Cello excerpt
Bruch, Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
Adagio
Bruch's setting of the Yom Kippur prayer for cello and orchestra. Deeply expressive cantorial line.
At a glance
- Instrument
- Cello
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Work
- Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
- Movement
- Adagio
- Era
- Late-Romantic (c. 1880–1910)
- Composed
- 1881
- Key
- D
- Metre
- 4/4
- Tempo
- Adagio ma non troppo · ♩ ≈ 56
- Clef
- Bass clef
- Level
- Advanced, conservatory level
- Audition list
- Not a standard excerpt
How to practise it
The bow style, the trouble spots, and the stylistic decisions that come up most often on this excerpt.
Style
Cantorial, like a sung prayer. Vibrato wide, expressive sliding allowed.
Tags
Work on the technique underneath
Arco's cello curriculum builds the bow strokes, positions, and clef reading this excerpt assumes, with recorded cello playback throughout.