Cello and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14028003
Cello Concerto No.
1. Composed by Poul
Ruders. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30292. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028003).
ISBN
9788759862896.
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.
