Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. This enchanting 8-minute piece for violin and piano - Oliver Knussen's penultimate work - is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion: a six-note mode reflected in its complement: and the relationships between the three main parts of the piece, which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water, too, the work's opus number (31a) demonstrating a relationship to Knussen's unfinished Cleveland Pictures: 'The main melody began as a response to Gauguin's painting of a Breton woman swimming', Knussen wrote, 'and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely underwater world of an ondine, eventually breaking the surface at the end of the piece.' / Niveau : Avancé / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. O Hototogisu! is presented here as a typeset score with two facsimile pages from the composer’s manuscript. This exquisite ‘fragment of a Japonisme’ – premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute and ensemble of 23 players – proved to be Oliver Knussen’s final work. The 8-minute piece couches seven exquisite haiku settings in richly evocative music which incorporates signals from Japanese theatre (particularly Kabuki). It concerns the Hototogisu (or Lesser Cuckoo), a bird widely invoked in Japanese haiku poetry of the 17th-19th centuries, where the poet listens for its arrival from the mountains both as a harbinger of summer and a voice from the land of the dead. / Scores / Répertoire / Soprano, Flûte Traversière et Ensemble De Chambre

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. Study for “Metamorphosis” for solo bassoon was composed by Oliver Knussen in the early 1970s but was withdrawn and later revised by the composer in 2018. Two earlier versions of the piece exist: an incomplete copy of the work’s earliest incarnation – entitled Study in Metamorphosis and dated 1972 – and a revised version from 1973, which uses the current title.   / Instrumental Music / Répertoire / Basson

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. 'Knussens wastes not a note, and though the work lasts only for seven minutes, its density of thought suggests something of sonata structure.'Paul Griffiths, Musical Times, January 1981/ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. The study score for Knussen's Violin Concerto Op.30 , composed in 2002 by commission from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The piece was first performed by Pinchas Zukerman with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh in April 2002./ Répertoire / Conducteur

A practice guide for the modern cellist. Par SHERRY FRED. A Grand Tour of Cello Technique is a thought-provoking practice guide, enabling cellists at all levels to develop their own style through an exploration of different ways of fingering and bowing. The book not only helps cellists improve their playing, but also promotes an understanding of musical art, through nine stimulating chapters. With a particular emphasis on music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and its connections with earlier music, Fred Sherry takes the reader on a voyage of discovery of the art and science of cello technique, informed by music ranging from Bach all the way through to Berio.Fred Sherry has introduced audiences on five continents and all fifty UnitedStates to the music of our time for more than five decades. He has had close working relationships with Charles Wuorinen, Lukas Foss, Oliver Knussen, Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Toru Takemitsu, Chick Corea, Pierre Boulez, Mario Davidovsky and others whose works he has premiered and recorded. He has been soloist and 'sideman' on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings: his discography ranges from Schütz, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms through Schoenberg and Stravinsky to the 20th and 21st century works written for him. He is a member of the cello faculty of The Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. A Grand Tour of Cello Technique is a thought-provoking practice guide, enabling cellists at all levels to develop their own style through an exploration of different ways of fingering and bowing. The book not only helps cellists improve their playing, but also promotes an understanding of musical art, through nine stimulating chapters. With a particular emphasis on music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and its connections with earlier music, Fred Sherry takes the reader on a voyage of discovery of the art and science of cello technique, informed by music ranging from Bach all the way through to Berio. Fred Sherry has introduced audiences on fivecontinents and all fifty United States to the music of our time for more than five decades. He has had close working relationships with Charles Wuorinen, Lukas Foss, Oliver Knussen, Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Toru Takemitsu, Chick Corea, Pierre Boulez, Mario Davidovsky and others whose works he has premiered and recorded. He has been soloist and and lsquo - sideman and rsquo - on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings - his discography ranges from Sch and uuml - tz, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms through Schoenberg and Stravinsky to the 20th and 21st century works written for him. He is a member of the cello faculty of The Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. / Pédagogie / Etude / Violoncelle

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. '. . .fresh as paint in its firing of a melodic line that just goes on in a kind of angular strain, shuttled from one instrumental colouring to another.'Paul Griffiths, The Times, 12 February 1991/ Répertoire / Conducteur

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. '. . .creates a shimmering tapestry of sound that ranges satisfyingly wide within a brief-span - a fine display piece for conductor and every section of the orchestra.'The Guardian, 17 September 1988/ Répertoire / Conducteur