After a while the second violin takes over the conversation from the cello.

La Face Cendreé is a work for soprano, cello, and piano ; it takes the prose poems " Aube " and " Being Beauteous " as subject.

The solo cello opens with a slow andante in the third movement ; the orchestra joins in and then takes over.

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 ).

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.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

During 1914, just as World War I began, Ravel composed his Piano Trio ( for piano, violin, and cello ) with its Basque themes.

Each of its three ten-minute sections features a Spreschstimme soprano who sings fragments of Schoenberg's 21 selections accompanied by flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.

Some instruments fall into more than one category: for example, the cello may be considered either tenor or bass, depending on how its music fits into the ensemble, and the trombone may be alto, tenor, or bass and the French horn, bass, baritone, tenor, or alto, depending on which range it is played.

The clarinet concerto is possibly his most famous instrumental work, with its infectious lyricism and charm coupled with a strong emotional core, but the cello concerto is even more dramatic and is perhaps his greatest work – in it Finzi manages to resolve all his compositional issues to produce a work of astounding drama, beauty, nobility and a sense of melancholic nostalgia which is so characteristic of his work.

" Rubinstein was a prolific composer, writing no fewer than twenty operas ( notably The Demon, written after Lermontov's Romantic poem, and its successor The Merchant Kalashnikov ), five piano concertos, six symphonies and a large number of solo piano works along with a substantial output of works for chamber ensemble, two concertos for cello and one for violin, free-standing orchestral works and tone poems ( including one entitled Don Quixote ).

47, a popular work for cello and orchestra ( its subtitle is " Adagio on Hebrew Melodies for Violoncello and Orchestra "); the principal such melody is the Kol Nidre incantation from the Jewish Yom Kippur service, which gives the piece its name.

These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass ( sometimes considered an anomaly because of its resemblance to the viol family ), the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion.

Mstislav Rostropovich called this suite " a symphony for solo cello " and characterised its D major tonality as evoking joy and triumph.

His Durham Concerto, commissioned by Durham University for its 175th anniversary celebrations, received its world premiere on 20 October 2007 in Durham Cathedral by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and featured soloists Lord on Hammond Organ, Kathryn Tickell on Northumbrian pipes, Matthew Barley on cello and Ruth Palmer on violin.

Finland is known for its many heavy metal acts, including many from the death metal, black metal, folk metal, power metal, cello metal and symphonic metal sub-genres:

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.

This, combined with organ-like stops and multiple keyboards ( the Telharmonium was polyphonic ), as well as a number of foot pedals, meant that every sound could be sculpted and reshaped — the instrument was noted for its ability to reproduce the sounds of common orchestral woodwind instruments such as the flute, bassoon, clarinet, and also the cello.

After a cadence on the dominant C, the cello introduces the first theme of the sonata-allegro, which owes its simplicity to Brahms's interest in Hungarian folk music.

Although it originally used the study of the violin to achieve its goals, it has also been adapted for other instruments: flute, recorder, piano, guitar, cello, viola, bass, organ, harp and voice.

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 went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

Thus, the name carries both an augmentative "- one " (" big ") and a diminutive "- cello " (" little ").

By the turn of the 20th century, it had grown customary to abbreviate the name violoncello to ' cello, with the apostrophe indicating the six missing prefix letters.

It is now customary to use the name " cello " without the apostrophe and as a full designation.

On the occasion of Sacher's 70th birthday, twelve composer-friends of his ( Conrad Beck, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Wolfgang Fortner, Alberto Ginastera, Cristóbal Halffter, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Huber and Witold Lutosławski ) were asked by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write compositions for cello solo using his name spelt out in musical notes as the theme ( eS, A, C, H, E, Re ).

In 1870, it was given to Karl Davydov ( 1838-1889 ) by patron, Count Matvei Wielhorski ( 1794 – 1866 ) ( see Russian Wikipedia ), at the court of Tsar Alexander II, and it is Davydov's name the cello bears today.

) joined to the usual string quartet ( two violins, a viola, and a cello ), gives the resulting ensemble its name, such as " piano quintet ", " clarinet quintet ", etc.

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.

The latter work was originally composed on the occasion of Paul Sacher's 70th birthday in 1976, on a request by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write compositions for cello solo using his name spelt out in musical notes as the theme ( eS, A, C, H, E, Re ).

On the occasion of Paul Sacher's 70th birthday, Holliger was one of twelve composer-friends of his who were asked by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write compositions for cello solo using his name spelt out in German names for musical notes on the theme ( eS, A, C, H, E, Re ); Holliger contributed a Chaconne for Violoncello Solo.

She developed together with Shubhendra a collection of pieces for sitar and cello with percussion under the collective name ' East marries West '.

* Sonata Romantica ( Homage to Franz Schubert ) for cello and guitar: an elaboration of the piece of the same name by Manuel M. Ponce for solo guitar ( 2002 )

He challenged the sensibilities of Tagore song listeners with the use of the Spanish guitar, the saxophone, the clarionet, the piano and the cello along with the sitar, the sarode, the esraj and the violin ; and all this in the name of ' interpretation ' and ' freedom of expression '.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

The double bass's proportions are dissimilar to those of the violin and cello ; for example, it is deeper ( the distance from top to back is proportionally much greater than the violin ).

While tuning mechanisms generally differ from the higher-pitched orchestral stringed instruments, some basses have non-functional, ornamental tuning pegs projecting from the side of the pegbox, in imitation of the tuning pegs on a cello or violin.

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Mik Kaminski joined as violinist, while remaining cellist Edwards finished the cello parts before McDowell returned to ELO from Wizzard.

In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the tiny requinto to the guitarrón, a guitar larger than a cello, which is tuned in the bass register.

Important from this period are six sonate a quattro, or string sonatas, composed in three days, unusually scored for two violins, cello and double bass.

Theremin recalled trying to find the notes for tunes he remembered from when he played the cello, such as the Swan by Saint-Saëns.

Many pieces from the baroque period for solo string instruments, such as Bach's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin and cello, convey subtle harmony through inference rather than full chordal structures.

* Alison Chesley – cello on multiple tracks from Worship Music ( 2011 )

A concerto ( from the, plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos ) is a musical composition usually composed in four parts or movements, in which ( usually ) one solo instrument ( for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute ) is accompanied by an orchestra.

Antonín Dvořák ’ s cello concerto ranks among the supreme examples from the Romantic era while those of Robert Schumann, Carl Reinecke, David Popper, and Julius Klengel focus on the lyrical qualities of the instrument.

35, for soprano, oboe, viola, and cello ( 1924 ), Mahnung an die Jugend, sich der Musik zu befleissigen ( from the Plöner Musiktage, 1932 ), and Ite angeli veloces for alto and tenor, mixed chorus, and orchestra, with audience participation ( 1953 – 55 ).

This musical palindrome was for piano, recorder and cello and again was universally reversible-two players could play from the same sheet of music reading from opposite ends.

Vibrations from the bars resonate as they pass through the tubes, which amplify the tone in a manner very similar to the way in which the body of a guitar or cello would.

Since bars are fairly massive compared to strings, better results are obtained by using bows from the larger string instruments, at least a cello bow and often a double bass bow.

Offenbach as a young cello virtuoso, drawing by Alexandre Laemlein from 1850

Returning to the familiar Paris salons, Offenbach quietly shifted the emphasis of his work from being a cellist who also composed to being a composer who played the cello.

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 ).