This collection offers some of Verdi’s best-known pieces, suitable for both the professional and the student, arranged for cello and piano by Giacomo Fossa, while the cello part has been curated by Sandro Laffranchini, first cello of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala.

It includes pieces that Verdi expressly composed for cello, such as the “Preludio” from I masnadieri, the “Scherzo” from the String Quartet in E minor, the solo from “Ella giammai m’amò”, and the “Divertissement” from Nabuc...