A practice guide for the modern cellist-A Grand Tour of Cello Technique is a thought-provoking practice guide enabling cellists at all levels to develop their own style through an exploration of different ways of fingering and bowing. The book not only helps cellists improve their playing but also promotes an understanding of musical art through nine stimulating chapters.With a particular emphasis on music of the 20th and 21st centuries and its connections with earlier music Fred Sherry takes the reader on a voyage of discovery of the art and science of cello technique informed by music ranging from Bach all the way through to Berio.Fred Sherry has introduced audiences on fivecontinents and all fifty United States to the music of our time for more than five decades. He has had close working relationships with Charles Wuorinen Lukas Foss Oliver Knussen Elliott Carter Milton Babbitt Toru Takemitsu Chick Corea Pierre Boulez Mario Davidovsky and others whose works he has premiered and recorded. He has been soloist and ?sideman? on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings; his discography ranges from Schütz Bach Mozart Beethoven and Brahms through Schoenberg and Stravinsky to the 20th and 21st century works written for him. He is a member of the cello faculty of The Juilliard School the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music.

This volume contains all Fauré’s single-movement cello pieces two of them published here for the first time. Also included as an appendix is a little-known sight-reading etude for two cellos.

Born in Paris in 1749 Jean Louis Duport Cellist and composer also known as ‘le jeune’ – to distinguish him from his elder brother Jean Pierre (1741–1818) called ‘l’ainé’ – is today regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the development and evolution of Cello technique. This work contains 21 of 'Le Jeune's' most popular works and studies.

Etudes - Sight-reading sont une des compétences plus importants encore négligées pour tout musicien et une composante importante du Conseil associés et autres examens de la musique. (Piano accompagnements par Anita Hew-tt-Jones) / Violoncelle