Below is a list of famous Cello players throughout the ages.
Where possible i have given links to video or audio sound samples of the classical cellists.
The name Cello is an abbreviation of the Italianvioloncello, which means "little violone", referring to the violone ("big viol"), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that were superseded by the violin family.
Pablo Casals (1876-1973) BACH - Suite no 1 Mov1 Mov2 Documentary Mov1 Master class - Bach Suite Mov1 Mednikoff The Swan ca. 1926 Mov1 Bach's Komm' Suber Tod Mov1
Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976) Saint Saens Mov1 Bourees #1 & #2 from the C-Major Suite by Bach Mov1 Variations by Schubert-Piatigorsky Mov1 Chopin's Cello Sonata Mov1 Tchaikovsky Waltz Mov1 Lili Boulanger's Nocturne Mov1 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Mov1 Rubinstein-Romance Mov1 SAINT SEANS A MINOR CONCERTO Mov1 ADAGIO AND RONDO BY WEBER Mov1
Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) Kodaly Sonata Op.8 Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4 Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 A.Dvorak- Cello ConcertoNo.2 in B minor Op.104 Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4 Mov5 Mov6 Schumann: Cello Concerto Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4 Dvorak cello concerto.Cello:Pierre Fournier Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4 Bach - Suite for Solo Cello No. 3 in C Major 4th movement - Sarabande Mov1 Haydn C Major Cello Concerto Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Schumann Adagio & Allegro, Op.70 Mov1 Francoeur Cello Sonata in E major Mov1 Mov2 Mov3
Zara Nelsova (1918-2002) Kabalevsky Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.49 Mov1 Mov2Mov3 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Mov1 Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A major, Op.69 Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Sonata in A Major for Cello and Piano, G4a Luigi Boccherini Mov1
Leonard Rose (1918–1984) Beethoven - Cello Sonata - Glenn Gould & Leonard Rose Mov1 Mov2 Mov3
Eleonore Schoenfeld (1925-2006) Soloist and internationally renown cello pedagogue. A Life of Elegance Mov1
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007 ) J.Haydn - Cello Concerto No.2 in D major Mov1 Mov2 Mov2 Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major Mov1 Bach Cello Suite No. 3 Mov1 Bach Cello Suite No. 4 Mov1 Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 5 Mov1 Gavotte and Gigue from Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 in D major Mov1 Courante and Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 in D major Mov1 Bach´s Suite for Solo Cello in C Major: Bourree Mov1
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