Easy to follow structured material to teach pupils whatever their age 4th position and the process of shifting between 1st and 4th positions.Complete with Cello part pull-out piano accompaniment and CD. Easy to follow structured material to teach pupils whatever their age 4th position and the process of shifting between 1st and 4th positions. These cello tunes have fairly easy but effective piano accompaniments.

15 Original Blues Jazz and Swing Pieces for Cello with Piano or CD backing tracks. The Cello part on the CD was recorded by Janet Smith.

Six pieces in varied jazz styles with easy piano accompaniment. A Syncopation Celebration for the young cello player. Grade: 3-5

'Ruht Wohl' is the final Chorus from the St. John Passion and takes the form of a Da Capo Aria with opening ritornello.This beautiful music cri de coeur for the human heart and spirit comes at a dark point in the Passion story yet there is constant play of light and colour hinting at the hope and renewal of Easter. Sweeping melodic lines are a gift for cello and the arrangement retains all counterpoint dramatic episode formal symmetry of the original. Technically accessible to Grade 6 & 7 students 'Ruht Wohl' makes an impressive concert item for Grade 8 and above.

CELLOWISE is an exciting new collection of arrangements from the popular classics. The standard is from Grade 3 upwards and included are Bach Badinerie Handel Sarabande Haydn Gipsy Rondo Gossec Gavotte and Tambourin Brahms Hungarian Dance and other favourites with attached CD of top quality performances making a pleasant and varied recital programme both to listen to and of course to play. Cellowise is featured on the 2014 Bauhinia Cup String Competition in Hong Kong and is on the current syllabuses of Trinity College London the Musik-PrüfungsKommission in Vienna and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin 2015-2018.FOOTNOTE TO CONTENTSOriginally a folk-dance from Medieval Spain the Sarabande became the spiritual centre-point of the 18th. Century dance suite and well-known to cellists through the Bach Suites.The Badinerie is a musical haiku stunning in its precision and economy of means and like a poem condenses much meaning and expression into few words.Sir Yehudi Menuhin once called the 'Erbarme Dich' solo the most beautiful piece of music ever written for the violin. This poignant duet for voice and obligato is about remorse betrayal and the universal theme of suffering. It is one of the centre-pieces of the St. Matthew Passion and is sung after Peter has denied Christ betraying him to the authorities and to his Crucifixion.Gavotte and Tambourin. These two Dances reflect the political opposites of the French Revolution - one a popular dance for partying and celebration the other more courtly and considered a favourite of Marie Antoinette.Rondo all'Ongarese and Hungarian Dance.Hungarian Folk music is fiery and impassioned with virtuoso techniques of embellishment and improvisation. Haydn and Brahms incorporated these elements into Classical forms.Like other Romantic and early-Romantic composers (Mendelssohn and Schubert) Brahms was attracted to Scotland as a wild and beautiful country of myth and