Original Version. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered
In her first Urtext edi...(+)
Original Version. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered
In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann?s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 ? a piece he actually called a ?Concertstück? ? removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer?s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków. This Full Score matches the separately available edition for Cello and Piano (EP 73488). Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher.
Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann?s original 1850 manuscript Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions Critical Commentary Cello and piano edition available separately from Edition Peters: orchestral parts available for rental Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton
Robert Schumann?s tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann?s original conception of the work ? not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never heard the piece performed. In an effort to promote a performance of the work, he gave the score to the cellist Robert Emil Bockmühl. Bockmühl made revisions that Schumann resisted, and the hoped-for performance never happened. Schumann?s health failed and he died aged just 46 in 1856. The Concerto, in an already substantially revised form, was premiered in 1860 but it was not given significant recognition until it was championed by Pablo Casals in the 20th century by which time (and since) the text for the work had accreted additions and alterations from generations of soloists.
Now Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London has returned to the original 1850 manuscript of the work, which is in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków, to reveal Schumann?s original thoughts for the first time in a modern Urtext edition. The edition reflects Schumann?s original conception of the work as a Concertstück and restores Schumann?s musical text, free of posthumous interventions.
?My ultimate wish,? says the editor, ?is to give performers both access to, and confidence that they are playing from, an edition which is a true representation of the piece in its original form, no matter how much more difficult this might be. I found that incorporating the changes enabled the piece to take on a completely different character ? one that is lighter and happier, even ?cheerful?, as Schumann himself described the work.'
Farewell to philosophy. Par BRYARS GAVIN. I have a great fondness for the lower ...(+)
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
Un hommage de Tchaïkovski à l'excellent exemple admiré de Mozart et un défi ...(+)
Un hommage de Tchaïkovski à l'excellent exemple admiré de Mozart et un défi pour le violoncelliste solo: ' Rokoko-variations ' dont le thème suit de près le style de musique du XVIIIe siècle exige un maximum d'accomplir et brillance technique de la violoncelliste solo. Les variations sont connectées musicalement par orchestrales ritournelles qui, en matière de musique et de la substance, presque forment une deuxième séquence de variations. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre
Cello Concerto was composed by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen in 2015 (rev. 2017) - 'To...(+)
Cello Concerto was composed by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen in 2015 (rev. 2017) - 'To the memory of my mother'. Written to Nicolas Altstaedt on commission from Aarhus Symfoniorkester and Die Duisburger Philharmoniker with support from The Danish Arts Foundation First perfomance in Århus Sept 24 2015. Programme note: This concerto contains a lot of technical and structural stuff that I have forgotten all about now. Without it though the piece would have been a big mess of emotions since it was written while my family and I were taking care of my mother as she was terminally ill. I recognize ithaving become a kind of rondo. The music wanted a place to return to and perhaps it is due to the fact that my mother was always someone I could return to when everything else was exploding. In the end the rondo dies and the music goes somewhere else like all mothers.
Cet ouvrage est un hommage à Lorca dont le dernier recueil de poèmes (Divan du...(+)
Cet ouvrage est un hommage à Lorca dont le dernier recueil de poèmes (Divan du Tamarit) peut apparaître, a posteriori, comme une prémonition de sa propre mort. Les neuf Casidas, qui en composent la seconde partie, sont autant de visions désespérées ou amères que Maurice Ohana imagine peuplant la mémoire du poète tout au long de la route de la Fontaine aux larmes qui fut son chemin de croix. Mots et images tournent autour du condamné, anneau qui l'encercle, l'emprisonne, mais aussi le protège à l'heure ultime. L'ouvrage est d'un seul tenant, les séquences s'enchaînant comme autant de visions tour à tour sombres, violentes, déchirantes, dépouillées ou tragiques, en un poème de la mort qui rejoint, après vingt-cinq années, cet autre poème de mort qu'était le Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. / Contre-ténor et ensemble
This is one of the best Cello concertos of the twentieth century and readily co...(+)
This is one of the best Cello concertos of the twentieth century and readily communicates the Bohuslav Martinu strong feelings for his homeland. Written over the Christmas and New year period of 1944-45 in New York it is full ofhis reactions to that last dramatic winter of the war and the desire to go home. It is an expansive work over 35 minutes in length in the standard three movements. Typically for Martinu the first movement is inModerato tempo. The opening gesture is highly characteristic: A pulsing rhythm establishes itself in the orchestra and a striving rising theme with a contradictory rhythm contends with it. The second movement Andante pocomoderato has a general pulse that is not much slower than that of the first. It is episodic with a faster central section and then a truly magical and heartfelt treatment of the main subject in which Martinu expresses hislonging for home. The final movement Allegro is a driving energetic conclusion with a solo cadenza that breaks the ongoing rhythm and provides a touching moment of contemplation before the joyous conclusion. This editioncontains a Piano reduction of the Orchestral part for rehearsal purposes.
Cello Concerto No. 1-Poul Ruders Polydrama (Manyfold Event) for cello and orches...(+)
Cello Concerto No. 1-Poul Ruders Polydrama (Manyfold Event) for cello and orchestra is the last part of a drama trilogy otherwise consisting of Dramaphonia' for piano and 11 instruments and Monodrama for percussion and 32 instruments. In this abstract drama the individual listener is left entirely to his own associations. The composer has compared polydrama with the gradual defoliation of a big tree: the vigorously growing organism is attacked by a swarm of locusts until finally nothing remains but bare branches in a landscape of long shadows; a solitary singing bird remains however like a streak of hope in an increasingly dark and pessimistic universe.
Par JARRELL MICHAEL. Composition works like an arborescent structure. At each ra...(+)
Par JARRELL MICHAEL. Composition works like an arborescent structure. At each ramification you choose a path, which depends on the whole dynamic of the whole piece. Doing this, you leave quite a lot of ideas and fragments behind. Nachlese is a german term already used by Goethe for the idea of 'reading again', referring to, commenting something...
The idea of this cycle (Nachlese) is to come back to some musical ideas which I liked and found interesting, but were inappropriate in a different context and to develop them in new directions.
When choosing a title I like it to refer to different techniques used in the piece, but also very directly to what is heard at some moments. For instance, in the first movement the orchestra 'emerges' from the very fast and nervous line played by the soloist and then, later, the 'climax' of this movement 'emerges' from the fast line then played by the orchestra.
This piece is dedicated to Jean-Guihen Queyras and Thierry Fischer. / contemporain / Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre
Version Of The Cellist Wilhellm Fitzenhagen. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Un ho...(+)
Version Of The Cellist Wilhellm Fitzenhagen. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Un hommage de Tchaïkovski à l'excellent exemple admiré de Mozart et un défi pour le violoncelliste solo: ' Rokoko-variations ', dont le thème suit de près le style de musique du XVIIIe siècle, exige un maximum d'effectuer et de brillance technique de th/ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre
Original Version. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Un hommage de Tchaïkovski à l'...(+)
Original Version. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Un hommage de Tchaïkovski à l'excellent exemple admiré de Mozart et un défi pour le violoncelliste solo: ' Rokoko-variations ' dont le thème suit de près le style de musique du XVIIIe siècle exige un maximum d'accomplir et brillance technique de la violoncelliste solo. Les variations sont connectées musicalement par orchestrales ritournelles qui, en matière de musique et de la substance, presque forment une deuxième séquence de variations./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre
Original Version. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Cet hommage de Tchaïkovski à l...(+)
Original Version. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Cet hommage de Tchaïkovski à l'excellent exemple admiré de Mozart et un défi pour le violoncelliste solo: ' Rokoko-variations ', dont le thème suit de près le style de musique du XVIIIe siècle, exige un maximum d'accomplir et brillance technique de la violoncelliste solo. Les variations sont connectées musicalement par orchestrales ritournelles qui, en matière de musique et de la substance, presque forment une deuxième séquence de variations./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Orchestre
Désormais bien connue pour son virtuose mais très engageant par écrit pour so...(+)
Désormais bien connue pour son virtuose mais très engageant par écrit pour solo instruments avec orchestre, Magnus Lindberg ici tour à tour son attention sur le violoncelle. Le concerto, datant de 1997-99, est 'dans un style très tendu qui se déplace à un quickstep à travers toutes les possibilités de l'instrument' (magazine Diapason). Elle a été enregistrée par Anssi Karttunen avec le Philharmonia Orchestra dirigé par Esa-Pekka Salonen, pour Sony. / Violoncelle Et Orchestre
Between - Cello Concerto No. 1 - 3 movements for Violoncello and Orchestra comp...(+)
Between - Cello Concerto No. 1 - 3 movements for Violoncello and Orchestra composed by Per Nørgård in 1984-85. Premiered by Frances-Marie Uitti and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Schönwandt August 30th 1985. Programme note: 1. In Between 2. Turning point 3. Among The title of each movement suggests one aspect of the relationship between soloist and orchestra. In the first movement the solist is caught up in a conflict between the expression of inner feelings (solo) and influences from external sources (orchestra) the latter of which the soloist in a simple accompanyingrole but after a turning point in the middle of the movement the soloist assumes a dominating role. In the final movement a balance is finally achieved with the soloist at last being on equal terms with the orchestra. Per Nørgård
In Latin Anima means soul but it is also a Jungian expression for the female ele...(+)
In Latin Anima means soul but it is also a Jungian expression for the female element of the male. Anima forms the first part of a nameless trilogy of solo concertos which emphasizes reflective moods. In this cello concerto it is mainly the melodic aspect that is in the foreground a bitter-sweet but always gentle song for cello.
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