Cello and Orchestra SKU: HL.14023249 Composed by Arne Nordheim. Music Sal...(+)
Cello and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14023249
Composed by Arne
Nordheim. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 46 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH29746.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14023249).
ISBN
9788759861981.
11.75x16.5x0.45 inches.
English.
Tenebrae
(1982), a single-movement
cello concerto,
commissioned and
premiered by Rostropovich
who praised the composer
for his fine
understanding and command
of the rich timbre of the
instrument. It is a
convincing and almost
nightmarish work
containing music which
leaves a tremendous
impact on the listener.
Not least in the central
section where ghastly and
terrifying apparitions
are invoked out of the
darkness. The final
poetical section of the
work is directly inspired
by the description of the
closing movement of
Leverkuhn's Cantata in
Thomas Mann's Doktor
Faustus.
Cello and Orchestra SKU: HL.14020990 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies...(+)
Cello and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14020990
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Composed
1999. 80 pages. Chester
Music #CH58933. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14020990).
ISBN
9780711923904.
5.5x7.5x0.283
inches.
If Davies's
Cello Concerto has
already evoked
comparisons with Elgar's,
that is perhaps an
indication not only of
its wealth of solo melody
(there is hardly a page
where the cello is not
singing, or if not that,
then dancing), and of its
predominantly slow
tempos, but also of its
musical stature. This
second Strathclyde
concerto is a virtuoso
piece for the entire
ensemble, which is used
almost throughout as a
clutch of soloists rather
than as a tutti block.
The general tone is one
of passionate but
interior dialogue,
especially in the opening
Moderato and the slow
movement; and though the
finale is more extrovert,
the work ends back in
quietness and
rumination.