Romance For Cello - The Gadfly Op. 97

(Au bord de l'eau & Aurore) arranged for Viola (or Cello) & Piano.

This is a fun tango for two Cellos (Cello duet).

This is a fun piece for two Violas playing the same part but with one player starting one bar after the other player. There are two separate printed parts plus a score with both parts. It is by Domenico Gabrielli an Italian composer and Cello virtuoso who was born in Bologna in1651. He became widely known as a Cello virtuoso and composer of Vocal music. He wrote 12 operas in the 1680s but he contracted an incurable disease and died in Bologna in July 1690.

Written in memory of Joan Dickson a loved and respected cellist and teacher who was a friend and colleague of the composer. The final phrases are played entirely as harmonics on the C string – this is because shortly before she died Joan Dickson wrote to Caroline Bosanquet that she did not understand harmonics and was glad that Caroline had written a book explaining them (now published by SJ Music: The Secret Life of Cello Strings U1996-3) .

Chamber Music Excerpts For Practice- Naughty bits - those tricky passages in chamber music that appear out of nowhere and which can trip you up when it was all going so well even for the violist! The 'naughty bit' might be a passage in a high position possibly in the treble clef a tricky rhythm some awkward and unexpected accidentals or a run of fast notes. But wouldn't life be better if you had had a chance to practise those passages in advance? So here's the solution: a volume of those awkward Viola passages from Beethoven and Mozart String Quartets for you to practise so that you can play them already prepared for those 'naughty bits'. SJ Music also publishes NaughtyBits for cellists from Beethoven's quartets (U1990-2) Haydn quartets (U1989-4) and from quintets sextets and octets from the classical repertoire (U1992-8) and for 2nd violinists from Beethoven quartets (one volume: U1991-2)

Duets Op. 19 Nos. 5-6

Concerto for two violins

This String Quartet has some technical difficulties particularly for the first violinist but the musical result is worth the effort and players familiar with Beethoven's quartets will enjoy playing it. It is one of three Hummel opus 30 quartets published by SJ Music. All three are classical in style and pleasurable to listen to and play and many would say that they have been unjustly neglected. Johann Nepomuk Hummel was a Hungarian pianist conductor and composer born in Pozsony (now Bratislava) in 1778. He died in Weimar in 1837. Mozart heard him play aged seven in Vienna and was so impressed that he offered him lessons and took him to live with him for the next two years.As an adult in Vienna he became good friends with Beethoven.

This is a String Quintet (a single slow movement lasting about seven minutes) with two Cellos with the added flexibility of a Clarinet part to replace the Viola part and a Double Bass part to replace one Cello part. It is lyrical and straightforward to play. Frank Martin was born in 1890 in Geneva Switzerland the youngest of ten children and died in his adopted country The Netherlands in 1974.

Brian Newbould completed this quartet movement in 1996. It is a straightforward single movement based on an autograph fragment of what was probably a complete Schubert quartet (A248 in the Library of the Gesell-schaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna). The fragment comprises a slow introduction followed by an Allegro.

These three String Quartets are part of six published in two volumes by SJ Music (the other volume of three quartets is Q2003-2). They are tuneful and straightforward to play. Maddelena Lombardini-Sirmen a violinist singer and composer was born in Venice in 1745 and was at one time a pupil of Tartini. Leopold Mozart mentioned hearing 'a beautifully written concerto' by her in a letter to his wife and son Wolfgang in 1778.

These very pleasant duets for Violin and Cello are but a tiny snapshot of the prodigious output of Robert Lindley . He was born in Rotherham UK in 1776 and died in London in 1855.

Metamorphosen

This Fantasy for clarinet and string quartet was written in 1921 only three years before Stanfords death in London in 1924. He was born in Dublin in 1852 and his musical career started while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge University when he was appointed organist at Trinity College and conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society. In 1882 aged 30 he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music where he taught composition for the rest of his life and where his pupils included rising composers whose fame went on to surpass his own such as Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Four years later he was also appointed Professor of Music at Cambridge University. Stanford’s second Fantasy(Q1996-7) and fifth string quartet (Q1998-1) are also published by SJ Music.This Fantasy for Clarinet and String Quartet was written in 1921 only three years before Stanford 's death in London in 1924. Stanford 's second Fantasy (Q1996-7) and fifth String Quartet (Q1998-1) are also published by SJ Music.

This String Quintet (with two Violas or three Violins) was composed in 1799. It is tuneful and straightforward and suitable for players who are not yet at the standard required to play the Mozart Dvorak or Brahms quintets with two Violas. This edition has the advantage of having a third Violin part included if two Viola players are not available. Johann Michael Haydn was the younger brother of his much more famous older brother Franz Joseph – commonly regarded as the 'father' of the classical String Quartet format.

The English Rose by Edward German and La Wally by Alfredo Catalani arranged by Sue Otty for Violoncello and Piano.

Romance For Cello - The Gadfly Op. 97

Sue Otty's arrangement for Violin and Piano of Romance from Dmitri Shostakovich's suite The Gadfly .

Score to Schubert 's String Trio (completed Newbould).