SKU: FH.VC7

ISBN 978-1-55440-543-5.

This inaugural edition of the Cello Series offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring cellist. With an expansive representation of musical styles from all eras, this series addresses the need for a single collection of quality educational materials to foster musical development and instill appreciation of the richness and diversity of music written for cello. Supporting a balanced course of study, this series organizes repertoire into nine volumes from the Preparatory Level through Level 8. Each level offers music from a range of styles and compositional eras, including standard literature, new arrangements of familiar tunes, and music written for cellists, by cellists. These selections provide the flexibility to choose pedagogically appropriate material suited to each individual, and to motivate students to fully develop their musicianship and technique.
Level 7:
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture - Rossini, Gioachino
Carmen: Prelude to act 1 - Bizet, Georges
Coriolan Overture, op. 62 - Beethoven, Ludwig van
Symphony No. 94 (Surprise), Hob. I:94: I,IV - Haydn, Franz Joseph
Ruslan and Ludmilla: Overture - Glinka, Mikhail
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46: I,III,IV - Grieg, Edvard
Level 8:
Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: I - Mendelssohn, Felix
Symphony No. 8, op. 88: I,IV - Dvorak, Antonin
The Nutcracker, op. 71: Russian Dance, Waltz of the Flowers, Pas de deux - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished), D 759: I,II - Schubert, Franz
Die Zauberfloete, K 620: Overture - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Symphony No. 40, K 550: I,IV - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Level 9:
Symphony No. 9, op. 125: II,IV - Beethoven, Ludwig van
Symphony No. 8, op. 93: III - Beethoven, Ludwig van
Serenade for Strings, op. 22: III,IV,V - Dvorak, Antonin
Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 83: III - Brahms, Johannes
Serenade for Strings, op. 48: I,II,III,IV - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Symphony No. 4 (Italian), op. 90: I,IV - Mendelssohn, Felix
Symphony No. 3, op. 90: III,IV - Brahms, Johannes
Symphony No. 35 (Haffner), K 385: I,IV - Mozart, Wolfgang
Le nozze di Figaro, K 492: Overture - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Level 10:
Group 1:
Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), op. 36: Variation 12 - Elgar, Edvard
Dichter und Bauer: Overture - Suppe, Franz von
Messa da Requiem: III - Verdi, Giuseppe
Guillame Tell: Overture - Rossini, Gioachino
Group 2:
Symphonie fantastique: II,III,V - Berlioz, Hector
Symphony No. 4, op. 36: I,II,IV - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Symphony No. 5, op. 67: I,II,III - Beethoven, Ludwig van
Symphony No. 4, op. 98: I,II,III,IV - Brahms, Johannes
Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique), op. 74: I,II - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Symphony No. 2, op. 73: I,II,IV - Brahms, Johannes
Associate:
Group 1:
Symphony No. 5, op. 100: I,II,III,IV - Prokofiev, Sergei
La mer: I,II - Debussy, Claude
The Bartered Bride: Overture - Smetana, Bed_ich
Symphony No. 5, op. 47: I,II,III - Shostakovich, Dmitri
Group 2:
Matthaus-Passion, BWV: Komm, suesses Kreutz - Bach, Johann Sebastian
Don Juan, op. 20 - Strauss, Richard
Ein Heldenleben, op. 40 - Strauss, Richard
Verklaerte Nach1, op. 4 - Schoenberg, Arnold.

SKU: HL.14028929

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller, with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy, nostalgic, a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book, at its simplest, is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for all its musical material to become distorted, either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning', a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in, the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece, I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific, this change of heart doesn't really matter. ~ David Blake.