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

Seule partition au monde à porter le numéro ISBN 9790520011976 cette partition dont le titre est CONCERTO N. 2 IN RE MAGGIORE (G. 479) PER VIOLONCELLO E ORCHESTRA D'ARCHI comporte des morceaux regroupés et composés par le compositeur Boccherini Luigi.Son instrumentation exacte est Violoncelle Et Orchestre A Cordes. Amateur ou passionné de Classique vous trouverez inévitablement votre bonheur dans la version papier de cette oeuvre. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre A Cordes / Partition

Cello Concerto No. 1-Poul Ruders Polydrama (Manyfold Event) for cello and orchestra is the last part of a drama trilogy otherwise consisting of Dramaphonia' for piano and 11 instruments and Monodrama for percussion and 32 instruments. In this abstract drama the individual listener is left entirely to his own associations. The composer has compared polydrama with the gradual defoliation of a big tree: the vigorously growing organism is attacked by a swarm of locusts until finally nothing remains but bare branches in a landscape of long shadows; a solitary singing bird remains however like a streak of hope in an increasingly dark and pessimistic universe.

La confrontation d'un instrument à cordes soliste et d'un grand orchestre d'harmonie est sans doute une gageure risquée, Aussi le compositeur a-t-il été particulièrement attentif au dosage des masses sonores dans cette oeuvre, Le lyrisme généreux du violoncelle se mêle harmonieusement aux grappes de couleurs sonores des instruments à vent dans les deux mouvements liminaires - dans le mouvement central seulement le soliste semble devoir être écrasé par la masse de l'orchestre, mais à la fin de l'oeuvre c'est lui seul qui a le dernier mot, - Couleurs, ombres, lumières (07'00'')- Duel (07'30'')- Espaces des songes (05'30) Conducteur - ref, DLT2366Matériel - ref, DLT2366ESoliste - DLT2385 / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

La confrontation d'un instrument à cordes soliste et d'un grand orchestre d'harmonie est sans doute une gageure risquée, Aussi le compositeur a-t-il été particulièrement attentif au dosage des masses sonores dans cette oeuvre, Le lyrisme généreux du violoncelle se mêle harmonieusement aux grappes de couleurs sonores des instruments à vent dans les deux mouvements liminaires - dans le mouvement central seulement le soliste semble devoir être écrasé par la masse de l'orchestre, mais à la fin de l'oeuvre c'est lui seul qui a le dernier mot, - Couleurs, ombres, lumières (07'00'')- Duel (07'30'')- Espaces des songes (05'30) Conducteur - ref, DLT2366Matériel - ref, DLT2366ESoliste - DLT2385 / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

Après Altius (1999) pour violoncelle et 16 instruments et Huit à l'infini (2001) pour octuor de violoncelles et orchestre, Horizons réflexes est ma troisième oeuvre de nature concertante écrite pour le violoncelle.Au début de la composition de cette pièce, dédiée à Gary Hoffman et commandée par le festival Automne en Normandie, j'avais à l'esprit l'idée quasi picturale d'un paysage étrange, constitué de lignes se développant horizontalement et de verticalités presque régulières qui se rencontrent, se trouvent, se dérobent ou se métamorphosent.Non seulement le vers du poète Alexis Pelletier 'Un matin, je fus saisi par l'évidence des horizons réflexes' m'a donné l'idée du titre de la pièce, mais il m'a également permis de conceptualiser la plastique sonore que je souhaitais développer au long des six sections enchaînées que compte cette composition.Dans la plupart de mes oeuvres concertantes - et c'est de nouveau le cas dans Horizons reflexes, le soliste devient la 'voix supérieure' d'une matière sonore en mouvement prolongée par un orchestre 'résonateur' qui sait aussi se montrer éloquent. (...)Dominique Lemaître / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

e minor-Edward Elgar's concerto for violoncello his last major work is a cleanly structured and emotionally charged composition. It is no wonder that this work is of central importance in the cello literature. Jonathan Del Mar's editorial skills show themselves in the exacting placement of dynamics articulation and expression markings.The edition restores all Elgar's solo cello fingerings and bowings and offers a facsimile of the original solo cello part in the critical commentary. Jonathan Del Mar also documents the performing tradition of the work and its recording under Elgar's baton. This is the last word on this famous work a reference edition for everycellist!First ever critical editionAll existing sources consultedFirst ever critical commentary'I highly recommended this purchase even if you own a well-worn copy of another edition.'(American String Teacher vol. 56 No. 3 August 2006)'Ownership of this fine masterly authoritative and elegantly printed edition coupled with the fascinating Critical Commentary must be obligatory for all cellists!'(ESTA News

Op. 65 in G Major-This concerto by Georg Goltermann is one of the easiest of the eight solo concerts he wrote for this instrument. Drawing closely on famous predecessors such as Robert Schumann's A minor Concerto his piece captivates the listener with a rich vein of melody an expansive and elegiac slow movement and a wittily amusing Allegro presto as a finale. The publication is a revised and updated edition in which the existing Dowani recording has been augmented with a new piano reduction and the solo part has been supplied with fingering marks.

from Mass-Selections from Bernstein's theatre piece Mass arranged for solo cello with a piano reduction of the original orchestral score.