Violoncello - Level 5 SKU: BA.BA11071 Composed by Matthias Pintscher. In ...(+)
Violoncello - Level 5
SKU: BA.BA11071
Composed by Matthias
Pintscher. In a folder.
Part II of the cycle
Profiles of Light.
Performance score.
Composed 2015. 4 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA11071_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA11071).
ISBN
9790006562015. 42 x 29.7
cm
inches.
“Now
II†is the second
part of a triptych of
chamber pieces entitled
“Profiles of
Lightâ€. The first
part is written for solo
piano (Now I, BA 11073),
the second for
unaccompanied cello. The
two instruments are then
combined in the
concluding third part,
Uriel (BA
11013).
All three
pieces were inspired by
the Abstract
Expressionist paintings
of the American artist
Barnett Newman. Newman's
work has had a formative
impact on Matthias
Pintscher's artistic
philosophy: what does it
mean to reduce things to
essentials while seeking
maximum immediacy of
expression? Several of
Newman's paintings have a
radiant light of uncommon
intensity, yet resembling
a dark illumination. The
same sort of thing is
found in the late works
of Franz Schubert, where
a comparable profundity
and retrospective
yearning likewise shine
through the surface of
even the brightest
tonalities.
This
is a piece about
resonances, about the
inward and outward givens
of existence, about life
itself: 'I find the cello
a highly suitable
instrument for depicting
such existential
conditions'.
Cello SKU: HL.48025036 For Solo Cello. Composed by Brett Dean. Arr...(+)
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.
Violoncello - Level 5 SKU: BA.BA11043 A Song without Words for Violonc...(+)
Violoncello - Level 5
SKU: BA.BA11043
A Song without Words
for Violoncello Solo.
Composed by Manfred
Trojahn. Stapled.
Performance score.
Composed 2012. 4 pages.
Duration 10 minutes.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA11043_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA11043).
ISBN
9790006543229. 33.5 x
25.5 cm
inches.
Manfred
Trojahn on the origin and
title of his impressive
virtuoso solo
work: Admittedly I do
not know if he had
seagulls, but since
Mendelssohn was born in
Hamburg, he will not have
gone through life without
at least the impression
of the cry of seagulls.
Nor do I know if seagulls
played any part in his
life in Rome. I myself
was astonished when, one
or two years ago in the
Villa Massimo, I was, not
exactly annoyed but
disturbed by the strong
rhythmical cry of
seagulls. I was just
about to write a bassoon
solo when the seagulls
started. Then the
idea came to me that
precisely this sequence
of notes could serve as
the basis of the work.
And the sequence for the
bassoon solo is, in turn,
the basis of the piece
for violoncello - this is
how titles are born... Of
course the violoncello
meanders with virtuosic
ease from the seagull
motif to the 'elf-like'
skittering brought to
music by Mendelssohn and
used time and again in
his compositions, finally
becoming a cabaletta.
Now, cabalettas are not
very representative of
Mendelssohn, but as I was
composing I definitely
wanted to put a cabaletta
in this passage. I am
sure Mendelssohn and I
will easily agree on
this, especially since
later justice is done to
him in the rapid passages
and, of course in the
tonal cadenza at the very
end, which is more
indicative of his time
than of mine ... isn't
it?
Instrumental Play-Along(r) Series. Composed by Various. Instrumental Play-Alon...(+)
Instrumental
Play-Along(r)
Series. Composed by
Various.
Instrumental Play-Along.
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Softcover Audio Online.
Published by Hal Leonard