Searching for cello or chamber music based on legends/myths/fairy tales...

[cello007]

Hello, esteemed members of the Good Music Guide forum!

I am interested in putting together several recital programs of solo or chamber music that feature or involve the cello in (program) music that was directly based off of or influenced by a legend, myth, fairy tale....

So far, I have:

Pohadka by Janacek
Othmar by Maria Newman
Elegy: Snow in June by Tan Dun
Casanova by Johann de Meij (admittedly not a chamber work, but perhaps I can at least mention its existence)



Any tips, recommendations, or ideas will be very very much appreciated!!

[Scion7]

SCHUBERT-Der Erlkoenig (transcribed for cello & piano) http://www.metzlerviolins.com/schubert-franz-(cossmann)-%3Ader-erlkoenig-transcribed-for-cello-and-piano/dp/15935

ARNOLD BAX-Folk Tale, for Cello & Piano (Composed in the aftermath of the executions following the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916) 

BERLIOZ-Dream of a Witches' Sabbath , (cello arrangement) http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0139575

MARSCHNER-Der Vampyr (string quartet arrangement)  IMSLP331602-PMLP66166-levampiroperaend00mars_arr_praeger_4str.pdf

JODY NAGLE-Bedtime Stories (for Oboe/English Horn & Double-Bass) play the db part on cello? (based on Greek mythological monsters)

JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL-Beethoven's Prometheus Ov. (arranged for Cello, Flute, Piano, Violin)

... I will update as I look through composition lists. Smetana and Dvorak both had takes on the 'water sprite' myths but so far I can't find a reduction for cello and/or chamber, which is too bad.

[cello007]

Very cool finds, Scion7! I'm listening to some of the Bax right now.. it's really beautiful. And, I actually know Jody Nagel and have performed some of his trios so I'll be happy to look into "Bedtime Stories."   I'll keep checking back.

[Florestan]

Paul Constantinescu - Baladă haiducească (Ballad of the Haiduc*)

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajduk

https://www.youtube.com/v/orDMq2QjFWQ

unfortunately, incomplete