Repertoire Classics for Cello
23 Recital Pieces Cello and Piano Accompaniment. Compiled and Edited by Mary Ann Ramos
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano Accompaniment - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Cello

SKU: CF.BF75

23 Recital Pieces Cello and Piano Accompaniment. Compiled and Edited by Mary Ann Ramos. Composed by Alexander Glazunov, Antonin Dvorak, Camille Saint-Saens, Carl Bohm, Edward MacDowell, Ernest Bloch, Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, Frederic Chopin, Fritz Kreisler, Gabriel Faure, Georg Goltermann, Hugo Schlemueller, Johann Sebastian Bach, Vittorio Monti, and etc. Edited by Mary Ramos. Arranged by Mary Ramos. SWS. Back To School. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 48 pages. Carl Fischer Music #BF75. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.BF75).

ISBN 9780825890581. UPC: 798408090586. 9x12 inches.

Repertoire Classics for Cello is a comprehensive andprogressively graded collection of classic solos for cellowith piano accompaniment.The book contains a fine mix of transcriptions offamiliar classics along with solos written specificallyfor the cello. Many of the pieces in this collection areon state contest/festival required music lists and coverperformance levels from grade 2 through 4. There is awide variety of music from all style periods and by someof the greatest composers of all time.As an added bonus, included is a data CD that containsMP3 audio files of the piano accompaniments to makepracticing more fun. The data CD also includes all ofthe piano accompaniment parts for all of the pieces inthe collection as printable PDF files. This way you canprint out only the piece that you are using this year foryour piano player. This innovative and unique packagingallows Carl Fischer Music the ability to present to youa large and useful collection of solo literature at a verygood price. It is a collection that you will use for manyyears to come.
In putting together this volume, my goal was to include beautiful, accessible pieceswhich are not always found in the existing cello compilations. As the music worldevolves more and more towards outreach concerts and community involvement, I amconstantly looking for short crowd-friendly pieces such as the ones included in this book.As a teacher, I find it useful that many of these works are particularly well suited toisolate specific principles of cello technique. Kreisler’s Schön Rosmarin is an excellentstudy in up-bow staccato, and his Pavane can be used to practice trills and gracenotes. Squire’s At Twilight provides many opportunities to work on extensions, whileSchlemuller’s Cradle Song is great for teaching string crossings. Macdowell’s To a WildRose is a shifting exercise between first, second, third and fourth positions.It was a great pleasure to revisit some of my favorite childhood songs and present themto a modern generation. Each of these little pieces has a story rich in cello tradition,for they were all written by, written for, or arranged by cellists. For example, Fauréoriginally wrote his Sicilienne as a cello piece for William Henry Squire, himself acomposer whose works are among the most beloved in the cello repertoire. Years laterFauré recycled the melody in his incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande, but not manypeople know that this famous tune was originally written for cello.My hope is that this book will be as fun to play through as it was for me to put together.