SKU: BT.MUSAM990660
ISBN 9781847721006.
Ten playalong arrangements of classic symphonic themes for Cello. Experience the thrill of playing complete movements with a full orchestral backing!
SKU: 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.
SKU: HL.250608
UPC: 888680908195. 9.0x12.0x0.4 inches. English.
The theme of this work is man & machine, as commissioned by Michael Nicolas. The theme is represented in that the Cellist becomes both in the piece man & machine where man indicates performing expressively with emotion, and a musical approach to the music, and machine indicates more precise rhythmic and technical accuracy, a somewhat stricter approach to the music. These two approaches gradually transition from one to another throughout the work. Anna Thorvaldsdottir frequently works with large sonic structures that tend to reveal the presence of a vast variety of sustained sound materials, reflecting her sense of imaginative listening to landscapes and nature. Her music tends to portray a flowing world of sounds with an enigmatic lyrical atmosphere.
SKU: HL.48010854
UPC: 073999876154. 8.25x11.75x0.051 inches.
Various ensemble performances are possible using one first part with second violin, viola, cello and/or piano. The first string parts duplicate the melodic material Contents: Menuetto and Trio (Mozart) * Ballet Music (Schubert) * A Pair of Hornpipes (Traditional) * Watchman's Song (Grieg) * Siciliana (Stanley) * Variations on a Russian Theme (Beethoven) * Waltz (von Weber) * Bonnie Dundee Variations (Nelson) * Rigaudon 1 (Rameau) * Rigaudon 2 (Rameau).
SKU: PR.UE037194
ISBN 9783702474911. UPC: 803452072027.
Commissioned by the 1991 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition (Paris) and dedicated to Universal Edition director Alfred Schlee on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Originally for solo violin, Anthemes I is presented in a transcription for solo cello. Although the transcriber is unknown, it is known that Boulez approved.
SKU: HL.14042177
ISBN 9781780388700. 9.0x12.0x0.205 inches.
Collection of original works created as anonymous gifts for the renowned Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen. Includes works by 31 composers, including: Pascal Dusapin, Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steven Stucky, Tan Dun, and others.
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