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Hello!!!

I am looking for some sugguestions for piano and cello duet music. I asked if, this summer, I could work with another intrumentalist. She asked "What instrument?" and I said a cello because I really like the rich, dark tone of the cello.

Anyhow, does anyone have any sugguestions for good piano and cello music?

How about the Largo movement of Chopin's g minor sonata for cello and piano ?

(Yes, I was quite surprised to learn that Chopin wrote several chamber works!) The other movements of this sonata are out of my reach. I'm an adult re-starter with several years of lessons and I recently worked on this as my first ensemble piece. I had a lot of fun learning this and playing it with my cellist friend at a recent informal get-together. Since I didn't have any experience hearing another musical line while playing, I propped my iPad on the music rack and played along with the youtube video so that at least I could hear the cello part while learning/playing my part.

I'm eager to hear recommendations from the more experienced players as well. :-)

That sound's great. Thanks!!

Anyone with other sugguestions?

Schumann's Stücke in Volkston are nice, and not too difficult.

How advanced is the cellist? He/she might have suggestions. Here are some off the top of my head:

Vivaldi sonatas; these are realizations of figured bass, but quite nice, though purists would not approve: Vivaldi sonatas
Bach - gamba sonatas (easily playable on the cello).
Beethoven - first two cello-piano sonatas.
Mendelssohn, Grieg, Shostakovich - all wrote sonatas, and I don't think the piano parts are extremely difficult.
Rachmaninoff - slow movement of his cello sonata.
There are lots of nice short pieces (e.g., Dvorak Waldesruhe), some original, some arrangements.

Quite short, and not too challenging for either the pianist or the cellist (I think), and very beautiful : Saint-Saens, "The Swan" from Carnival of the Animals.

Regards,

terribly difficult for the cello, mind you!

Fauré's Élégie is not too hard, and very beatiful at that, well yeah, ok, who doesn't like music for the millions, but it's a stayer, Rachmaninov's Vocalise transcribed would please anyone, if played well, haha, and there is of course the Polonaise op.3 by Chopin, easy on the cello, but.........