Category: Beginner cellists
Unaccompanied solo cello music suitable for folks who are starting to learn to play the cello.
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Ten American Cello Etudes by Aaron Minsky
Ten American Cello Etudes by Aaron Minsky is a one-of-a-kind collection of cello etudes. In this groundbreaking 1988 collection, Minsky laid out a roadmap for generations of classical cellists to come, showing how the instrument could break free from its dignified traditional role and enter the contemporary American rock-and-roll era.
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Yesterday, for a cello without company
Yesterday, written by Paul McCartney in a dream, is arguably one of the greatest songs ever written. It’s also one of the most fitting songs to receive the bachwrotewhat treatment, given its lyrics lamenting the protagonist’s loss of a companion. Here we present: Yesterday, as rewritten for a single cello without accompaniment.
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Bach in the Arms of an Angel
Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel”, released in 1997 on the album Surfacing, mesmerized a generation of listeners and remained on major Billboard charts for extended periods. It has now been recomposed into a self-accompanied cello piece in F major, a transposition chosen to take advantage of the cello’s open strings.