Par JARRELL MICHAEL. Composition works like an arborescent structure. At each ramification you choose a path, which depends on the whole dynamic of the whole piece. Doing this, you leave quite a lot of ideas and fragments behind. Nachlese is a german term already used by Goethe for the idea of 'reading again', referring to, commenting something... The idea of this cycle (Nachlese) is to come back to some musical ideas which I liked and found interesting, but were inappropriate in a different context and to develop them in new directions. When choosing a title I like it to refer to different techniques used in the piece, but also very directly to what is heard at some moments. For instance, in the first movement the orchestra 'emerges' from the very fast and nervous line played by the soloist and then, later, the 'climax' of this movement 'emerges' from the fast line then played by the orchestra. This piece is dedicated to Jean-Guihen Queyras and Thierry Fischer. / contemporain / Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre

Cello Concerto was composed by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen in 2015 (rev. 2017) - 'To the memory of my mother'. Written to Nicolas Altstaedt on commission from Aarhus Symfoniorkester and Die Duisburger Philharmoniker with support from The Danish Arts Foundation First perfomance in Ã…rhus Sept 24 2015. Programme note: This concerto contains a lot of technical and structural stuff that I have forgotten all about now. Without it though the piece would have been a big mess of emotions since it was written while my family and I were taking care of my mother as she was terminally ill. I recognize ithaving become a kind of rondo. The music wanted a place to return to and perhaps it is due to the fact that my mother was always someone I could return to when everything else was exploding. In the end the rondo dies and the music goes somewhere else like all mothers.

Farewell to philosophy. Par BRYARS GAVIN. I have a great fondness for the lower string instruments: I am a bass player, my mother is a cellist, as are both my daughters; my own ensemble includes two violas, a cello and a bass, and for the instrumentation of my opera Medea I omit the entire violin section from the orchestra. As I have written a number of works for solo instrument or voice with orchestra I welcomed the opportunity to write a concerto for cello and orchestra and especially one which focuses particularly on the instrument’s lyrical qualities. Although the piece is in one continuous movement, and the soloist is playing almost without a break, it nevertheless falls into distinct sections which are recognisable by a shift of tempo as well as by a change in the music’s character. One of the early ideas Julian Lloyd Webber and I discussed was that it might form a companion piece to one of the Haydn concertos. Given my friendship with some members of the English Chamber Orchestra and my awareness of their repertoire, this suggested a number of particular musical references. The subtitle to the work, for example, combines the subtitles of two idiosyncratic Haydn symphonies and I allude to them in different ways but chiefly through orchestration: for The Philosopher by including a section in the concerto where the orchestration resembles that of the symphony’s first movement (pairs of English and French horns, muted violins and unmuted lower strings); for The Farewell, by the progressive reduction in the orchestration towards the end. Indeed, apart from the orchestral tutti in the last few bars, the last pages of the score are virtually for string quartet. The subtitle also refers to my own background as a philosophy graduate... The piece was commissioned by Philips Classics for Julian Lloyd Webber and is dedicated to him. The first performance was given by Julian Lloyd Webber and the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by James Judd, 21 November 1995, Barbican Hall, London. Gavin Bryars/ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre

Original Version. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Cet hommage de Tchaïkovski à l'excellent exemple admiré de Mozart et un défi pour le violoncelliste solo: ' Rokoko-variations ', dont le thème suit de près le style de musique du XVIIIe siècle, exige un maximum d'accomplir et brillance technique de la violoncelliste solo. Les variations sont connectées musicalement par orchestrales ritournelles qui, en matière de musique et de la substance, presque forment une deuxième séquence de variations./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre

Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) was greatly influenced by his contemporaries Ravel Debussy and Roussel yet implemented his own unique style. His Cello Concerto Tout Un Monde Lontain is considered to be one of the most important 20th century additions to the instrument's repertoire. This Dutilleux Concerto comprises five movements which run seamlessly in to one-another each inspired by the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. The movements are: 1) Énigme (Enigma) 2) Regard (Gaze) 3) Houles (Surges) 4) Miroirs (Mirrors) and 5) Hymne (Hymn). Tout Un Monde Lontain was first performed in July 1970 by Russiancellist Mstislav Rostropovich with the Orchestre de Paris. Dutilleux's Tout Un Monde Lontain remains popular to this day and including the entire orchestral score this edition is essential to the advanced cellist's repertoire.

Par RODRIGO JOAQUIN. Tabea Zimmermann a été présenté les six mouvements de ce travail qui exploite les possibilités de l'alto au maximum - à partir de la lyrique à double-stopping chromatique explosive. Incorporant Eastern folktunes européen, polyphonie abstraite ainsi que des fragments de subtiles répétées de forme sonate, c'est une version miniature de la cosmologie musicale vaste de Ligeti. Bien que virtuose de la pièce est idiome-atic et de l'artisanat exquis et artifice. Un must pour les joueurs de toutes les avancées./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre

Désormais bien connue pour son virtuose mais très engageant par écrit pour solo instruments avec orchestre, Magnus Lindberg ici tour à tour son attention sur le violoncelle. Le concerto, datant de 1997-99, est 'dans un style très tendu qui se déplace à un quickstep à travers toutes les possibilités de l'instrument' (magazine Diapason). Elle a été enregistrée par Anssi Karttunen avec le Philharmonia Orchestra dirigé par Esa-Pekka Salonen, pour Sony. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

De style, le concerto de Naples a été découvert en 1986 est proche de la célèbre concerto en Bb majeur - c'était probablement créée en même-temps. La publication éditée soigneusement offre le texte original. L'indication de la partie solo et la cadence sont faites par Julius Berger. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

De style, le concerto de Naples a été découvert en 1986 est proche de la célèbre concerto en Bb majeur - c'était probablement créée en même-temps. La publication éditée soigneusement offre le texte original. L'indication de la partie solo et la cadence sont faites par Julius Berger. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

In Latin Anima means soul but it is also a Jungian expression for the female element of the male. Anima forms the first part of a nameless trilogy of solo concertos which emphasizes reflective moods. In this cello concerto it is mainly the melodic aspect that is in the foreground a bitter-sweet but always gentle song for cello.