Here is his Concertinoin A Major, Op.72 for 2 Cellos, performed by cellists Oren Shevlin and Johannes Wohlmacher with the WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Reinhard Goebel:

1928

Arthur Cunningham

(11 November 1928 – 31 March 1997)

American composer

Here is his “This is dying” performed by flutist Elizabeth Plunk and cellist Rachel Young:

1956

Vedran Smailović

Happy birthday!

Bosnian and Northern Irish cellist and conductor, known as the “Cellist of Sarajevo”

Photo by I Evstafiev, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Here he plays “Oh Danny Boy”:

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