Description

This carefully curated collection features a graded selection of melodic cello and piano pieces that provide practice with the keys, note ranges, and fingering patterns typical of the early grades. The wide-ranging repertoire spans composers from Tallis to Tchaikovsky and Beethoven to Vaughan Williams. Each volume presents the pieces in chronological order, noting the year each was written.

Songs / Content

• 1. Lament from Arianna [Monteverdi]
• 2. The Earl of Salisbury's Pavan [William Byrd]
• 3. Never weather-beaten Sail [Thomas Campion]
• 4. Volte [L Couperin]
• 5. Come, ye Sons of Art [H. Purcell]
• 6. Menuet 2 from Partita No. 1 [J. S. Bach]
• 7. Suite de la Rejouissance [Daquin]
• 8. Papageno's song from The Magic Flute [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• 9. Andante from the 'Surprise' Symphony
• 10. Ich liebe dich [Ludwig van Beethoven]
• 11. Two German Dances [Franz Schubert]
• 12. St Anthony Chorale [Johannes Brahms]
• 13. Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt [Edvard Grieg]
• 14. Libera me from Requiem [Faure]
• 15. Chez le docteur [Eric Satie]
• 16. The Call from Five Mystical Songs [Vaughan Williams]
• 17. Gallop [Dmitri Kabalevsky]
• 18. King Penguin's Strut [Paul Harris]
• 19. Now is the Month of Maying [Thomas Morley]