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19th-Aug-2012

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 Italian violoncello,
 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string instruments that were superseded by the violin family.
 

List of compositions for cello and orchestra

 

Cellists


Jean-Pierre Duport (1741-1818)

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) (also a classical composer)

Jean-Louis Duport (1749-1819)

Antonín Kraft (1749-1820)

Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884)

Felix Battanchon (1814-1893)

Jacques Offenbach  (1819-1890)

Bernhard Cossmann (1822-1910)

Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901)

Gaetano Braga (1829-1907) (also a composer)

Friedrich Grützmacher (1832-1903)

Karl Davidov (1838-1889)

David Popper (1843-1913)

Victor Herbert (1859-1924) (also composer)

Julius Klengel (1859–1933)

William Henry Squire (1871-1963)


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


Paul Bazelaire (1886-1958)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)

Beatrice Harrison (1892-1965)

Karel Pravoslav Sádlo (1898-1971) cello pedagogue


Emanuel Feuermann (1902-1942)
Dvorak's Rondo Op. 94     Mov1
Spinning Song   Mov1
Chopin nocturne Op.9 No.2     Mov1
DVORAK Rondo op.9   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


Raya Garbousova (1909-1997)


André Navarra (1911-1988)
Paganini Moses Fantasy   Mov1
Beethoven "Handel" Variations  Mov1 Mov2
Dvorak - Rondo for Cello   Mov1
Paganini Variations on a theme by rossini   Mov1
 His bow technique  Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4
Navarra explains his technique  Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4
Bach Sonata No.3 BWV 1029   Mov1


Paul Tortelier  (1914-1990)
Testament to Bach   Mov1


William Pleeth (1916-1999)
Cello Masterclass   Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4


Antonio Janigro (1918-1989)


Zara Nelsova (1918-2002)
Kabalevsky Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.49      Mov1 Mov2 Mov3
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


Maurice Gendron (1920-1990)
Debussy: Cello Sonata   Mov1 Mov2
Flight of the bumble bee Mov1


Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960)

Daniil Borisovich Shafran (1923-1997)
Shostakovich Cello Sonata Op.40      Mov1 Mov2
Dvorak concerto       Mov1 Mov2 Mov3
Bocherinni Minuet     Mov1
Schedrin Imitating Albeniz      Mov1
Bach's cello suite no.2 Prelude  Mov1


Christopher Bunting (1924-2005)


Janos Starker   (1924)
Cassado Suite 1st Movement Mov1
Bach :  Bouree C Major  Mov2
Boccherini Sonata in A Major Mov3
Saint Saens the Swan  Mov4
Bartok Rumanian Folk Dance Mov5


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


Anner Bylsma (1934)
 Gigue from the C maj Suite  Mov1
De Arm van Bach  Mov1


Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987)
 Elgar Cello Concerto   Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4 Mov5
  Elgar - Barenboim Adagio. Moderato Mov1
Saint-saens Concerto in A minor  Mov1
Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 Adagio Mov1
 Haydn Cello Concerto C major Allegro Molto  Mov1
  Jacqueline du Pre & Elgar Cello Concerto Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4
Mov5 Mov6 Mov7 Mov8


Julian Lloyd Webber (1951)
Bach's 'Arioso'    Mov1
Faure 's Elegy    Mov1
Fire Dance          Mov1
Popper's Gavotte   Mov1


Eugene Friesen (1952)


Yo-Yo Ma (1955)
 Elgar Cello Concerto Mov1 Mov2 Mov3 Mov4
 The Swan Saint-Saens Mov1


Joan Jeanrenaud (1956- )
a concerto for four violins arranged by William Skeen for four Celli Mov1

Richard Aaron (1960- )

Andrés Rodrigo López  (1963)

Johann Sebastian Paetsch (1964)
 Souvenir de Spa by Adrien-Francois Servais Mov1 Mov2

Gavriel Lipkind (1977)

Richard Harwood (1979)


 

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