This instrument is featured along with the piano in "Praise to the Eternity of Jesus," part of the Quartet for the End of Time.
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