für Violoncello solo. Par JOST CHRISTIAN. Mon œuvre lautlos II pour violoncelle seul, comme son prédécesseur lautlos I, suit l'idée d'un dialogue intérieur entre le joueur et son instrument. Le joueur doit veiller à ce que les éléments fragmentaires se fondent harmonieusement, afin de communiquer un 'discours' fluide. Néanmoins, les sculptures sonores et rythmiques individuelles doivent avoir suffisamment d'espace pour permettre à la beauté de l'instrument de s'exprimer dans toutes ses nuances sonores, jusqu'au bruit. Christian Jost/ Répertoire / Violoncelle

For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould founding patron and commissioner and Meet the Composer project manager.It was first performed on 6thFebruary 2010 by Yuri Hooker (cello) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Micklethwate. Composer's Notes 'Popule Meus is a meditation on the Judaic and Christian text ?O my People whathave I done to you?? but itis also a Universalist contemplation of the wholesale rejection of God by modern man. However much manrejects God he cannot escape Him and indeed he is condemned to the supernatural by his deiformnature. InHindu terms he is the Absolute Ayam Atma Brahma (The Self is the Absolute).In this work the solo cello is the All-Compassionate One while the timpani represent man in his vain andpointless rejection. Although the solocello and strings and the timpani share the same material (four ideas aregradually revealed and they revolve four times during the piece) the timpani music is violent and becomesincreasingly frenzied and contracted while thecello and strings remain still and serene.So even in winning the Darkness loses and even in losing the Light wins. Passion Resurrection andRedemption; or in Hindu terms Atma (The Absolute) alone is real Maya (The Relative) ismerely illusion.'

This book contains a selection of 20 Christmas carols in easy arrangements for one or two cellos with optional second part. The accompanying CD contains all the carols arranged for two cellos with piano accompaniment. The piano accompaniments are also given as play-along tracks. Suitable for children as well as adults. Content: Away in a MangerHark! The Herald Angels SingIt Came upon the Midnight ClearOnce in Royal David's CityThe First NowellSilent Night!O Little Town of BethlehemO Christmas TreeO Come All Ye FaithfulSee Amid the Winter's SnowWhile Shepherds Watched their FlocksThe Holly and the IvyAngels from the Realms of GloryWe Three Kings of Orient AreGood ChristianMen RejoiceWe Wish You a Merry ChristmasGood King WenceslasGod Rest You Merry GentlemenPast Three O'ClockPatapan

Instrumental Play-Along-Features solo arrangements of 15 powerful songs from the Christian/gospel genre. The full-accompaniment play-along CD with tempo adjustment software lets solo instrumentalists sound just like the pros!

Easy Instrumental Play-Along Book with Online Audio Tracks-This volume in the Easy Instrumental Play-Along series contains 10 Christmas Carols carefully selected and arranged for first-year Cello players.Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available to download helping you to hear how the song should sound. Once you've mastered the notes download the backing tracks to play along with the band.This songbook includes the favourites Angels We Have Heard on High Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Jingle Bells Jolly Old St. Nicholas On Christmas Night Up on the Housetop and more.

Most compendiums of studies and exercises suffer the same fate as the infamous home-trainers: one sets out full of good intentions but after a few weeks of blood sweat and tears they are left to gather dust in a corner. Why? Any athlete prefers a proper cross-country run to a stint on the treadmill. If there is variety and a chance to make decisions all the senses become involved. May this set of studies be spared the fate of the exercise-machine; rather they should serve as the equivalent of a cross-country run with people feeling liberated ‘with-it’ and keen to set and achieve their own targets.