Par ADES THOMAS. Co-commandé par le Festival d'Aldeburgh, au Wigmore Hall et au Carnegie Hall. Il est premier spectacle a été donné par Steven Isserlis et Thomas Adès à l'Hôtel de Snape Maltings Concert dans le cadre du Festival d'Aldeburgh, le 21 Juin 2009. / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

On The Fiddle consists of three pieces derived from scores to three Peter Greenaway films. The first piece Full Fathom Five is a version of the Shakespeare song setting made for Prospero'sBooks (1990).The second Angelfish Decay is an arrangement of an arrangement: the music for the speeded up time lapse decaying animal sequences in A Zed And Two Noughts (1985) was written for twoviolins and a harpsichord. This was subsequently 'reduced' to a violin solo for Zoo Caprices (1986). For On The Fiddle a piano part has been added.The final piece Miserere Paraphrase was writtenfor use in The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover (1989) and is a transcription of Nyman's setting of the 'Miserere' text (Psalm 51) sung in the film by a boy soprano and mixed chorus.This version for celloand piano written in 1997. Duration c.15 mins.

This piece was originally composed in 1989 with a new version created in 2002 commissioned by cellist Kate Dillingham and premiering in April 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.