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[GG-Duo]

Can anyone recommend some music with cello(s)?

I'm looking for both the Yo-Yo Ma type, or just songs with cello in it.... as long as it isn't some melodramatic rock opera bullshit.

Thanks.

 

[Prospero]

Try Elgar's Cello Concerto.

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[Christoff Yurievich]

 

[robochimp]

You need Bach's cello suites

 

[speedpop]

Yoko Kanno - Myung's Theme (cello version)
Macross Plus: For Fans Only album

That's all you need.

 

[Atari2600]

You can't go wrong with any Bach suites. Any Yo Yo Ma, or Janos (sp?) Starker CD would give you a pretty good mix of composers and styles of music.

 

[Lambtron]

I think that there's a cellist in Cursive. They rock pretty hard.

 

[etiolate]

Rasputina

 

[Manabanana]

The Books - That Right Ain't Shit

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

The Books - That Right Ain't Shit

Beat me to it.

 

[Atari2600]

If you're looking for songs with just a little Cello, McCartney's Live and Let die has a short solo, and Bush's Glycerine has some.

There's also a String Quartet Tribute to Pearl Jam out there, if you're looking for that sort of thing. It's decent - if you like PJ.

 

[brooklyngooner]

You can't go wrong with any Bach suites. Any Yo Yo Ma, or Janos (sp?) Starker CD would give you a pretty good mix of composers and styles of music.

If you mean classical, I wholeheartedly recommend this, particularly the Starker; his Cello Suites are overall the best I've heard. I don't care for Yo Yo Ma's renditions. But you might. Also of course Casals and Rostropovich. The latter did many recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic which are wonderful. Whatever you do, avoid those goofy "OMG The Most Like Totally Cool Relaxing Music To Make Your Baby Smart" compilations; they offer the blandest, most generic recordings. The performer will begin to matter as much to you as the composer.

 

[thomaser]

Try anything played by Truls Mork. Like these:

Benjamin Britten Cello Suites 1-3

Dvorak Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky Rococco Variations

Edvard Grieg Cello Sonata (This also has the excellent Haavard Gimse on piano).