Like a larger instrument in the same family, this instrument often uses a wolf tone eliminator.
This instrument is featured along with the piano in "Praise to the Eternity of Jesus," part of the Quartet for the End of Time. Like a larger instrument in the same family, this instrument often uses a wolf tone eliminator. A concerto in E minor for this instrument was written by Edward Elgar and famously played by (*) Jacqueline du Pre. Bach wrote six suites for this instrument which plays accompanied by pianos in the Swan movement of The Carnival of the Animals. Pablo Casals and Mstislav [MIST-ih-slav] Rostropovich play, for 10 points, what string instrument which is smaller than a double bass yet larger than a viola?
This instrument is featured along with the piano in "Praise to the Eternity of Jesus," part of the Quartet for the End of Time.
violoncello