Favourtie French Melodies-In creating these dozen arrangements I am unashamedly cherry-picking from a long and rich seam of French music. I feel confident that younger players and those relatively new to the cello will enjoy my selection. Forgive my tongue-in-cheek title for the book French Baguettelles (I'm half French so I don't feel too guilty!) for the music herein has more than a hint of garlic about it. Although there are certainly serious overtones to one or two pieces there is a healthy dollop of silliness to lighten the mood. Apart from Sur la Pont d'Avignon which was reportedly written in the 15th century Frère Jacques which was a popular 18th century song and Tambourin which wasin all probability also written in the 18th century (Gossec did however live well into the 19th century) all of the pieces come from composers who lived in the Romantic period. Ravel and Debussy were of course known for their impressionistic colours though for the most part it is the accompaniments which reveal this characteristic most fully. I have endeavoured to keep the piano parts playable by mere mortals conscious of the fact that cello teachers may not possess a virtuosic piano facility but may nevertheless wish to turn their hand to accompanying pupils for concerts festivals exams etc. Many of the pieces were originally written for the piano either in its solo capacity (Ravel's Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte Chabrier's Idylle Satie's Gymnopedie 1 Debussy's La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin) or in duet form (Fauré's Berceuse from 'Dolly Suite'). Three orchestral pieces Bizet's L'Arlésienne Offenbach's Can-Can and Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre lend a welcome dramatic overtone to the book while Franck's exquisite Panis Angelicus originally conceived as a choral piece rounds off the selection admirably. In the main it is the cello's capacity for lyricism that has steered my choice of music so really open up your sound and enjoy yourself with these ageless melodies.I wish you bonne chance!Baguette: a thin loaf of

A collection of six fabulous songs for Cello and Piano by Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. Although these are arrangements they were first published in 1896 by Simrock Brahm's publisher while the composer was still alive and so Brahms must have known of and accepted the arrangements. The notation of the old Simrock edition has been assimilated with that of the original vocal version especially with regard to the dynamics. Some of the cello's closing passages have been rendered more effective and fingering and phrasing have been modernised both technically and stylistically.

One of the most beautiful pieces of Romantic cello literature - edited and fingered by the well-known cellist Prof. Maria Kliegel.

Music Minus One Cello Deluxe 2-CD Set-We bring you on this MMO album two pieces from diverse ends of the repertoire: Boccherini's beautiful D-major concerto for violoncello with its Baroque themes and Bruch's famous 'Kol Nidrei' with its melding of late Romantic and traditional Hebrew melodies. A great album filled with music to test your abilities in technique and in interpretation. Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing a complete performance with soloist then a second version with the orchestral accompaniment minus you the soloist. Performed by Marcy Chanteaux violoncello Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Emil Kahn

Music Minus One Cello-New composer Ethan Winer's concerto is bursting with bold ideas and fresh orchestration the album also contains a chamber-music version of Schubert's Ave Maria and an energetic pop-orchestrated version of Saint-Saëns' Alegro Appassionata - this album presents an exciting synthesis of modern-day and Romantic-era compositional ideas. Includes complete printed music score on high-quality ivory paper including extensive performance notes by the composer and a compact disc containing a complete performance with soloist in digital stereo then performed again minus you the soloist. Performed by Steven Thomas violoncello Accompaniment: (orchestral accompaniment)

Having been the conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for many years Carl Reinecke was one of the most important figures among musicians in the second half of the 19th century. His three sonatas for Violoncello and Piano are of amazing musical quality which puts them right up with sonatas of Johannes Brahms. It is all the more surprising however that a noteworthy Urtext edition of these works did not exist up until now; cellists often had to fall back on copies of the first editions only a few of which were extant. This gap is now closed by the Wiener Urtext Edition - right in time for the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. Itencompasses all three sonatas in one volume thus adding three masterpieces of Romantic chamber music to the less than comprehensive repertoire of the 19th century for Violoncello and Piano.

Authoritative editions of Schumann's Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129; Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33; Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104.