Cello; Orchestra (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.48024646
Cello
and Orchestra Study
Score. Composed by
Sergei Prokofiev. Boosey
& Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical, Russian.
Softcover. 104 pages.
Duration 2100 seconds.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060134852. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024646).
ISBN
9781784544041. UPC:
888680949105.
7.25x10.25x0.363
inches.
New
edition, with preface by
Gerard McBurney. The work
was composed in 1933-38
for one of the greatest
cellists of the 20th
century, Gregor
Piatigorsky. McBurney
explains that, somehow
this concerto had come to
seem jinxed to the
composer. And when, in
1947, he heard it in
Moscow once again, this
time played by the young
Mstislav Rostropovich, he
decided to recast it
(albeit using much of the
same material) as an
entirely new piece, the
Sinfonia Concertante, op
125. The earlier version
never entirely
disappeared, however,
with a scattering of
cellists always
preferring it to the
later one. And in recent
years, it has found new
favor and new champions,
its spectacularly
difficult cello writing
and virtuosic orchestral
effects offering a
brilliance, pungency and
fascination all of their
own..