Repertoire Guidelines for Cello
Students should be working on, or able to play music at the level indicated by these selections. These are guidelines for repertoire. The student does not necessarily need to play these specific pieces. Students should either perform two shorter pieces (or movements) or one longer piece.
Level A
Suzuki Bk 1 - very early songs or by rote
Level B
Suzuki Bk 1 or other early literature
Level 1
- Bohm Two Minuets
- Elting Solo Time for Strings/Cello Bk. 3
- Lengyel/Pejtsik Cello Music for Beginners
- Nelson Piece By Piece Vol. 1 and 2
- Purcell Rigadoon and Minuet
- Suzuki Bk. 1
Level 2
- Applebaum 20 Progressive Solos
- Bach for the Cello
- Bartles 7 Easy Pieces for Beginning Cellists
- Feuillard Young Cellist Vol. I
- Lengyel/Pejtsik Cello Music for Beginners
- Matz Little Suite, Sonata de Camera
- Suzuki Bk. 2
Level 3
- Black and Harris Time Pieces Vol. 3
- Brevel Concertino No. 4
- Etling Solo Time for Strings/Cello Bk. 3
- Hummel Arioso
- Matz Sonatina in G, Lyrical Sketches, Suites
- Suzuki Bk. 3
Level 4
- Bach/Krane Intermediate Bach for Cello
- Breval Allegro, Concertinos
- Feuillard Young Cellist Vol. I
- Marcello Sonatas
- Matz Sonata in Modo Antico, Tema con Variazioni
- Moussorgsky Hopak
- Mozart Rondo in D
- Pejtsik Violincello Music Vol. 3
- Scarlatti 3 Sonatas for Cello and Piano
- Squire Bourree
- Suzuki Bks. 4,5
- Vivaldi Concerto for Violincello Op.26 No. 9
- Webber Young Cellists Repertoire Bk. 3
Level 5
- JC Bach Concerto in c minor
- Bach Cello Suites
- Beethoven Sonatas
- Bloch Prayer
- Boccherini Sonata No. 1
- Couperin Pieces in Concert
- Deri Cello Music by French Composers
- Eccles Sonata
- Faure Apres Un Reve, Elegie, Sicilienne
- Galliard 6 Sonatas for Bassoon or Cello
- Goltermann Concertos
- Handel Sonata in C Major
- Klengel Concertinos
- Marcello Sonatas
- Popper Spanish Dance, Mazurka
- SaintSaens Allegro Appassionata
- Schumann Fantasy Pieces
- Squire Tarentella
- Suzuki Bk. 7
- Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folksong
- Vivaldi Sonatas
Level 6
- Bach Suites , Sonatas
- Beethoven Sonatas
- Bloch Suite for Violincello
- Boccherini Concertos, Sonatas
- Brahms Sonata No. 1
- Breval Concerto No. 2
- Bruch Kol Nidrei
- Faure Sonata in d minor
- Frescobaldi Toccata
- Haydn Concertos
- Lalo Concerto
- Martinu Variations on a Theme of Rossini
- Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Tarentella
- Saint-Saens Concerto
- Shostakovich Sonata
- Veracini Sonata
- Vivaldi Concerto in G