Cello and Orchestra SKU: HL.14028003 Cello Concerto No. 1. Compose...(+)
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.
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.