top of page

UNACCOMPANIED CELLO REPERTOIRE

Contemporary Cello Music | Unaccompanied Cello Works | Modern Cello Compositions | Solo Cello Repertoire | New Cello Music | Cello Pieces Solo | Contemporary Cello Solos | Original Cello Compositions | Solo Cello Music | Contemporary Solo Cello | Cello Solo Pieces | Modern Solo Cello Music | Unaccompanied Cello Pieces | Solo Cello Repertoire List | Contemporary Cello Sheet Music

FANTASY

for unaccompanied cello

Duration:
5 minutes
 
Instrumentation:   
cello solo
 
Year Composed:  
1998
 
Written For:            
Mickey Katz
​
Premiere Performance:
Boston, USA
10 May 2001
Mickey Katz

UNACCOMPANIED CELLO REPERTOIRE

Contemporary Cello Solo

Program Notes:

In Fantasy, the cello assumes the roles of both soloist and orchestra, exploring a rich palette of colors, roles, and textures.

LISTEN

Score of Fantasy for unaccompanied cello

VIDEO

FANTASY

Fantasy
for unaccompanied cello

Mickey Katz, cello
 

Selected Works for Solo Cello

  • Leila Adu – For Edna (solo cello with voice), 2016

  • Kati Agócs – Versprechen (Promise) (solo cello), 2004

  • Eleanor Alberga – Monograph for Violoncello (solo cello), 2020

  • Franghiz Ali-Zadeh – Oyan! (solo cello), 2005

  • Malcolm Arnold – Fantasy for Cello (solo cello), 1987

  • Lera Auerbach – Sonata for Solo Violoncello, Op. 72 (solo cello), 2003

  • Arnold Bax – Rhapsodic Ballad (solo cello), 1939

  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIV (solo cello), 2002

  • Ernest Bloch – Suite No. 1 (solo cello), 1956

  • Ernest Bloch – Suite No. 2 (solo cello), 1956

  • Ernest Bloch – Suite No. 3 (solo cello), 1957

  • Benjamin Britten – Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello, Op. 72 (solo cello), 1964

  • Benjamin Britten – Suite No. 2 for Solo Cello, Op. 80 (solo cello), 1967

  • Benjamin Britten – Suite No. 3 for Solo Cello, Op. 87 (solo cello), 1971

  • Elliott Carter – Figment (solo cello), 1994

  • Andrea Casarrubios – SEVEN (solo cello), 2020

  • Gaspar Cassadó – Suite for Solo Cello (solo cello), 1926

  • George Crumb – Sonata for Solo Cello (solo cello), 1955

  • Philip Glass – Orbit (solo cello), early 21st century

  • Philip Glass – Songs and Poems for Solo Cello (solo cello), early 21st century

  • Alberto Ginastera – Puneña No. 2, Op. 45 (solo cello), 1976

  • Michael Gordon – Industry (solo cello), 1993

  • Osvaldo Golijov – Omaramor (solo cello), 1991

  • Gérard Grisey – Stèle (solo cello), 1995

  • Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 25 No. 3 (solo cello), 1923

  • Bertold Hummel – Fantasia II, In Memoriam Pablo Casals, Op. 97a (solo cello), 1993

  • Zoltán Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 (solo cello), 1915

  • György Kurtág – In memoriam György Aczél (solo cello), c. late 20th century

  • György Kurtág – Pilinszky János: Gérard de Nerval (solo cello), c. late 20th century

  • Helmut Lachenmann – Pression (solo cello), 1969

  • Tania León – Four Pieces for Solo Cello (solo cello), 1981

  • György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Cello (solo cello), 1948–1953

  • Krzysztof Penderecki – Capriccio per Siegfried Palm (solo cello), 1968

  • Krzysztof Penderecki – Per Slava (solo cello), 1986

  • Gity Razaz – Shadow Lines (solo cello), 21st century

  • Miklós Rózsa – Toccata capricciosa (solo cello), c. mid–20th century

  • Kaija Saariaho – Sept Papillons (solo cello), 2000

  • Kaija Saariaho – Spins and Spells (solo cello), 1997

  • Aulis Sallinen – Elegy for Sebastian Knight (solo cello), 1964

  • Bright Sheng – Seven Tunes Heard in China (solo cello), 1995

  • William Walton – Passacaglia for Solo Cello (solo cello), 1979

  • Mieczysław Weinberg – Sonata for Solo Cello No. 1, Op. 72 (solo cello), 1960

  • Mieczysław Weinberg – 24 Preludes, Op. 100 (solo cello), 1969

  • Rain Worthington – Resolves (solo cello), 21st century

  • Eugène Ysaÿe – Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 28 (solo cello), 1924

bottom of page