Par FAURE GABRIEL. Immediately after finishing his second Violin Sonata op. 108, Fauré started work on a sonata for Cello and Piano in early 1917, thus realising a long-conceived plan. In their predisposition and attitude, both works are very closely related. In the Cello sonata, a sombre, dramatic opening movement is also followed by a calm, relaxed slow middle movement and a graceful finale. The…

All 5 sonatas for cello and piano, and 3 sets of variations on themes by Mozart and Handel. Basic works of the cello repertoire carefully reproduced from the authoritative complete-works edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel. Inexpensive source for studying 8 major works of the chamber music repertoire. Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1 (dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm II)
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for Violoncello and Piano-Camille Saint-Saëns' Sonata For Violoncello And Piano No. 2 In F Op. 123. Henle urtext edition with marked and unmarked string part. After Camille Saint-Saëns' firstCello sonata of 1872 (HN1057) gained fast popularity the publisher requested a second sonata for this scoring. It was only in March 1905 in the mild climate of Algeria that Saint-Saëns finally relented andc…

Duet for Two Cellos in Bb-Beethoven's sonata for violoncello is a staple of the chamber repertoire Telemann's duet sonata is a feast of 18th-century music at its finest: Includes accompaniments for both primo and secondo parts. Includes complete printed music score on high-quality ivory paper including both primo and secondo parts for the Telemann Duet and a compact disc containing a complete p…

For Viola Da Gamba-This superbly produced volume brings together nine of Bach's most performed compositions: six Cello Suites and three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition.

André Previn is a German-American pianist conductor and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world today and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten GrammyAwards for his recordings (and one more for his Lifetime Achievement).Previn wrote Cello Sonata (also known as ?Sonata For Cello And Piano?) for Yo-Yo Ma and it was first performed by th…

Composed in 1948 the Cello Sonata or Sonata for Cello and Piano by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was dedicated to Pierre Fournier the French cellist. Its four movements mainly ternary are as listed below: - Allegro (Tempo di Marcia) - Cavatine - Ballabile - Finale Pierre Fournier partly helped Francis Poulenc to compose the Cello part as this latter was not a specialist of this instrument. …

Sonata in G Minor for Solo Cello was written in 1924 and scored in four movements: Quasi a Piacere Cantabile Sostenuto Recitativo Liberamente Allegro Con Moto Perpetuo. Apparently inspired bythe seminal Kodaly Sonata for the same instrument it is a challenging piece suitable for any aspiring virtuoso performer. Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946) was a British composer conductor and educ…

Avec ses sonates pour violoncelle et piano, Beethoven a jeté les bases d' un tout nouveau genre de musique de chambre qui a inspiré les compositeurs ultérieurs tels que Johannes Brahms et Richard Strauss , entre autres. L'étendue de ce qui a survécu des cinq oeuvres de Beethoven est tout à fait différent . Alors que tous les manuscrits originaux des deux sonates op tôt . 5 sont absents , matériel …

Unlike some of his other late works, Franck's Violin Sonata (HN 293), composed in 1886, was well-received by the public and critics from the very start. The beautiful arrangement for cello published in January 1888 distinguishes itself from the numerous other arrangements in that Franck expressly authorised it. The cellist Jules Delsart, who had heard a performance of the sonata in Paris in Decemb…

Benjamin Britten's Cello Sonata In C Op. 65 for Cello and Piano.

An Urtext Edition of Frederic Chopin's Cello Sonata In G Minor Op.65 as edited by Ewald Zimmermann. Piano fingering by Klaus Schilde and Cello fingering and bowing by Claus Kanngiesser.

I - Lento II - Imposante III - Andante Programme Note In my early television remembrance I recall a broadcast with Samuel Beckett one of the fathers of the absurd play and drama. At one time Beckett looked the viewer (the camera) in the eye and said:'What! - is the Word'. I have not since been able to forget it obviously having borrowed this ambiguous sentence as title for this short cello sona…

Bernhard Heinrich Romberg\'s Cello Sonata In E Minor Op.38 No.1 is part of the Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along Series and includes a CD of backing tracks and a full performance.