The Cello top 10.

I really hate top ten lists. They are usually so subjective that they are virtually useless. Yesterday I was looking at a list of cinematic Olympians that forgot Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Sonja Hennie, and Harold Sakata (Odd Job from the movie Goldfinger). Obviously the people that made up the list did no research and were so young they never watched black and white movies because Johnny Weissmuller was the Michael Phelps of his era and won a total of five gold medals for swimming in two different Olympics. Buster Crabbe won a gold and a bronze for swimming. Sonja Henie won three gold medals for individual women's figure skating. Harold Sakata was an Olympic weightlifter and won a silver medal for the US team. I can understand missing Oddjob but Sonja Henie? She was one of the greatest women figure skaters of all time. And how could they miss Johnny Weissmuller? Everybody played Tarzan but it was Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan that set the standard. I mean who hasn't the Tarzan yodel?

Anyway I'm babbling on about top ten lists because I have one. I'm going to try to develop the top performances of specific instruments to support area music teachers. I've done this on DVD for ballet and on DVD for filmed plays to support Humanities and Drama teachers. Now I've got one for Cello. So all you critics can sharpen your pens. Get ready here it comes.

Top ten performance pieces for the cello
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites number 1-6 by Cellist Pablo Casals
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Sonata in A Major Op. 69
Ernest Bloch: Schelomo, a Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra by Cellist Leonard Rose.
Luigi Boccerini: Concerto in B Flat
Johnnes Brahams: Sonata in E Minor Op 38, Sonata in F Major Op 99
Antonin Dvorak: Concerto in B Minor by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch
Edward Elgar: Concerto in E Minor Op 85 by Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre
Joseph Hayden: Concerto in C Major by Cellist Yo Yo Ma
Camille Saint-Seans: Concerto No. 1 A minor Op 33
Dmitri Shostakovitch: Concerto No. 1 Op. 107 by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch