Repertoire (selection)
| Cello solo | |
|---|---|
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 6 suites for cello solo BWV 1007–1012 (1720) |
| Max Reger | 3 suites op. 131c (1915) |
| Henry Cowell | For Unaccompanied Cello (1919) |
| Hans Werner Henze | Serenade (1949) |
| Gunther Schuller | Fantasy op. 19 (1951) |
| Benjamin Britten | 1st suite op. 72 (1964), 2nd suite op. 80 (1967), 3rd suite op. 87 (1972) |
| Sofia Gubaidulina | Ten Preludes (1974) |
| Luciano Berio | Le mots sont allés (1978) |
| Beat Furrer | Frau Nachtigall for cello solo (1982) |
| Chamber music | |
|---|---|
| Joseph Haydn | 83 string quartets, among them the Russian quartets (op. 33 Hob.III: 37–42), (1781) |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Prussian quartets K. 575, 589, 590 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | sonatas for cello and piano op. 5 (1796) sonata for cello and piano A-major op. 69 (1808) |
| Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | sonatas for cello and piano op. 45, op. 58 |
| Johannes Brahms | sonatas for cello and piano e-minor op. 38 (1865) and F-major op. 99 (1886) |
| Edward Grieg | sonata for cello and piano op. 36 |
| Gabriel Fauré | Elegie c-minor op. 24 |
| Claude Debussy | sonata for cello and piano |
| Dmitri Shostakovitch | sonata op. 40 (1934) |
| Alfred Schnittke | sonata (1978) |
| Cello concertos | |
|---|---|
| Joseph Haydn | 2 concertos for cello and orchestra C-major and D-major Hob.VIIb:1, VIIb:2 |
| Luigi Boccherini | 10 concertos for cello and orchestra |
| Robert Schumann | concerto a-minor op.129 (1850) |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | concerto for cello and orchestra op. 33, op.119 |
| Edouard Lalo | concerto for cello and orchestra d-minor (1876) |
| Johannes Brahms | double concerto for violin, cello and orchestra (1887) |
| Antonín Dvořák | concerto for cello and orchestra b-minor op. 104 (1895) |
| Aram Khatchaturian | concerto-rhapsody (1963) |
| Dmitri Shostakovitch | concertos for cello and orchestra op. 107 (1959) and op. 126 (1966) |
| György Ligeti | concerto for cello and orchestra (1966) |
| Witold Lutosławski | concerto for cello and orchestra (1970) |
| Alfred Schnittke | concerto for cello and orchestra (1986) |
| Strings in the orchestra, string orchestra | |
|---|---|
| Antonio Vivaldi | concertos, Le quattro stagioni (The four Seasons) op.8 |
| Georg Friedrich Händel | Concerti grossi |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | suites for strings |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Eine kleine Nachtmusik for strings |
| Piotr I. Tchaikovsky | string serenade (1880) |
| Edvard Grieg | Peer Gynt suites op. 46 (1888) and op. 55 (1891) From Holberg´s time op. 40 (1885) |
| Samuel Barber | Adagio for strings (1936/38) |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasy on a theme by Thomas Tallis |
| Béla Bartók | Divertimento for string orchestra Sz 113 / BB 118 (1940) Music for stringed instruments, percussion, and celesta Sz 106 / BB 114 (1937) |
| Witold Lutosławski | Musique funèbre (Funeral music for Bartók) for strings (1958) |
| Alfred Schnittke | Concerto grosso Nr.1 (1977) sonata |
| György Ligeti | Ramifications for 2 string orchestras |