Easy Solo Cello and Piano-A collection of 12 traditional carols for easy cello (Grade 2) and piano accompaniment from master arranger Bruce Healey. This group of delightful arrangements will become your most valuable resource of holiday music for years tocome. Each carol is given a fresh creative treatment yet is expertly arranged with younger players in mind. Songs include: Away in a Manger ? We Wish You a Merry Christmas ? Deck the Halls ? Ding Dong Merrily onHigh ? God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen ? Greensleeves ? O Come All Ye Faithful ? Chanukah Oy Chanukah ? O Holy Night ? Pat-A-Pan ? Silent Night ? Three Holiday Songs (Medley including TheDreydl Song Jingle Bells and Joy to the World).Also available for:00841986 Solo Violin and Piano 00842194 Solo Viola and Piano 04490404 String Quartet String Orchestra:? 04490308 Conductor Score ? 04490309 Violin 1 part ? 04490310 Violin 2 part ? 04490311 Violin 3 part (Viola T.C.) ? 04490312 Viola part ? 04490313Cello part ? 04490314 String Bass part ? 04490315 Piano ? 04490316 Opt. Harp ? 04490317 Opt. Percussion

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 Sonata In G For Cello And Piano was formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c.1698-1775) however scholars now attribute this piece to the French cellist and composer Martin Berteau (1709-71) one ofthe founders of the French cello tradition. The sonata for cello in G major seamlessly balances the higher register with the fundamental sonority of the cello elegantly demonstrating the natural sonic potential of the thumbposition. The solo cello part is also included on a separate insert.

12 Recital Pieces in First Position for Cello and Piano or Two Celli-Charming collections of easy pieces in first position. Each Cello part is supported by a Piano accompaniment for student performances. Alternately a second Cello part allows duo playing with the teacher during lessons. This early introduction to chamber music brings joy and satisfaction to the young cellist and teaches the student to hear the music as a whole. The two volumes are designed as companion publications to the Early Start on the Cello method. However they work equally well as a supplement to any other Cello method. A variety of rarely published works by well-known cellists and pedagogues such as Wilhelm Fitzenhagen HugoSchlemüller and August Nölck make these publications attractive to teachers and students. The Cello Recital Album Volume 1 can be used as a supplement to the Early Start on the Cello method Volumes 1 and 2 (BA 8996 and BA 8997). The 18 pieces in Volume 1 are structured to follow the same progression of finger patterns introduced in the Early Start method. This systematic progression helps the student to solidify the hand position and improve intonation. The basic bowing techniques do not require changes in bow speed or sounding point. The young performer can focus on a straight and beautifully placed bow that produces a pleasing and clear sound. The Cello Recital Album Volume 2 can be used as a supplement to the Early Start on the Cello method Volumes 2 and 3 (BA 8997 and BA 8998). The 12 pieces in Volume 2 are structured to follow the same progression of finger patterns introduced in the Early Start method Volumes 2 and 3. The later repertoire in this volume includes a careful introduction of downward and upward extensions.

Born into a family of bankers that had lived in Florence since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) studied under Pizzetti at the city’s Conservatoire. He soon became one of the leading members of the young Italian school which broke with the tyranny of bel canto to return to the instrumental tradition of the Italian masters from the Baroque era. In 1928 Amédée-Landély Hettich a vocal teacher in Paris asked Castelnuovo-Tedesco to write a vocalise for the Répertoire moderne de Vocalises-Études the publication of which he was supervising at Leduc. Castelnuovo-Tedesco’scontribution entitled Vocalise-Étude for Medium Voice became so popular that it was immediately transcribed several times over. The present adaptation for cello and piano was created with prior consent from the composer by the famous Catalan cellist Gaspar Cassadó in 1930. The works opens with a poignant lamento that grieves the tragic fate of the Jewish people; it is followed by a folk dance whose “brisk and stubborn” movement marks with panache an imperious refusal to yield to resignation. The composer adopted the same proactive stance himself when in 1939 fleeing Mussolini’s antisemitic laws he decided to emigrate to the United States a land of refuge to which he would remain faithful until his death some thirty years later.