Cello
SKU:
HL.14035889
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 9
pages. Music Sales
#KP00672. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14035889).
ISBN
9788759859285.
English-Danish.
I -
Lento
II - Imposante
III - Andante
Programme Note
In my early
television remembrance I
recall a broadcast with
Samuel Beckett, one of
the fathers of the absurd
play and drama. At one
time Beckett looked the
viewer (the camera) in
the eye and said:'What! -
is the Word'. I have not
since been able to forget
it, obviously, having
borrowed this ambiguous
sentence as title for
this short cello sonata.
The fact that
it is conceived as a
unity is obvious from the
fact that the two outer
movements are closely
related. The long,
immediately recognizable
melodic line which
dominates the first
movement appears in the
third movement aswell,
first in an inverted
version and then almost
identical to its original
appearance, only shorter.
In contrast, the
middle movement is a fast
one, constantly and
intensely on the move,
with many changes of
pulse and meters, as well
as large melodic leaps.
And while the outer
movements each are
composed as a single
melodic line, the middle
movement makes extensive
use of the cello as a
polyphonic instrument
employing lots of chords,
double stops and
flageolet effects.
Per Norgard
(2010).
