Cello Listening

Important Cello Repertoire

J. S. Bach

6 Suites for solo cello: No. 1 in G major, No. 2 in D minor, No. 3 in C Major, No. 4 in E-flat major, No. 5 in C minor, No. 6 in D major
3 Sonatas for Viola da Gamba (or cello)and keyboard

Samuel Barber

Cello Concerto
Sonata for Cello and Piano

Bela Bartok

Rumanian Folk Dances
Rhapsodies no. 1 and no. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven

Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra "Triple Concerto"
5 sonatas for Cello and Piano
12 Variations on "See the Conquering Hero Comes" for cello and piano
12 Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" for cello and piano
7 Variations on "Bie Mannern, welche liebe fuhlen" for cello and piano

Ernest Bloch

Schelomo for cello and orchestra
From Jewish Life

Johannes Brahms:

Concerto for Violin and Cello "Double Concerto"
Sonata cello and piano No. 1 in E minor
Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in F Major
Sonata for cello and piano op. 78
Sonatensatz arranged for cello and piano
Hungarian dances and vocal songs arranged for cello and piano

Benjamin Britten

Symphony for Cello and orchestra "Cello Symphony"
3 Suites for solo cello
Sonata in C for cello and piano

Max Bruch

Kol Nidrei

Frederick Chopin

Sonata for cello and piano

Antonin Dvorak

Cello Concerto
Rondo for cello and orchestra
Silent Woods (Waldesruhe)

Edward Elgar

Cello Concerto
Salut d'Amor

Gabriel Faure

Cello SOnata No. 1
Cello Sonata No. 2
Elegie
Sicilienne
Papillion
Romance
Serenade

Cesar Frank

Sonata in A major for cello and piano

Philip Glass

Cello Concerto

Alexander Glazunov

Chant du Minstrel
Elegie op. 17
2 Pieces for cello and orchestra op. 20

Karoly Goldmark

Sonata for Cello and Piano

Edward Grieg

Sonatas for Cello and Piano

Sofia Gubaidulina

10 Preludes for solo cello

Dimitri Kabalevsky

Cello Concerto Nos. 1 and 2

Franz Jospeh Haydn

Cello Concertos in C Major
Cello Concerto in D Major
Divertimento for cello and piano, arranged Piatigorsky

Aram Khachaturian

Cello Concerto in E minor
Cello Concerto Rhapsody for cello and orchestra

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Cello Concerto in C Major

Edouard Lalo

Cello Concerto in D minor

Gyorgy Ligeti

Sonata for solo cello
Cello Concerto

Bohuslav Martinu

3 Sonatas for cello and piano
Variations on a Slovak Folk Song
Variations on a Theme by Rosini
Cello Concerto No. 1
Cello COncerto no. 2

Felix Mendelssohn

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2
Variations Concertantes
Song Without Workds op. 109

Darius Milhaud

Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Elegie for cello and piano
Sonata for cello and piano

Sergei Prokofiev

Sinfonia Concertante
Concertino for Cello and Orchestra
Sonata for cello and piano
Sonata for solo cello op. 133

Sergei Rachmaninov

Sonata in G minor for cello and piano
Vocalise
Two pieces for cello and piano

Maurice Ravel

Piece en forme de Habenera
Sonata for violin and cello

Camille Saint-Saens

Cello Concertos nos. 1 and 2
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Allegro Appassionato
The Swan

Alfred Schnittke

Sonatas for Cello and Piano nos. 1 and 2
Cello Concerto

Franz Schubert

"Arpeggione" Sonata for Cello and Piano
Sonatina for cello and piano

Robert Schumann

Cello Concerto
Five pieces in Folk Style
Fantasy Pieces
Adagio and Allegro

Dimitri Shostakovich

Cello Concerto No. 1
Cello Concerto No. 2
Sonata for Cello and Piano

Jean Sibelius

Andante Molto
Tempi di Valse
Anadnatino
Theme and Variations
2 pieces op. 77
4 pieces op. 78
Malinconia

Christian Sinding

6 Stucke for cello and piano

Richard Strauss

Sonata for cello and piano
Don Quixote

Igor Stravinsky

Suite Italienne

Karol Szymanowski

Sonata for Cello and Piano (transcribed from the violin sonata)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Variations on a Rococo Theme
Chanson Triste

Peteris Vasks