Cello and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14023249
Composed by Arne
Nordheim. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 46 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH29746.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14023249).
ISBN
9788759861981.
11.75x16.5x0.45 inches.
English.
Tenebrae
(1982), a single-movement
cello concerto,
commissioned and
premiered by Rostropovich
who praised the composer
for his fine
understanding and command
of the rich timbre of the
instrument. It is a
convincing and almost
nightmarish work
containing music which
leaves a tremendous
impact on the listener.
Not least in the central
section where ghastly and
terrifying apparitions
are invoked out of the
darkness. The final
poetical section of the
work is directly inspired
by the description of the
closing movement of
Leverkuhn's Cantata in
Thomas Mann's Doktor
Faustus.
Thomas Arne
