Cello
SKU:
HL.48025250
For
Solo Cello. Composed
by Detlev Glanert. Boosey
& Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover.
Duration 300 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202537169.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025250).
UPC:
196288142942.
The
composer and conductor
Oliver Knussen (1952 -
2018) was loved by many
companions for his
generosity and musical
intellect. To Detlev
Glanert, whose works he
loved to perform, he was
a friend and one of his
'personal heroes'. By his
own admission, he learned
attention to detail from
'Olly', with whom he
worked at Tanglewood as
early as 1986. If
Glanert's Trumpet
Concerto, composed in
2018, is the large-scale
symphonic homage to his
role model, the solo
“Little Letter to
Olly†does the same
in a small format. Two
elegiac adagio sections
frame a boisterous presto
with all kinds of
virtuoso tricks. The
'Letter without Words'
owes its existence to a
suggestion by the cellist
Anssi Karttunen, who
asked for commemorative
pieces for Knussen's 70th
birthday from a number of
composers and premiered
them at the Aldeburgh
Festival 2022.
