List of Solo Cello Pieces - B

B

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Six Suites (ca. 1720)
  • Sonatas and partitas (originally for solo violin)
• Holmer Becker
  • Sonata (2005)
• Nicolas Bacri
  • Suite, Op. 31 No. 1 Preludio e metamorfosi (1987–94)
  • Suite, Op. 31 No. 2 Tragica (1991–93)
  • Suite, Op. 31 No. 3 Vita et Mors (1991–93)
  • Suite, Op. 50 No. 4 (1994–96) (Written for Emmanuelle Bertrand)
• Roumen Balyosov
  • Welcome XX Century (2000)
  • Suite No. 5, Op. 70b Sonata variata (2000–2001) (dedicated to Clémentine Meyer) (ed Peer Music)
  • Suite No. 6 Op. 88 (2004) (ed. Le Chant du Monde)
• Henk Badings
  • Sonata No. 2
• David N. Baker
  • Sonata (1990)
• Rumen Balyozov
  • Rhapsodic Improvisation No. 1 (4 min) (1971)
  • Rhapsodic Improvisation No. 2 (5 min) (1979)
• Don Banks
  • Sequence (1967)
• Gennady Banshchikov
  • Concerto for cello No.3 for solo cello (1965)
• Granville Bantock
  • Sonata in G minor (1924)
• George Barati
  • Piece (1948)
  • Triple Exposure (1967)
• Rami Bar-Niv
  • Improvisation
• Carmen Petra Basacopol
  • Suite Op. 48 No. 3 (1983)
• Arnold Bax
  • Rhapsodic Ballad (1939)
• Conrad Beck
  • Epigrams, ( for Paul Sacher)
• Grant Belgarian
  • Elegy for solo cello
• Elizabeth Bell
  • Soliloquy (1980)
• Paul Ben-Haim
  • Music (9 min) (1974)
• Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Partita (10 min) (2001)
  • Sonata
  • Scena II (10 min) (1973)
• Niels Viggo Bentzon
  • Sonata Op. 110 (19 min) (1956)
  • Variations on "The Volga Boatmen", Op. 354 (21 min) (1974)
  • 16 Etudes Op. 464 (18 min) (1984)
  • Sonata Op. 110
• Esteban Benzecry
  • Suite "Prisme du Sud (1970)
• Michael Berkeley
  • Iberian Notebook Suite (15 min) (1980)
• Luciano Berio
  • Les mots sont allés (1978) (for Paul Sacher)
  • Sequenza VIb (16 min) (1981)
  • Chanson pour Pierre Boulez (Song for Pierre Boulez) (3 min) (2000)
  • Sequenza XIV (12 min) (2002)
• Gunther Bialas
  • Romanze (for Hoelscher) (1987)
• Marshall Bialosky
  • Fantasy (1974)
• Jörg Birkenkötter
  • Solo (1986)
• Marc Bleuse
  • Soleil blanc
• Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
  • Suites 1–3 (1956–7) (written for Zara Nelsova)
  • "Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hebraique" (hear recording by Veronika Blinder)
• Robert Paul Block
  • Fantasy (1973)
• Karl Boelter
  • Of Two Minds (6 min) (1978)
• William Bolcom
  • Suite in C minor (17 min) (1994)
• Ennio Bolognini
  • Adagio an Allegro
  • Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa
  • Seranata de Bolonini
  • Seranata del Eco
  • Serenata Del Gaucho
  • Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
  • Cello's Prayer
• Benjamin Boone
  • Buffing the Gut: A Jazz Etude for Cello Solo
• Sergei Bortkiewicz
  • Suite Op. 41
• Hans Bottermund - Janos Starker
  • Variations on a Theme by Paganini
• Hendrik Bouman
  • Suite in D major (2003)
• Reiner Bredemeyer (1929–1995)
  • Solo 1 (1973)
  • Solo 6 (written for H.J. Scheitzbach) (1980)
• Alvin Brehm
  • Variations Alone
• Benjamin Britten
  • Cello Suites (Britten)

Suite No. 1, Op. 72 (1964)

Suite No. 2, Op. 80 (1967)

Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (1972)

• • Tema "Sacher," (for Paul Sacher)
• Gregory Brown
  • Suite
• Stephen Brown
  • Cello Suites

Takkakaw Falls, first suite (2003, 2004)

Fire, second suite (2005, revised 2012)

There Was a Lady in the East, third suite (2007)

Lilies and the Roses, fourth suite (2011)

Magneto, fifth suite (2012)

• Leo Brouwer
  • Sonata (1960)
• Garrett Brynes
  • Sonata (scordatura: IV = B; III = F) (7 min) (1993)
  • Sprocket! (7 min) (2006)
• Mikhail Bukinik
  • 4 Concert Etudes (No.4 in f minor)
• Sylvano Bussotti
  • Deborah Parker (1987)
  • Variazione
• Yuri Butzko
  • Partita for solo cello