SKU: BT.MUSM570360130
English.
For Violin and Cello. Published 2008. Dedicated to Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Neil Heyde. This music was composed during my DAAD residency in Berlin in October — November 2007. If I were to describe it in one sentence, I would say that it is based on the idea of 'two things seen/heard as one'. a2 (a due) is a well-known term to musicians; it is often found in orchestral scores indicating a given passage that is to be played by two instruments of the same family. Although violin and cello could well be regarded as 'first cousins' of the string family, the literal implementation of the term a2 as a 'compositional strategy' would have been too much (!) for a piece of chamber music consisting of no more than two players. Not surprisingly, this never happens in this work; in fact, the opposite is true: regardless of how it appears on paper (i.e. on one or two staves), the music for each instrument is constantly based on two layers. This musical 'interpretation' of the title gives an indication as to how the textural format of the piece operates. However, this was by no means the only thought that 'preoccupied' my mind whilst composing this music. Berlin made a profound impression on me. The remnants of the wall in Bernauer Straße and the cobbled two-stone line tracing the wall across where it once stood — a clear reminder of what not so long ago there were two different worlds in one city — provoked a strikingly dramatic effect. Border, death-strip, killing, and escape to freedom had a particularly evocative resonance, especially of the time when I lived for three years in a remote town in Southern Albania right at the border with Greece. There, there was a nameless road whose destination the authorities did not want you to know, but the locals called it the 'death-road'. In no way programmatic, in this context, the extra-musical dimension of the principal idea is very much part of the piece. Here, the musical and extra-musical interpretations cannot easily be separated, for they are two parts of the same thing: a2. As if to add another dimension to this idea, there are two versions of this piece: for viola & cello and violin & cello. The first version was premiéred by Garth Knox and Rohan de Saram at the 2008 Intrasonus Festival in Venice..
SKU: HL.49044694
ISBN 9790001197687. UPC: 841886026209. 9.0x12.0x0.183 inches.
An exciting communicative musical journey: These Dialogues have the violin and cello adopting different personalities, temperaments and moods to 'speak' to one another. The titles of the pieces and descriptive headings, such as Chatting, Giggling or Contest, suggest how the pieces may be played.In order to make these ten chamber pieces accessible to students at various different levels, all the duets appear again without markings in the second section of the book, providing an opportunity to experiment with different bowings and fingerings.
SKU: AP.36-52701166
ISBN 9781621569930. UPC: 746241233714. English.
Advanced intermediate, active cello. Works: 1. Sonata VI by Benjamin Carr, 2. Sonatina, Op. 36, 1 and 2 by Muzio Clementi, and 3. Rondo alla Turca by W.A. Mozart.
These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14062
Hungarian-English-German-French.
This volume of the series Music for Beginners contains duos for violin and violoncello, altogether fifteen pieces, among them six items for several parts. They are partly works by Baroque masters, partly by composers of the Viennese Classicism. This volume is recommended for pretentious students after four to five years of serious studies.
SKU: HL.49007021
ISBN 9790001075190. 9.0x12.0x0.063 inches.
SKU: VD.ED96343
ISBN 9790202003435. 11.69 x 8.26 inches.
SKU: KU.GM-1958
ISBN 9790206208720. Key: G minor.
