Cello and orchestra SKU: FG.55011-608-5 Variaatioita sellolle ja orkes...(+)
Cello and orchestra
SKU:
FG.55011-608-5
Variaatioita sellolle
ja orkesterille op 5.
Composed by Aulis
Sallinen. Score. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-608-5.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-608-5).
ISBN
9790550116085.
Auli
s Sallinen (b. 1935) is
one of the most famous
Finnish contemporary
composers. In his early
instrumental works,
Sallinen was still
seeking to establish a
style of his own. He had
studied at the Sibelius
Academy in the late
1950s, first with Aarre
Merikanto - a composer
representing a national
brand of Neoclassicism -
and then with Joonas
Kokkonen, at that time
just transitioning from
Neoclassicism to
dodecaphony. Twelve-tone
music had won fairly
widespread acceptance in
contemporary Finn-ish
music, and Sallinen was
influenced, too. The
Variations are Sallinen's
first real work for the
cello - an instrument
that would later be one
of his favourites, its
warm, deep voice
corres-ponding to his
music's often dark
undercurrent.
The Variations for Cello
and Orchestra, Op. 5 were
composed in 1961-1962 and
premiered in October
1962. The basic motif
consists of a set of
three descending
intervals stated by the
cello at the beginning:
D-D flat-F, C-B-G and B
flat-A-F sharp. Their use
as basic material is a
ref-lection of the
composer's
dodecaphony-oriented
period, and variation of
this material provides
the framework for the
piece.
Variations for Cello and
Orchestra are now
published for the first
time. Available are a
reduction for cello and
piano, study score and
complete performance
material with
orchestra.
Violin and orchestra (solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 - 2.2(or 2corn).0.0 - timp - str) SK...(+)
Violin and orchestra
(solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 -
2.2(or 2corn).0.0 - timp
- str)
SKU:
BR.PB-15155
Urtext. Composed
by Camille Saint-Saens.
Edited by Peter Jost.
Orchestra; stapled.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
In
Cooperation with G. Henle
Verlag
Solo concerto;
Romantic; Late-romantic.
Full score. 40 pages.
Duration 9'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #PB 15155.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-15155).
ISBN
9790004215609. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Many
well-known violinists
such as the dedicatee
Pablo de Sarasate,
together later with
Eugene Ysaye and Jacques
Thibaud, included in
their repertoires Camille
Saint-Saens' concert
piece composed in 1863.
Even today, concert life
is hard to imagine
without the Introduction
et Rondo capriccioso. The
highly virtuosic work
already inspired critics
and audiences during the
composer's lifetime;
reported about the
premiere in 1867 was: The
Introduction and the
Rondo capriccioso for the
same instrument are both
original and charming,
and Maestro Sarasate, who
was in his element here,
admirably made the most
of it. And a few years
later, a music critic
described the work as a
kind of fantasy waltz in
the Spanish style and
with a most bewitching
effect. After the first
performances in 1867,
despite success, the
work's score and
orchestral parts had
little chance of
publication due to
concert companies'
reluctance. In 1869 the
Paris publishing house G.
Hartmann merely published
an arrangement for violin
and piano produced by the
composer's friend Georges
Bizet. The orchestral
score and parts were
first published after the
Paris publishing house
Durand had acquired
publication rights in
1875. The present edition
published in
collaboration with the G.
Henle Verlag is the first
critical edition of the
work.