Author: Seb
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Gabriel’s Self-accompanied Cello
The composer relayed this origin for the piece you find here: I love Ilse de Ziah’s rearrangement of Gabriel’s Oboe for self-accompanied cello. But it is beyond my playing ability. So I lowered the music by a fifth to G major, and wrote a Bach-style, self-accompanied version that I am able to play myself. The second half of the piece shifts to C major, to explore alternative ways to leverage G and C strings. I don’t know if the result is still “an arrangement”. Perhaps “recomposed” is a better name for what turned out.
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Inch Strand by Ilse de Ziah
Ilse de Ziah is an Irish-Australian cellist who composes and rearranges cello music. She published several collections of music for unaccompanied solo cello. Inch Strand is a good example of her own composition. It is written in the style of traditional Irish airs which are well represented in her collections of unaccompanied solo cello work. Sheet music for Inch Strand can be purchased online as part of the Irish Airs For Solo Cello eBook, a great collection of unaccompanied solo music that introduces a cellist to new techniques to bring out both body and color of Irish airs.
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Gabriel’s Oboe per Ilse de Ziah
Ilse de Ziah is an Irish-Australian cellist who composes and rearranges cello music. She published several collections of music for unaccompanied solo cello. The rearranged Gabriel’s Oboe is a good example of her work for unaccompanied solo cello. Sheet music for Gabriel’s Oboe can be purchased online as part of the Wedding Music for Solo Cello, a great collection of unaccompanied solo music that allows a single cellist to project powerful music throughout an entire wedding.
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Swan + Swan by Bach
The arranger relayed this origin for the double solos you find here: I previously rearranged The Swan by Saint-Saëns in the style of Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites. I jokingly titled it “Bach Wrote The Swan”. Many people told me that there was almost nothing from Saint-Saëns left in my work. So here I lay a slightly mutated version of the original melody alongside my work, to prove that the issue lies with my poor playing, and hopefully not with the music itself.
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Bach Wrote The Swan
The arranger relayed this origin for the piece you find here: I tried to play The Swan, but it was too hard for me. It’s a never-ending stream of high position notes, played on just the A and D string. So I transposed it down a fifth to accommodate my low skill level. But then no self-respecting pianist would play the traditional piano part with me. So I added some accompaniments of my own, in between notes from the melody, in the style of Bach cello suites. Yeah. I quite like the end result – an unaccompanied Swan.