13 songs from the musical: At the End of the Day • Bring Him Home • Castle on a Cloud • Do You Hear the People Sing? • Drink with Me (To Days Gone By) • Empty Chairs at Empty Tables • A Heart Full ofLove • I Dreamed a Dream • In My Life • A Little Fall of Rain • On My Own • Stars • Who Am I?.

Instrumental Play-Along. Here they come to save the day! This collection instrumentalists features 14 songs about your favorite superheroes from TV and the movies. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound then play along and sound like a pro! Songs include: The Avengers · Batman Theme · Captain America March · Elastigirl Is Back · Guardians Inferno · Iron Man · Theme from Spider Man · X-Men: Apocalypse - End Titles · and more.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Excelsus for solo Cello. 'Excelsus takes the form of a suite each movement being based on a passage from the Requiem mass text. Although I spent many hours refining my interpretation of the words the work is ultimately a more instinctive reaction to the evocative language of the excerpts. However my stance was always totally atheistic and this infiltrates everything from the mood through the disregard for the text’s order to the instrumentation (the use of a lone figure which I viewed as a musical equivalent to the ‘first person’ offending against the liturgical norms which areconcerned with people as a community). Musically the entire work is based on two themes one melodic (the Rex Tremendae or ‘King of Awful Majesty’ theme which is heard at the very opening) and one chordal (the Lux Aeternum (Light eternal) chords not revealed in their pure form until the pizzicato passage that concludes the suite). The order ofthe movements is as follows: Requiem Aeternum (Grant them eternal rest)Kyrie (Lord have mercy)Tuba Mirum (Hark the Trumpet)Sanctus (Holy holy)Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)Quid Sum Miser (What shall I a wretch say then?)' - Cheryl Frances-Hoad

This work was commissioned by Yutaka Fujishima and the Xebec Hall. It was first performed by Ryoichi Fujimori in Mito Japan on 10th November 1996. Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds. The following equipment is required: 1full-size CD player (not a portable) with a clearly readable time counter display set next to the cellist 1 microphone for the cello 1 digital reverb 1 mixing desk 1 stereo amplifier at least 2 high qualityloudspeakers.Quoting Karen Tanaka: The title comes from the Song of Solomon of the Old Testament which is a beautiful song of love.I have attempted to project this sensual song of love onto the sound of cello and computer.My intention was to weave color and scent into the sound while blending the ancient story and today's technology. The sound of cello is consistently gentle and tender.CD Rom available separately for sale.

Virgil Thomson was and still is renowned for his musical 'portraits' of friends and famous personalities of the day. These four have been transcribed for Cello and Piano and include the poet Lise Deharme designer Max Kahn the great Pablo Picasso and Thomson's friend Flavie Alvarez de Toledo.

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ? ' for voices and ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Soli Deo Gloria and Kings Place, and first performed by the Hebrides Ensemble at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.The parent work sets the Resurrection narratives from St John's Gospel. Five instrumental solos for different instruments (theorbo, cello, clarinet, harp, horn) are reproduced unabridged. They serve as prologue and interludes at respective points of the work. / Violoncelle

Today the cello is usually considered a classical instrument but from the late 17th to early 19th centuries it was used in folk ensembles to provide low driving rhythms for dance tunes and to render haunting Scottish airs.Within the folk music revival of the past forty years there has been a small but dedicated movement to restore the unique richness of the cello to traditional music and Abby Newton has been on the forefront of that movement. Abbyhas been deeply involved with Scottish music ever since traveling to and performing in Scotland many times. The airs planxties and reels in this book come from traditional and contemporary sources including the 18th-centuryfiddler Neil Gow harper Turlough O'Carolan Daithi Sproule David Hornung Alasdair Fraser Ronnie Aimes and others. All 19 of the tunes are written for solo cello with chord symbols included on most tunes for an accompanyinginstrument. The text also includes the author's notes on the origin of each tune.