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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR CELLO

This section presents diverse contemporary cello music, encompassing modern cello compositions for solo performance, unaccompanied cello music, cello and piano duets, and extensive cello chamber music. It highlights new and innovative repertoire from the 20th century onwards, including works by Lior Navok.

UNACCOMPANIED CELLO


Fantasy

5' | cello solo

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This section presents contemporary unaccompanied cello music, featuring diverse modern cello solos and new solo cello pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, experimental, and avant-garde solo cello compositions, showcasing progressive repertoire, including works by Lior Navok.

CELLO CHAMBER MUSIC


Fluctuations

10' | cello and piano 

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This section explores contemporary cello chamber music, encompassing diverse modern cello ensemble pieces and new cello chamber compositions from the 21st century. It highlights innovative, cutting-edge, and progressive works for various cello chamber ensembles, including those by Lior Navok.

Arabesque

9' 30" | alto recorder, baroque cello and harpsichord

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Like a Whirling Sand Clock

10' 30" | clarinet, cello and piano

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Piano Trio

22' | violin, cello and piano

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Voices from India
string quartet no. 1

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Hope Cycles

string quartet no. 2

24' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Whispered Questions

string quartet no. 3

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Soliloquy

string quartet no. 4

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Little Suite

12' | clarinet, violin, viola and cello

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Tourelles

12' | four celli and piano

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Piano Quintet

18' | piano, violins (2), viola and cello

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V5 – Quintet for Vibraphone and String Quartet

for vibraphone and string quartet

17' | vibraphone, violins (2), viola and cello

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Quicksand

for Pierrot Ensemble

11' | bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano

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Sextet

for Pierrot ensemble

22' | flute / piccolo/ bass flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano

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Elegy for the Future

for Pierrot ensemble

13' | piccolo / alto flute; clarinet; violin; cello; percussion; piano

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Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble

for chamber ensemble

12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass

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VOCAL MUSIC WITH CELLO


Found in a Train Station

for soprano and ensemble

11' 30" | soprano, mandolin, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

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This section explores contemporary cello vocal music, featuring diverse modern cello vocal compositions and new vocal repertoire for cello and voice. It highlights experimental, avant-garde, and progressive vocal pieces, including chamber works by Lior Navok.

Spring Calls

for soprano and ensemble

10' 30" |  leggero soprano (also plays small percussion instruments), flute, viola, cello and harp

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STAGE MUSIC WITH CELLO


Beauty and the Beast

for narrator and ensemble

31' | actress, violins (2), viola, cello double bass and piano

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The Little Mermaid

for actress and chamber ensemble / chamber orchestra

36' | actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string quintet

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actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string section

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Sheet Music for Cello:

List of Key 20th–21st Century Cello Repertoire

Solo Cello

  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIV – solo cello – 2002

  • Elliott Carter – Figment – solo cello – 1994

  • György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Cello – solo cello – 1948-1953

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

  • John Cage – One4 – solo cello – 1990

  • Toru Takemitsu – Orion – solo cello – 1984

  • Krzysztof Penderecki – Capriccio – solo cello – 1968

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

  • Gérard Grisey – Stèle – solo cello – 1995

  • Brian Ferneyhough – In Nomine – solo cello – 2001

Cello and Piano

  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Cello Sonata, Op. 40 – cello and piano – 1934

  • Sergei Prokofiev – Cello Sonata, Op. 119 – cello and piano – 1949

  • Claude Debussy – Cello Sonata – cello and piano – 1915

  • Francis Poulenc – Cello Sonata – cello and piano – 1948

  • Samuel Barber – Cello Sonata, Op. 6 – cello and piano – 1932

  • Ernest Bloch – From Jewish Life – cello and piano – 1924

  • Frank Bridge – Cello Sonata – cello and piano – 1913-1917

  • William Walton – Passacaglia – cello and piano – 1979

  • Aram Khachaturian – Sonata-Fantasia – cello and piano – 1974

Cello Chamber Works

  • Anton Webern – Three Little Pieces, Op. 11 – cello and piano – 1914

  • George Crumb – Sonata for Cello and Piano – cello and piano – 1955

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis – cello and piano – 1974-75

  • Harrison Birtwistle – Pulse Shadows – cello and ensemble – 1989-1996

  • Tania León – Axon – cello and ensemble – 2001

  • Kaija Saariaho – Spins and Spells – cello and electronics – 1997

  • Steve Reich – Cello Counterpoint – cello and tape – 2003

  • Tristan Murail – Attracteurs étranges – cello and electronics – 2001

  • Helmut Lachenmann – Pression – cello and ensemble – 1969

  • Gérard Grisey – Anubis-Nout – cello and ensemble – 1983

Cello Concertos

  • Béla Bartók – Cello Concerto – cello and orchestra – 1940 (unfinished)

  • Paul Hindemith – Cello Concerto – cello and orchestra – 1940

  • William Walton – Cello Concerto – cello and orchestra – 1956

  • Alfred Schnittke – Cello Concerto No. 1 – cello and orchestra – 1985

  • Krzysztof Penderecki – Cello Concerto No. 2 – cello and orchestra – 1982

  • Bohuslav Martinů – Cello Concerto No. 1 – cello and orchestra – 1930

  • James MacMillan – Cello Concerto – cello and orchestra – 1996

  • György Ligeti – Cello Concerto – cello and orchestra – 1966

  • John Adams – Cello Concerto – cello and orchestra – 2018

  • Kaija Saariaho – Notes on Light – cello and orchestra – 2007

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