Yehuda Hanani is an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i-American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 cellist

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

. He is a Professor of Violoncello at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

The University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music is the performing arts college of the University of Cincinnati and is one of the nation's leading music conservatories. In its most recent rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cincinnati sixth nationally among university programs...

 and an international soloist and master class teacher. Hanani studied with Leonard Rose

Leonard Rose

Leonard Rose was an American cellist and pedagogue.Rose was born in Washington, D.C., his parents were immigrants from Kiev, Ukraine...

 at Juilliard

Juilliard School

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 and with Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals

Pau Casals i Defilló , known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time...

.

At the age of 19, Hanani was taken to the United States from Israel by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein was in the country to guest conduct with the Israel Philharmonic, and heard Hanani perform. Bernstein had to personally write a letter to the head of the Israeli armed forces in order to secure Hanani's release from the army.

J.S. Bach — Six Suites for Cello Solo

Cello Suites (Bach)

The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello...

 

• Suite No. 1 in G major
• Suite No. 4 in E flat major
• Suite No. 5 in C minor
• Suite No. 3 in C major
• Suite No. 2 in D minor
• Suite No. 6 in D major

Dazzle and Nostalgia: Cello Favorites

(with Michele Levin, piano)

• "Song Without Words", Op. 109 — Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  
• "Serenade" — Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
  
• "Rondo" — Weber
  Carl Maria von Weber
  Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
  
  
• "Suite Populaire Espagnole" — de Falla
  Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
  
  
• "Vocalise" — Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
  
• "Nocturne", Op. 19, No. 4 — Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  
• "Valse Sentimentale", Op. 51, No. 6 — Tchaikovsky
• "Sicilienne", Op. 78 — Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  
• "The Swan
  The Carnival of the Animals
  Le carnaval des animaux is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes.-History:...
  
  " — Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  
• "Variations on a Theme from Rossini
  Gioacchino Rossini
  Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
  
  's Moses" — Paganini
  Niccolò Paganini
  Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...
  
  
• "Liebesleid" — Kreisler
  Fritz Kreisler
  Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
  
  
• "Schön Rosmarin" — Kreisler
• "Czardas — Monti
  Vittorio Monti
  Vittorio Monti was an Italian composer, violinist, and conductor.Monti was born in Naples, where he studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella...
  
  

Schubert/Schumann for Cello and Piano

(with Michele Levin, piano)

• "Sonata in A Minor", D. 821 "Arpeggione" — Franz Schubert
• "Sonatina in D Major", Op. 137, No. 1, D. 384 — Schubert
• "Stücke im Volkston in A Minor", Op. 102 — Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  
• "Fantasie Stücke" — Schumann

Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

— Six Sonatas for Cello, Harpsichord, and Continuo

(with Lionel Party, Harpsichord; and Miho Zaitsu, Continuo)

• Sonata No. 1 in B flat major
• Sonata No. 2 in F major
• Sonata No. 3 in A minor
• Sonata No. 4 in B flat minor
• Sonata No. 5 in E minor
• Sonata No. 6 in B flat major

External links

• College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati