Cello
SKU:
HL.48025036
For
Solo Cello. Composed
by Brett Dean. Arranged
by Zoltán Szabó.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. 8 pages.
Duration 600 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202535646.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025036).
UPC:
196288020813.
The
piece was commissioned by
a colleague Brett Dean of
the Berliner
Philharmoniker, the
violist Walter Kussner,
as part of a CD project
with works for solo viola
in 1998/99. Since then,
the composer himself has
played it himself
countless times in
concerts andlectures.
Here it is now in a
congenial adaptation for
cello. The title Intimate
Decisions comes from a
painting by Dean's wife,
theAustralian painter
Heather Betts, and
indicates the private
nature of the music.
According to Dean,
writing a piece for a
solo string instrument
was strangely similar to
writing a personal letter
or an intense
conversation with a close
friend. The piece begins
with a short series of
individual intervals of a
rather intangible
character, followed by a
more emphatic motif of a
minor sixth and minor
ninth, and later a chain
of harmonies whirring
down the lower strings.
The various developing
characters go through an
increasingly decisive,
ultimately dramatic
conversation, in
rhapsodic alternation
with flighty virtuosity,
but also calm and
delicacy, only to fade
away like an echo at the
end.
