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- Kaija Saariaho
- Petals (1988)
- Près (1992)
- Spins & Spells (1997)
- Sept Papillons (2000)
- Steven Sacco
- "Fantasy" (1999)
- Dimiter Sagaev
- Fresco (2002)
- Nocturne (2001)
- Aulis Sallinen
- Elegy for Sebastian Knight, Op. 10 (1964) (5')
- Sonata Op. 26 (1971) (12')
- Vadim Salmanov
- Monologue for solo cello (1970)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
- Le cygne (1886) (3 min)
- David Sampson (composer)
- Three Arguments for unanccompanied cello (1993)
- Georgina Sánchez Torres
- Danzas Farrucas 1,2,3,4,5,6
- Improvisación dulce-Canto de Salvación
- Canto antiguo
- Fantasía con sentimiento español
- Homenaje a Boccherini
- Homenaje a Piazzolla-Vivaldi
- Saeta
- Danzas Farrucas 1,2,3,4,5,6
- Ruben Sarkisjan
- Cercio Ceclamando (Cycle of Declamations) for solo cello
(2001)
- Marc Satterwhite
- Witnesses of Time (Four studies on photographs by Flor Garduño) (2003)
- Ahmed Adnan Saygun
- Partita Op. 31 (1954)
- Robert Saxton
- Sonata on a Theme of Sir William Walton (1999) (commissioned by Steven Isserlis
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Triphon (1956)
- Trilogie (1957/65)
- Voyages (1985)
- Maknongan (1976)
- Gerhard Schedl
- Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe (Written for Geringas) (3 min)
- Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach)
- Vermillion Suite (12 min) (1987)
- Suite No. 1 All By Its Lonesome
- Suite No. 2 All By Its Lonesome
- Harold Schiffman
- Sonata Quasi una Fantasia for solo violoncello (5 min) (1977)
- Kate's Suite for Solo violoncello (7 min) (1999)
- Suite from Wake for solo violoncello (10 min) (2004)
- Josef Schillinger
- Dance Suite for solo cello Op.20 (1928)
- Thomas Daniel Schlee
- Three Signs Op. 53 (2002)
- Artur Schnabel (1882–1951)
- Sonata (in four movements) (25 min) (written for Piatigorsky) (1931)
- Alfred Schnittke
- Klingende Buchstaben (Sounding Letters) (1988)
- Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan (1990)
- Improvisation (1993)
- Franz Schubert
- Erlkönig - Le Roi des Aulnes (The Erlking or Elf King) adapted (in 1890) by Bernhard Cossmann
- Gunther Schuller
- Fantasy, Opus 19 (1960)
- Salvatore Sciarrino
- Due Studi (1947)
- Ai Limiti Della Notte (1984)
- Francesco Scipriani (1678–1753)
- Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello e con 12 toccate a solo (12 Toccaten) (ca 1720)
- Ciro G. Scotto
- Introspection (1999)
- Peter Sculthorpe
- Requiem Alone (1979)
- Threnody (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991)
- Into the Dreaming alone (1993)
- Tailitnama Song (1997)
- Anatolijus Senderovas
- Cantus II (written for David Geringas) (8 min) (1993)
- Roger Sessions
- Six Pieces (1966)
- Rodion Shchedrin
- Russian Tunes for solo cello Op.79 (1990)
- Alexander Shchetynsky
- Sonata (2001)
- Bright Sheng
- Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (2 min) (1995)
- Rodion Shchedrin (1932- )
- Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi) Op. 79 (1990)
- Makoto Shinohara
- Evolution (1986–90)
- Alan Shockley
- Abschrift von unbekannter Hand for solo violoncello (2004)
- Jean Sibelius
- Theme and Variations in d minor (12 min) - written in 1887, discovered in 1995.
- Paul Siskind
- Three Epiphanies (12 min) (1987)
- Sergei Slonimsky
- 3 Pieces for solo cello (1964)
- Haskell Small
- Suite
- Dmitry Nikolayevich Smirnov
- Monogram Op. 58A (3 min) (1990)
- Elegy in memory of Edison Denisov Op. 97a (1997)
- Family Portrait Op. 108 (9 min) (1998)
- Postlude in memory of Alfred Schnittke Op. 112A (9 min) (2000)
- Bagatelle Op. 128A (2 min) (2001)
- Saga to S.A. Gubaidulina Op. 130 (7 min) (2001)
- Naresh Sohal
- Monody (3 min) (1976)
- Shades III
- Shades IV (14 min) (1983)
- Giovanni Sollima
- La luna (7 min) (1986)
- 6 Caprices (1987)
- Segno (6 min) (1992)
- Anno uno (8 min) (1993)
- The Songlines (1993)
- Lamentatio (5 min) (1998)
- Pasolini fragments (5 min) (1998)
- Alone (7 min) (1999)
- Øystein Sommerfeldt
- Monologi op. 45,(7 min)(ca. 1976)
- Elizabeth Start
- Union (3 min) (2006)
- Miloš Štědroň (*1942)
- Dances of King Lear (1995)
- Halsey Stevens
- Sonata (five movements - Introduction, Ciaccona, Scherzo, Notturno, Finale) (dedicated to Gabor Rejto) (1958)
- Nikolai Stoikov
Sonata No. 1, Op. 39 (11 min) (1993)
- Mark Summer
- Julie-O
- Viktor Suslin
- Chanson contre raison Sonata (13 min)(1984)
- Schatz-insel (3 min) (1990)
- Robert Suter
- Elegie (11 min) (1969)
- Randall Svane
- Suite No. 1 (1979)
- Suite No. 2 (1982)
- Suite No. 3 for unanccompanied cello (1988)
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