Wagner's Overture to the opera Tannhauser

This excerpt is especially difficult when switching duple rhythmic figures to triplets as it tends to become rhythmically unstable.

Mendelssohn's Scherzo to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

These two excerpts are often on audition lists for professional cellists. It involves a well-controlled spiccato bow stroke and, of course, steady rhythm!

Richard Strauss' Tone Poem Also Sprach Zarathustra

This is a serious of excerpts spliced together one after the other from Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. It is not asked on auditions all that much. You will hear why cellists are often relieved to NOT see it on an audition list.

John Landefeld, cello    Dan Lewis, piano

Recital at C.C. Young "The Point" Dallas, TX - March 29, 2008

Below are some orchestral excerpts and collaborative performances

Akira Sato, cello  John Landefeld, cello  Yui Hosoi, cello  Maki Fujiwara, piano

Recital at Le Classique in Fujisawa, Japan

June 24, 2018