"CELLO SERENADE" CD NOTES 1. SPANISH SERENADE, OPUS 54#2 is one of six dances for cello and piano written by the well-known Bohemian cellist and composer, David Popper (1843-1912), who taught at the Conservatory in Budapest. Popper taught Schiffer, who taught Starker, who taught me. My first teacher, Peter Howard, introduced this piece to me, and my arrangement is based on a performance of Maurice Gendron. This type of showpiece often appeared in 19c salon concerts, and Popper would always perform several during his programs. This Serenade was one of the first pieces recorded by any cellist, the Belgian cellist Horace Britt. 2. ANDALUCIA, (SUITE ESPANOLA), whose tunes form the basis for the popular song “The Breeze and I,” was written by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963) in 1928. It has been transcribed and re-arranged many times since, by Richard Hayman, Walter Beel er, Paul Yoder, and Merle Isaac, to name a few. 3. APRES UN REVE (AFTER A D...