Original Version. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann?s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 ? a piece he actually called a ?Concertstück? ? removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer?s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków. This Full Score matches the separately available edition for Cello and Piano (EP 73488). Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann?s original 1850 manuscript Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions Critical Commentary Cello and piano edition available separately from Edition Peters: orchestral parts available for rental Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton Robert Schumann?s tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann?s original conception of the work ? not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never heard the piece performed. In an effort to promote a performance of the work, he gave the score to the cellist Robert Emil Bockmühl. Bockmühl made revisions that Schumann resisted, and the hoped-for performance never happened. Schumann?s health failed and he died aged just 46 in 1856. The Concerto, in an already substantially revised form, was premiered in 1860 but it was not given significant recognition until it was championed by Pablo Casals in the 20th century by which time (and since) the text for the work had accreted additions and alterations from generations of soloists. Now Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London has returned to the original 1850 manuscript of the work, which is in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków, to reveal Schumann?s original thoughts for the first time in a modern Urtext edition. The edition reflects Schumann?s original conception of the work as a Concertstück and restores Schumann?s musical text, free of posthumous interventions. ?My ultimate wish,? says the editor, ?is to give performers both access to, and confidence that they are playing from, an edition which is a true representation of the piece in its original form, no matter how much more difficult this might be. I found that incorporating the changes enabled the piece to take on a completely different character ? one that is lighter and happier, even ?cheerful?, as Schumann himself described the work.'

Per Nørgård's Cantica Concertante for Violoncello Solo and Chamber Orchestra (2012). Based on CANTICA for cello and piano (1977). The present orchestral version was edited by Steve Ferrein in collaboration with the composer. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk

Couperin's Concert Pieces for Cello and String Quartet accompaniment is an exciting addition to the string repertoire for its slightly unusual instrumentation. François Couperin (1668-1733) is often nicknamed 'Couperin the Great' to distinguish him from other members of the musical family. Concert Piecesis made up of five movements; 1) Prelude 2) Sicilienne 3) The Trumpet 4) The Complaint and 5) Devil's Air. Couperin's moods are expressed through choices of keys adventurous harmonies and discords. With a significant amount of variation and inspiration Concert Pieces isessential to the repertoire of aspiring advanced String Quartets and solo cellists.

This is one of the best Cello concertos of the twentieth century and readily communicates the Bohuslav Martinu strong feelings for his homeland. Written over the Christmas and New year period of 1944-45 in New York it is full ofhis reactions to that last dramatic winter of the war and the desire to go home. It is an expansive work over 35 minutes in length in the standard three movements. Typically for Martinu the first movement is inModerato tempo. The opening gesture is highly characteristic: A pulsing rhythm establishes itself in the orchestra and a striving rising theme with a contradictory rhythm contends with it. The second movement Andante pocomoderato has a general pulse that is not much slower than that of the first. It is episodic with a faster central section and then a truly magical and heartfelt treatment of the main subject in which Martinu expresses hislonging for home. The final movement Allegro is a driving energetic conclusion with a solo cadenza that breaks the ongoing rhythm and provides a touching moment of contemplation before the joyous conclusion. This editioncontains a Piano reduction of the Orchestral part for rehearsal purposes.

Sans raison valable, cinq concertos violoncelles du Pleyel sont éclipsées par les concertos de ses contemporains, notamment par celles de Joseph Haydn. Contributions de Pleyel très originales au genre, cependant, qui sont parmi ses oeuvres les plus intéressantes, captivate une fois de plus l'auditeur par le biais du compositeur inventivité et charmant noblesse musical. Le violoncelliste hongrois Peter Szabó, qui a présenté le célèbre premier enregistrement des concertos de cinq tous sur l'étiquette de Hungaroton en 2003, a édité les concertos de l'édition originale de Simrock, fournissant des éditions critiques avec ses propres cadences. Les scores et le matériel de performance sont disponibles à la location. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

Cinq concertos violoncelles du Pleyel ont conduit à tort une existence ombre, comparée à des concertos de contemporains tels que Joseph Haydn. Avec ses contributions indépendantes dans le genre, qui appartient à ses oeuvres intellectuellement plus stimulant, Pleyel a encore une fois impressionne par son imagination et son élégance musical. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

C major-Concert for violoncello and orchestra. Urtext from: Joseph Haydn Werke G. Henle Verlag München

About Violoncello ConcertoUrtext der Haydn-Gesamtausgabe. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Sonja Gerlach. For Cello Solo oboe (2) bassoon ad lib. horn (2) strings. Score; Urtext Edition. Hob. VIIb:2. Duration 22'. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import). (BA4675) ISBN M006501915.

Après Altius (1999) pour violoncelle et 16 instruments et Huit à l'infini (2001) pour octuor de violoncelles et orchestre, Horizons réflexes est ma troisième oeuvre de nature concertante écrite pour le violoncelle.Au début de la composition de cette pièce, dédiée à Gary Hoffman et commandée par le festival Automne en Normandie, j'avais à l'esprit l'idée quasi picturale d'un paysage étrange, constitué de lignes se développant horizontalement et de verticalités presque régulières qui se rencontrent, se trouvent, se dérobent ou se métamorphosent.Non seulement le vers du poète Alexis Pelletier 'Un matin, je fus saisi par l'évidence des horizons réflexes' m'a donné l'idée du titre de la pièce, mais il m'a également permis de conceptualiser la plastique sonore que je souhaitais développer au long des six sections enchaînées que compte cette composition.Dans la plupart de mes oeuvres concertantes - et c'est de nouveau le cas dans Horizons reflexes, le soliste devient la 'voix supérieure' d'une matière sonore en mouvement prolongée par un orchestre 'résonateur' qui sait aussi se montrer éloquent. (...)Dominique Lemaître / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

David Popper (1843-1913), un élève de Julius Goltermann, n'était pas seulement un violoncelliste de concert a voyagé beaucoup et réussie. Comme beaucoup de ses collègues musiciens virtuoses, il quitte un certain nombre de compositions pour ses instruments pour la postérité, tels que la 'fantaisie sur l / Violoncelle Et Orchestre