Laurence Lesser has combined Bach's version of the Fifth Cello Suite for lute with the Anna Magdalena Bach edition for a completely new take on a familiar piece for cello. New ornamentation, fuller harmonies and a more challenging technical undertaking is sure to give any cellist a broader understanding of what is implicit in the relatively spare cello version.(Read more...)
While Monti composed the Czardas originally for violin or mandolin, it lies beautifully on the cello. This rhapsodic piece utilizes advanced techniques of flying spiccato, false harmonics, and double stops.(Read more...)
Dominik Wagner, scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter foundation and prize winner of the ECHO Classic award, has composed a cadenza for Serge Koussevitzky's Double Bass Concerto, Op.3.(Read more...)
Schubert's Marche Militaire was always one of my favorite encores on the many tours I went with my cello ensemble. At the beginning we used my cello quartet version (published by International Music Company), simply doubling the parts. Later I made this arrangement for octet, elaborating many new possibilities on how to enhance the sound and festive character of cello choir. We were overjoyed performing this music and overwhelmed with reactions of audiences. One might smilingly say that the famous Schubert's quote “There is no such thing as happy music” definitely does not comply with this Marche.(Read more...)
In the summer of 1993 I had the idea to transcribe Rachmaninoff's Prelude in g minor. I already knew the fantastic original version as performed by Alexis Weissenberg, Sviatoslav Richter or the master himself on Ampico Piano-roll. I was fascinated by that masterpiece and set about to bring it to one left hand and a bow with the incredible virtuosic playing of Ruggiero Ricci always in my mind.(Read more...)