The twelve Capricci op. 25 by the cello virtuoso and composer Alfredo Piatti, who performed with the likes of Liszt and Mendelssohn Bartholdy, are a must for all advanced cello players. Sir Yehudi Menuhin compared them to the Cello Suites by J. S. Bach, referring to these two works as the 'Old and New Testament? of cello literature. Our Urtext edition of the Capricci (HN 746) - the first ever of its kind - is now available as a practical study edition and should be on every cellist's shelves! And for those who wish to put the 'Old Testament? alongside it, the Bach Suites can also be found in our catalogue (HN 9666). / Violoncelle

The 21 little performance pieces in The Really Easy Cello Book have been written and selected with beginners in mind. Despite the technical limitations this imposes, there is plenty of scope for musical interest! The pieces are arranged progressively and the piano accompaniments have been kept as simple as possible.  / Instrumental Music / Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

Par TAILLEFERRE GERMAINE. / classique / Date parution : 2002-07-11/ Répertoire / Violon, Violoncelle et Piano

Par BARGIELSKI ZBIGNIEW . After the first performance of my Fourth Quartet, in Salzburg in 1997, the artists of the excellent Hugo Wolf Quartett approached me with the appealing proposition that I write a new quartet. Rather problematic, however, proved to be the musicians’ delicate suggestion that I invest the work with elements of a more pungent expression and elements of folklore – ideally Polish. That suggestion meant that I did not immediately come to a decision, since folklore had not been (with the exception of a few works for accordion) the object of my interest. However, in defiance of my aesthetic outlook at that time, I decided to take up this interesting invitation and tackle what was for me a difficult problem. Ultimately, I found a way out of this rather ambiguous situation by employing a sort of dodge: I gave the new work a title. In a way, ‘The time that has passed’ substantiates the current to which I referred while writing this composition. The title and the subtitles of the work’s movements, which sound quite exotic in our day and age (there are as many as nine movements), justify the curious marriage between the somewhat nostalgic past and a present that has not yet been particularly well ‘assimilated’. I hope that these feuilles d’album will discharge their ‘toning’ function well. - Zbigniew Bargielski/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

20 Easy to Intermediate Pieces from four Centuries. Par NEUMANN EVA-MARIA (Arr.). Making music in a quartet uniquely nurtures young string players’ musical development, ensemble playing, listening to each other, and intonation. So, what could be more obvious than introducing the scoring of this genre, often referred to as chamber music’s supreme discipline, as early as possible. Indeed, composers have all along advised the classical string quartet’s outstanding compositions, but they are hardly easy to play for beginners. Here, with the present collection, is where Eva-Maria Neumann comes in. The two volumes include A total of 20 easy to intermediate arrangements of pieces from Bach to Bartók, together with specifically composed ones in string-quartet friendly keys - Reading scores and individual parts - additionally, individual part for violin III instead of viola - Tips on warming up, intonation, bowing, fingering, tempos, dynamics, and playing musically - Specific instructions for the individual pieces - Lists of supplementary original literature The pieces are also effective as scored for chorus./ Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes

Par KOLBUSZ ALEKSANDRA. Long before writing Passalega, I harboured the idea of creating some form of organically homogeneous chain of musical tensions evolving ever more distinctly into a musical utterance, although still indeterminate in terms of pitch. The tissues forming the chain of those tensions were of relatively simple design, yet in spite of this ? or perhaps because of it ? they were incredibly well suited to generating the expressive narrative that accompanied me throughout that entire pre-composition period. After recognising the character of the musical potential in that material, I considered it to be similar to Baroque rhetoric in terms of the refined clarity and smoothness of the gestures. Inspired by this, I sought to articulate this material in the fullest possible way by tracing a chain of swelling tensions, referring to a homogeneously polyphonic string quartet. / Date parution : 2022-12-12/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Striages de lumière résulte d'une commande de Philippe Bary pour le Festival de Conques. Les trois pièces évoquent les vitraux que Soulages a imaginés pour l'Abbaye et la lumière si particulière qu'ils créent sous ces voûtes, toute en stries. Chaque morceau se nourrit de la matière musicale et spirituelle d'un choral de Bach unissant métaphoriquement, à différents moments de la journée, la lumière et le Christ. On peut ainsi imaginer trois moments de méditation d'un pénitent lors d'une étape dans ce haut lieu du pèlerinage de Compostelle. / Violoncelle Et Piano

Dvorák's 'Trio in B-flat major? op. 21, the first of his four works for violin, violoncello and piano, was composed in 1875 and premiered two years later.This edition presents the musical text from Volume IV/9 of the 'Complete Edition of the Works of Antonín Dvorák?. The violoncello part has been newly engraved and the sections which were written in treble clef have been transferred to tenor clef.In his Foreword, Dvorák authority David R. Beveridge vividly describes the work's genesis and reception on the basis of the latest research findings.- Standard work from the chamber music repertoire- Newly engraved violoncello part- New Foreword by David R. Beveridge (Eng/Cz/Ger) / Violon, Violoncelle Et Piano

Par BRYARS GAVIN. “Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as the original version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which finds its way into the quartet comes from my work with groups from the world of early music, particularly from the experience of writing for a consort of viols …. In several places I ask for little or no vibrato from the strings, occasionally preferring open strings and natural harmonics to stopped notes.”/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Ce deuxième volume de Frottole regroupe les premiers 23 unica à 4 voix d'un manuscrit italien de 1502 conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Il s'agit à l'origine de pièces vocales religieuses ou profanes. Les textes étant rédigés en italien ancien - probablement un idiome de la région de Mantoue ou Ferrare, où résidait le copiste Lodovico Milliare - il nous a malheureusement été impossible de les reconstituer. Néanmoins, et comme cela était implicitement admis à cette époque, les pièces présentées sont tout à fait adaptées au jeu instrumental. / Niveau : Facile / renaissance / Recueil / Dessus, Alto, Ténor et Basse de Viole

Commande de Philippe Vilin.
Création du 6 mars 2018, chez Philippe Vilin, par Gustav VILLEGAS (flûte), Guillaume CHILEMME (violon), Léa HENNINO (alto) et Victor JULIEN-LAFERRIÈRE (violoncelle). / Partitions classique / Ensemble et orchestre / Musique de chambre / BILLAUDOT

Composer : Busoni, FerruccioInstrumentation : Vc,KlavEdition : UrtextEditor : Draheim, Joachim

Mespha ? en grec jusqu'à ? pose cette question essentielle de chaque existence. Le violoncelle, avec sa tessiture et son timbre si proches de la voix humaine, s'imposait pour effectuer ce voyage intérieur. Et pour symboliser le retour lancinant mais avec un état d'âme toujours différent de cette question, les trois pièces utilisent exactement le même matériau sonore. / Violoncelle