After she heard him play the Mendelssohn C minor Trio in 1857, she wrote that " he so rattled it off that I did not know how to control myself ... and often he so annihilated fiddle and cello that I ... could hear nothing of them.

Although the two albums encompass nearly every major song featured in the film, they did not include " 99 Luftballons " by Nena, " Lonely Boy " by Andrew Gold, " Compared to What " by Roberta Flack, " Fat Man " by Jethro Tull, " Sunny " by Boney M., and " The Sage ," a cello piece by Chico Hamilton.

A friend of Jacqueline du Pré, he began cello studies with her at the age of 41 when she offered to teach him on the condition that he perform on his 50th birthday at Carnegie Hall in New York, which he did.

The cello did not survive intact, but it was the only casualty.

Though growing up in a musical family he was encouraged in musical pursuits, playing cello in the family string quartet, he did not pursue music as a career until late in his life.

He never did learn to play the cello.

He also co-founded The Duo ( with Mike Marshall ), Psychograss ( the bluegrass group including Mike Marshall, mandolin ; Todd Phillips, bass ; David Grier, guitar ; and Tony Trischka, banjo ), and Fiddlers Four ( with Michael Doucet, Bruce Molsky, violins ; and Rushad Eggleston, cello ).

It was the Peresson cello that du Pré played for the remainder of her career until 1973, using it for a second, live, recording of the Elgar Concerto, and her last studio recording, of Frédéric Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor and César Franck's Violin Sonata in A arranged for cello, in December 1971.

These three concertos were written for the members of a renowned Soviet piano trio that performed together from 1941 until 1963: David Oistrakh, violin ; Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, cello ; Lev Oborin, piano.

This led to a cooling of Brahms and Joachim's friendship, which was not restored until some years later, when Brahms composed the Double Concerto in A minor for violin and cello, Op.

The exchanges continue until the cello leads the orchestra into an aggressive climax ; flutes drive the other instruments into a spiralling set of tone shifts, while the brass proclaim long, lonely notes beneath.

From 1941 to 1949, he was head of the cello department at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and he also taught at Tanglewood, Boston University, and the University of Southern California, where he remained until his death.

After this, the drone is again prominent and the swarmandal plays an ascending scale, followed by a lone cello in descending scale that leads to the final verse in 16-beat tintal (" And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you ") ending with the notes of the dilruba left hanging, until the tonal and spiritual tension is relieved by a muted use of canned laughter.

Stevenson learnt piano and cello and she assumed until she was 19 that she would be a professional musician.

He retained until 1897 the post of first cello at these famous chamber concerts, during the latter half of each series.

Saskia started her cello training under the late Hungarian cellist Tibor de Machula until his death.

" After that ," as he has said, " I moved around to different family friends ' houses with my one suitcase and cello until I was 18, when I joined the Cleveland Orchestra.

In the later 1990s the symphonic metal group Apocalyptica played Metallica cover songs as cello quartettos and sold half a million records worldwide.

He has experimented with a combo of three string-players ( violin, cello and double bass ) and drums in 1991, under the name Fields in Miniature, and has worked in other musical fields, including collaboarations with UK post punk band The Pop Group in 1979, The Ex during the early 1990s and Ig Henneman Tentet.

In the late 1990s the cello metal group Apocalyptica played Metallica cover versions as cello quartettos and sold half a million records worldwide.

Since the late 1990s, Greaves has divided his time between two contrasting bands, an electric trio named Roxongs – the original line-up, with François Ovide on guitar and Manu Denizet on drums, heard on 2001's The Caretaker, has since changed to Jef Morin on guitar and Matthieu Rabaté on drums – and an acoustic trio named Jazzsongs, with Sophia Domancich on piano and Vincent Courtois on cello, which recorded 2003's The Trouble With Happiness, once again a mixture of old and new songs, but this time with Greaves himself singing all the way through.

The first public performance was given by Beethoven himself, Ignaz Schuppanzigh ( violin ) and Josef Linke ( cello ) at the Viennese hotel Zum römischen Kaiser on 11 April 1814, as his deafness continued to encroach upon his ability as a performer.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

Wind quartets are scored either the same as a string quartet with the wind instrument replacing the first violin ( i. e. scored for wind, violin, viola and cello ) or are groups of four wind instruments.

His own first date as leader, Where ?, with Dolphy and Mal Waldron and a date also with Dolphy called Out There with George Duvivier and Roy Haynes and Carter on cello ; its advanced harmonies and concepts were in step with the third stream movement.

Currently, the most common tuning fork sounds the note of A = 440 Hz, because this is the standard concert pitch, which is used as tuning note by some orchestras, it being the pitch of the violin's second string, the first string of the viola, and an octave above the first string of the cello, all played open.

Präparierter Text 1 is adapted from the second movement of Brahms ' Symphony No. 1, and is for violin and magnetic tape ; Präparierter Text 2 is adapted from the first movement of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony ( No. 41 ), and is for flute, trumpet, timpani, violin, cello and double bass ; Präparierter Text 3 is adapted from the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and is for cymbal, bass drum and magnetic tape ; and Präparierter Text 4 is adapted from the Ricercar a 6 from Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering and is for chamber orchestra ( a version for full orchestra followed in 1970 ).

Slocum played cello on Viva Voce's first album, Hooray For Now.

In the first movement of Quatuor pour la fin du temps the piano and cello together provide an early example.

The Engberg family's affiliation with the Seattle Symphony has been subject to many subsequent embellishments, some of which have come from the Seattle Symphony organization itself ( including literature celebrating the Symphony's 2003 centennial ), that Mary Davenport Engberg was the Seattle Symphony's first female conductor, the first and only female conductor in the nation, that the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Civic Symphony merged in 1921, and that her son, Paul, played cello in the Seattle Symphony.

He won the first prize in cello at the conservatoire when he was 16, and then he studied harmony under Jean Gallon.

The first edition of Kent Kennan's The Technique of Orchestration ( 1952 ) quotes three passages from this symphony to illustrate good orchestral writing for cello, timpani, and vibraphone, respectively.

A typical 19th century European orchestra included a first violin, a contra-violin ( or modified 3-stringed viola also called Groyse Fidl Big Fiddle, Sekund, Kontra or Zsidó Bratsch ), a tsimbl ( cimbalom or hammered dulcimer ), a bass or cello, and sometimes a flute.

He made his professional debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss.

In one of these revisions, he undid Franz Liszt's suggestion to give the second theme of the first movement ( as well as the first theme of the second ) to the trumpet rather than to the cello.

Within the concerto, the cello plays the theme for the first three minutes, before the piano comes in.

However, scholars generally believe that — based on a comparative analysis of the styles of the sets of works — the cello suites arose first, effectively dating the suites pre-1720, the year on the title page of Bach's autograph of the violin sonatas.

It was first performed on 4 April 1997 by Martin Vogel ( clarinet ), Mayumi Hasegawa ( violin ) and Monika Schwamberger ( cello ) at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg, as first piece of the opening concert of the 11th Festival " Gegenwelten " for New Music, organized by the Kulturinstitut Komponistinnen.

In 1975, four students at the Music Academy in Budapest, Gábor Takács-Nagy ( first violin ), Károly Schranz ( second violin ), Gabor Ormai ( viola ), and András Fejér ( cello ) formed The Takács Quartet.

An earlier version, BWV 1050a, has innumerable small differences from its later cousin, but only two main ones: there is no part for cello, and there is a shorter and less elaborate ( though harmonically remarkable ) harpsichord cadenza in the first movement.

His first orchestra position was as a flute and piccolo player, but he soon turned solely to the cello.