SKU: A0.1206348

Cello Solo, performance duration 4'18. Inspired by Common Threads: Stories of the Quilt. 50% of proceeds are donated to the National Aids Memorial.

SKU: A0.924869

This humorous solo cello piece was written while the composer was an undergraduate student at the Boston Conservatory of Music (now the Boston Conservatory at Berklee). One day the composer and a cellist friend of his were walking down a sidewalk in Kenmore Square when, all of a sudden, a looney man jumped into the busy traffic on Commonwealth Avenue playing a melody on a slide flute. The theme which opens this piece is that tune. The music that follows depicts him darting around creating chaos with cars honking their horns at him, etc. This is a fun piece. Enjoy!

SKU: A0.780071

This hymn is commonly known as 'The Bandsmen's Hymn' in the UK like most Hymns it's simplicity gives it it's beauty. Here it's in three verses each a little different form the other.

I hope you enjoy, useful for incidental music at an engagement etc.

SKU: A0.871389

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 for solo piano at the age of 27 years, and was published in 1799. It has remained one of his most celebrated compositions.

The 2nd Movement, Andante Cantabile is arranged for Cello Solo in the Original Key
Perfect for recitals, solo gigs or just classroom repertoire!

Difficulty: Advanced Intermediate (Tenor Clef, Ornaments)

Also Available for String Quartet

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SKU: A0.1260440

Most commonly heard as a graduation processional, this is Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 1. Arranged for solo cello. Great for lessons, recitals, graduation and commencement services. Easy intermediate level.

SKU: A0.1018897

Programme Notes:

 Icarus Also Flew takes its title from the first line of the poem Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert. He is referring to the classical myth of Daedalus and Icarus, an inventive father and son who bravely escape from their imprisonment in a tower by collecting the disposed feathers of seabirds, then fashion wings out of them and fly away. While the story is often treated as a morality tale--listen to your elders, don’t get cocky like the young man, Icarus, who, in such an understandable state of elation, ascended too close to the sun thus causing the wings to melt and his tumbling to his Mediterranean death--what Jack Gilbert reminds us is how regardless of one’s failure, the sheer transcendental experience of mortal flight remains glorious and unforgettable. Icarus’s fall was not into a legacy of disdain and oblivion, but in truth, he had come to the end of his triumph.

 This piece was the first of a series I composed during the Covid-19 quarantine conditions of 2020, to serve as potential contemporary preludes for each of Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies--his two hundred and fiftieth anniversary was this year!--though they can all stand on their own on any program. The connection, in this case, is with his celebrated fifth symphony in C minor--the Fate symphony, as it is commonly known. I’ll let the listener find their own connections.

About the Composer:

Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.