8 Intermediate-Level Tango Classics. Par DIVERS AUTEURS (ARR.COLLATTI DIEGO). Authentic tango classics arranged as duets of medium difficulty for 2 cellos - this edition includes the famous tunes of some of the greatest tango compositions the world has ever heard. Tango is full of life and passion - the fact that this love affair of music and rhythm has not lost any of its fascination is demonstrated these classic tango pieces that have been selected for this collection and arranged for two cellos. When Astor Piazolla, Vicente Greco, and Angel Villoldo meet in an edition of tango classics, entertainment and expertise of the highest level are sure to ensue. In addition to one of his own compositions, arranger Diego Collatti has selected some of the most popular tango tunes to be arranged for two cellos, among them 'Libertango', 'El Choclo' and 'A media Luz'. Collatti, who is considered an expert in Argentine tango, has brilliantly and expressively highlighted the two violin parts, which have been essential elements of the tango tradition since its beginning. The duets' characteristic phrasing opportunities combined with their dynamic shading and diverse articulation enhance their value as entertaining concert pieces and deeply authentic ensemble repertory additions. Melancholic tunes, rhythmic precision, and untamed passion can be found in this stylistically diverse collection, the compositional art of which showcases the full emotional range of the tango tradition. - Engaging tango classics by Astor Piazzolla, Vicente Greco, Agostín Bardi, and many other tango composers, selected and arranged by Argentine tango expert Diego Collatti - The clearly structured instrumental parts communicate with each other and remain true to the originals in their range of articulation and dynamics - The stylistic variety, expressiveness, imagination and multicultural influences of the genre are wonderfully combined in this collection / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Recueil / 2 Violoncelles

Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The commission was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music. My music has a substantial history with Daedalus. I composed the Third String Quartet (2008) for them, and subsequently they performed my three string quartets on several occasions and recorded them brilliantly on Bridge Records (Bridge 9352: Music of Fred Lerdahl, vol. 3). Chaconne is in one movement lasting 19 minutes. It is effectively my fourth string quartet. Quartets 1-3 form a unified cycle lasting 70 minutes. When I finished the cycle, I thought I would never write again for the medium; yet I could not resist the opportunity of working again with Daedalus. The issue was how to compose another string quartet unrelated to the earlier cycle. The solution came from my solo cello piece There and Back Again (2010), which was based on a four-bar variation pattern from a 17th-century chaconne. Unlike the asymmetrical phrases and expanding variations of much of my music, the chaconne form requires symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. I wished to work again with these symmetries but on a larger scale. Chaconne also differs in character and expression from the three-quartet cycle. The cycle is inward and intense, a kind of psychological excavation. Chaconne is, for the most part, transparent and playful. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not completely unlike the rounds that children sing. Any composer who writes in chaconne form (one thinks above all of the last movement of Bach’s D minor violin partita and the finale of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony) is confronted with the challenge of how to create a larger form out of a constantly repeating pattern. My Chaconne grows from paired antecedent-consequent phrases, each variation lasting eight bars. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation, with subtle parallel connections across the rotations. Notwithstanding my attraction to chaconne form, I purposefully disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape. Fred Lerdahl/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par MURAIL TRISTAN. Une Lettre de Vincent, pour flûte et violoncelle, est la pièce la plus récente ici (2018). Elle fait partie du cycle Portulan, un cycle de pièces de musique de chambre en cours d'élaboration, qui comporte actuellement huit pièces, écrites pour diverses combinaisons instrumentales parmi un ensemble de huit musiciens. Les portulans étaient d'anciens atlas maritimes, souvent ornés d'enluminures, qui traçaient les côtes et indiquaient les repères principaux au navigateur médiéval alors dépourvu de boussole. Chaque pièce du cycle se réfère à quelque chose, lieu, voyage, lecture, expérience esthétique, de particulière signification pour moi. Le point de départ de la Lettre de Vincent est un souvenir d'enfance : un livre que l'on m'avait offert, sur Van Gogh, où, en plus de reproductions de ses oeuvres, on pouvait trouver quelques-unes des lettres qu'il écrivait à son frère Theo, qui lui envoyait régulièrement de l'argent, des toiles, des couleurs. J'avais été très impressionné, et ému, autant par la peinture, que par le contenu de ces lettres, à la fois naïf, poignant, suppliant, parfois désespéré, souvent assez décousu, sautant d'une idée à l'autre. Beaucoup plus tard, j'ai retrouvé ces lettres, en particulier un petit opuscule contenant les dernières lettres, celles qu'il écrivit depuis Auvers-sur-Oise, pendant les derniers mois de sa vie, et ces émotions d'enfance sont revenues. La pièce débute par un court motif de quatre notes, qui évoque les mots 'Mon cher Theo', par quoi commencent toutes les lettres de Vincent. Ce motif va se transformer tout au long de l'oeuvre, et se mêler à divers autres éléments - en particulier des échanges très rapides entre harmoniques de flûte et de violoncelle, selon la technique dite de hoquet, métaphore d'une technique picturale chère à Van Gogh, qui consiste en l'accumulation de petites touches de peinture. J'habite aujourd'hui dans cette Provence que Van Gogh avait choisie pour y trouver sa palette colorée. Certains soirs, la pleine lune se lève derrière les grands cyprès du jardin... Tristan Murail, CD Metier Une rencontre/ Répertoire / Flûte Traversière et Violoncelle

The Italian cellist Lucio Amanti devotes himself to the crossover between classical and jazz music. His well-known 'Jazz Suite' for cello solo bridges the gap between the solo suites by Bach and the jazz music of our time.Now he attends for the first time to the subject of the étude, with suggestions from pop, jazz and improvisation. The individual études use different styles from jazz ballad to samba rhythms to funk music. / Violoncelle

Par DAVIES TANSY. Nature, Tansy Davies gloriously offbeat concerto for piano and ten instruments from 2012, teems with invention. This 20-minute work was inspired by shamanic rituals and the supernatural, and Davies describes the piano as part moth, part Maenad . There is a feral quality to much of the tumultuous solo writing all hyperactive trills and gutsy bass eruptions, shot through with rare and unexpected moments of calm. Brilliantly imaginative, and packed full of glistening, ever-changing ensemble textures, this remarkable reimagining of the concerto form sees Davies craft yet another thrilling and wholly distinctive soundworld. ARRANGEMENT Piano and ensemble of ten players: Alto Flute, Cor Anglais, Bass Clarinet, Horn, Percussion (1 player), Harp, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass. / Scores / Répertoire / Piano et Ensemble De Chambre

Pratique - ou pratiquer la pratique ? Gerhard Mantel trouve de nouvelles, parfois même des réponses peu orthodoxes à la vieille question de la façon d'exercer la profession. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur décrit les aspects variés de mentales, psychologiques et physiques de l'aventure de ' pratiquer ', alors qu'il tentait en même temps, d'une manière très diversifiée, de rendre les problèmes individuels instrumentales accessible et sont donc disponibles au besoin d'expression artistique spontané. Dans un nouveau chapitre de l'édition revue et augmentée, l'auteur traite le sujet de ' reliant ': musculaire ou mentale de lier deux notes, reliant spatiale sur la touche et reliant à l'intérieur du corps. / Violoncelle

Par CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO MARIO. Born into a family of bankers that had lived in Florence since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) studied under Pizzetti at the city' s Conservatoire. He soon became one of the leading members of the young Italian school, which broke with the tyranny of bel canto to return to the instrumental tradition of the Italian masters from the Baroque era. In 1928, Amédée-Landély Hettich, a vocal teacher in Paris, asked Castelnuovo-Tedesco to write a vocalise for the Répertoire moderne de Vocalises-E tudes, the publication of which he was supervising at Leduc. Castelnuovo-Tedesco' s contribution, entitled Vocalise-E tude for Medium Voice, became so popular that it was immediately transcribed several times over. The present adaptation for cello and piano, was created, with prior consent from the composer, by the famous Catalan cellist Gaspar Cassadó in 1930. The works opens with a poignant lamento that grieves the tragic fate of the Jewish people- it is followed by a folk dance whose ' brisk and stubborn” movement marks, with panache, an imperious refusal to yield to resignation. The composer adopted the same proactive stance himself when in 1939, fleeing Mussolini' s antisemitic laws, he decided to emigrate to the United States, a land of refuge to which he would remain faithful until his death some thirty years later./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano