the progression of all aspiring beginners of the instrument.

Book 1. Par SEVCIK OTAKAR. Otakar ?evcík's op. 2 is a fundamental tutor for teaching the violin. It focuses on the elementary problems of right-hand technique which ?evcík practises in 4,000 variants of systematically organized exercises for all bowings. This famous tutor has remained in use to the present day and is equally valued by players of other string instruments. The distinguished cellist Tomá? Jamník has arranged the 'School of Bowing Technique? for the violoncello, taking into account its differences from the violin. He has transcribed individual exercises for the violoncello without neglecting ?evcík's original pedagogical aims. As a result, this edition differs fundamentally from the only known cello arrangement of this opus by Louis R. Feuillard./ Etude / Violoncelle

Par DOTZAUER JUSTUS JOHANN FRIEDRICH. Les études de Dotzauer font partie du répertoire standard des cours de violoncelle depuis des générations. Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (1783-1860) était l'un des plus importants violoncellistes et pédagogues de violoncelle du XIXe siècle et savait ce qui fait une bonne étude : elle doit se pencher spécifiquement sur un certain problème technique et en même temps ne pas être monotone, mais musicalement attrayante. Le violoncelliste du Gewandhaus de Leipzig et de la Hofkapelle de Dresde y est parvenu de manière exemplaire. Notre nouvelle édition des 18 études progressives op. 120 est fondée sur les sources originales et propose le texte original. Alors que les études de Dotzauer ne sont généralement disponibles aujourd'hui que dans des éditions sélectionnées, l'opus 120 est édité ici dans son intégralité, tel que le compositeur l'a conçu lui-même. Les notes d'étude et sur la pratique d'exécution (dynamique, vibrato, changements de position, ornementation, coup d'archets) recommandent la nouvelle édition comme édition de référence pour l?enseignement./ Etude / Violoncelle

Schule der Bogentechnik - École du mécanisme de l'archet-Part 6 of this excellent series covers: arpeggios on 4 strings variations in triplets variations in semiquavers and bowing styles.

Popper (1843 1913) was among the greatest cellists of all time and this set of etudes is universally acknowledged as being among the finest - and most challenging - ever composed. This edition newly engraved by Dmitry Yablonsky will help intermediate and advanced musicians improve important techniques. A must for serious cellists.