SOLO CELLO

Common Tones features a series of un-accompanied programs of works tied together by a single tone, or note. This note acts as a portal to vastly different musical spheres ranging from the Baroque period to the music of today.

Program 1: The Prince and the Soldier

J.S. Bach Suite No. 1

Caroline Shaw, “in manus tuas”

Benjamin Britten Suite No. 1, Op. 72

Program 2: Death and the Phoenix

J.S. Bach Suite No. 2

Ana Sokolovic, “Vez”

Benjamin Britten Suite No. 2, Op. 80

Program 3: From Sea to See

J.S. Bach Suite No. 3

Keon Birney, “Dhun Basant”

Benjamin Britte Suite No. 3. Op. 87

Program 4:

Gaspar Cassado Suite

Elizabeth Knudson “Yarilo”

J.S. Bach Suite No. 6

DUO

Nomadic Spirits (violin/cello)

Arthur Honneger Sonatine

Erwin Schulhoff Duo

Zoltán Kodály Duo, Op. 7

Pierrot, Angry at the Moon (cello/piano)

Debussy Cello Sonata in d minor

Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in g minor Op. 19

Madly in Love (cello/piano)

Shostakovich Cello Sonata in d minor, Op. 40

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99

Lament (cello/piano)

Jocelyn Morlock “Halcyon”

Nikolai Korndorf “Triptych”

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in e minor, Op. 38