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

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This study score is based on the score and complete performance material of Dvorák's famous B minor Cello Concerto (BA 9045) edited by Jonathan Del Mar and published in 2011. In addition the study score contains a Foreword by Dvorák scholar Jan Smaczny.Like every other major 19th-century cello concerto, Dvorák's concerto resulted from a collaboration between the composer and a virtuoso musician. Several passages in Dvorák's autograph were written by the cellist Hanus Wihan but Bärenreiter's edition now reveals that some details in the orchestral parts are also in his writing, showing just how closely the two musicians were working together.The editor Jonathan Del Mar has conscientiously examined every available source, including two that have hitherto been either ignored or crucially undervalued. His research has led to a benchmark edition that reconstructs, for the first time since its initial publication in 1896, Dvorák's definitive version of the solo part. It differs from previous editions in practically every measure and hundreds of corrections have also been made to the orchestral parts. - Includes Dvorák's final and definitive version of the solo cello part - Incorporates new discoveries regarding the collaboration between Dvorák and Wihan - With Feuermann's and Casals's alternative versions of a passage in the first movement - Detailed Foreword (Eng/Cz/Ger) / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

Sans raison valable, cinq concertos violoncelles du Pleyel sont éclipsées par les concertos de ses contemporains, notamment par celles de Joseph Haydn. Contributions de Pleyel très originales au genre, cependant, qui sont parmi ses oeuvres les plus intéressantes, captivate une fois de plus l'auditeur par le biais du compositeur inventivité et charmant noblesse musical. Le violoncelliste hongrois Peter Szabó, qui a présenté le célèbre premier enregistrement des concertos de cinq tous sur l'étiquette de Hungaroton en 2003, a édité les concertos de l'édition originale de Simrock, fournissant des éditions critiques avec ses propres cadences. Les scores et le matériel de performance sont disponibles à la location. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre

Le Concerto pour violoncelle Enjott Schneider reprend la légende sumérienne de la divinité oiseau 'Dugud 'dans les scènes archaïques. La légende raconte que la princesse Emeshe a été imprégné par l'hermaphrodite - moitié aigle, moitié faucon - dans un rêve et fonde avec ses Álmos fils, qui avait ainsi été conçus, la dynastie royale hongroise.En images musicales expressives, Schneider décrit la lutte dark-érotique d'imprégnation ainsi que le chant de l'enfant à naître. Planant au-dessus de tout, c'est la vision de la vie en toute liberté comme un oiseau.L'oeuvre a été créée par le violoncelliste hongrois László Fenyö en 2011. Merci à la partition de piano écrite par le compositeur, le travail peut désormais être étudiés et réalisés par un duo. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre