Orchestral Excerpts for Cello / with Spoken Commentary (CD)

Orchestral Excerpts for Cello (with Spoken Commentary)

A study disc featuring standard orchestral audition excerpts for cello with spoken commentary.

1. Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture (3:40)
2. Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1 (2:30)
3. Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 2 (2:59)
4. Johannes Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 (5:43)
5. Richard Strauss – Don Juan (5:46)
6. Richard Strauss – Ein Heldenleben (2:14)
7. Richard Strauss – Don Quixote (1:21)
8. Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2 (2:27)
9. Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations (1:44)
10. Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 (4:32)
11. Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 8 (1:57)
12. Claude Debussy – La Mer (2:45)
13. Giuseppe Verdi – Requiem (Offertorio) (2:41)
14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Marriage of Figaro Overture (0:29)
15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 (2:07)
16. Felix Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night's Dream (0:31)
17. Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 "Italian" (1:49)
18. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 (4:46)
19. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique" (4:09)
20. Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 5 (4:26)

Total playing time: 63:18

• Ronald Leonard – cello
• Spoken commentary by Ronald Leonard
• Principal Cellist, Los Angeles Philharmonic