Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14029172
Composed
by Gerard Schurmann.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Music Sales
#NOV890181. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14029172).
ISBN
9780853607519.
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em>Gerard Schurmann
(b. 1924) is a Dutch
contemporary composer,
who was born in the Dutch
East Indies and lived in
England from childhood,
before setting in the USA
in 1981. His orchestral
works span 5 decades, and
he remains in demand for
commissions today.
The single-movement
Cello Concerto
The Gardens of
Exile was first
performed by the
Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra in March 1991.
It received immediate
critical acclaim, with
one reviewer calling it
an extraordinarily fine
and imaginative
composition. It features
a tense orchestral build
up before the Cello
enters, gradually
emerging from the texture
and taking control of the
music. Asignificant
contribution to the
repertoire, this study
score is published by
Novello.