Cello and Orchestra -
Grade 4
SKU:
HL.14043812
Composed
by Thomas Agerfeldt
Olesen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2015.
92 pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH32704.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14043812).
ISBN
9788759836644.
International (more than
one
language).
Cello
Concerto was composed by
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
in 2015. Written to
Nicolas Altstaedt on
commission from Arhus
Symfoniorkester and Die
Duisburger Philharmoniker
with support from The
Danish Arts Foundation
First perfomance in Arhus
Sept 24, 2015. Programme
note: This concerto
contains a lot of
technical and structural
stuff that I have
forgotten all about now.
Without it though, the
piece would have been a
big mess of emotions,
since it was written
while my family and I
were taking care of my
mother as she was
terminally ill. I
recognize it having
become a kind of rondo.
The music wanted a place
to return to, and perhaps
it is due to the fact
that my mother was
alwayssomeone I could
return to when everything
else was exploding. In
the end, the rondo dies
and the music goes
somewhere else, like all
mothers.