In the Four Pieces op. 33 for four violoncellos, Julius Klengel presents a gallery of programmatic genre tableaux song without words, lullaby, march in a casual sequence that reflects the tradition of the 19th century, and is topped off by a Baroque gavotte. The pieces are arranged so as to provide an alternation between slower and faster tempi, whereby no extreme tempi are called for. As regards their technical requirements, the four parts are treated relatively equally. The pieces offer the fo...