Cello

SKU: HL.14028929

Composed by David Blake. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120425. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028929).

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller, with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy, nostalgic, a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book, at its simplest, is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for all its musical material to become distorted, either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning', a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in, the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece, I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific, this change of heart doesn't really matter. ~ David Blake.

For Unaccompanied Cello. By Michael Colgrass. For Cello. Premiered bny cellist Ronald Thomas on February 17, 1976 in the Young Concert Artist Series in New York City. Classical. Solo part. 16 pages. Duration 17:00. Published by Carl Fischer.

Cello

SKU: PE.EP68766

Composed by Christian Wolff. Cello Solo Book. Classical; Contemporary. Book. 8 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP68766. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP68766).

ISBN 9790300762760.

Each of these five movements for solo cello uses a different technique to extend the performer's control over various dimensions of the music. The composer writes:

There are five pieces. In the first, second and fifth there are phrase sequences with free pauses between them. There are also notations for just dynamics (sounds free), and for just rhythms (free sounds). The third and fourth pieces are on grids of 6 x 6 and 8 x 8 bars, allowing continuities to be chosen in variously free ways.

The fifth piece, consisting of a series of passages that may be performed in any sequence, may also be played as a cello duo, with the second cellist playing a different sequence.

The Anton of the title is the dedicatee, cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, who gave the world premiere of this suite at St James' Church, Islington, London on September 21, 2018. This performing edition is a facsimile of the composer's autograph manuscript. At moderate tempi, the total duration of the work may be approximately 15 minutes.

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(cello or contrabass). By Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Edited by Hans Chr. Wolff. For strings. This edition: cello or contrabass. Deutscher Verlag fuer Musik. Individual part, Urtext. 20 pages

Don Giovanni/Cosi fan tutte/Titus/ nach Opernmelodien. By Wolfgan Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Franz Danzi. Cello. For 2 celli. Level: 3. 54 pages. Published by Doblinger (Austrian import).