SKU: HL.14030113

ISBN 9788759866504. Danish.

Siciliano for Cello solo by Hans Abrahamsen (2000). Siciliano can be played as a piece by itself, but it can also be played together with the cello pieces Hymn and Storm and Still as Sonate for cello solo. Then it should be like this in the programme: Sonate for cello solo (1988-2000) I. Hymn (=WH30250) II. Storm and Still (WH30241) III. Siciliano Commissioned by and dedicated to Morten Zeuthen.

SKU: HL.14008538

The Cello Skole is a long starting Cello method from the 1960s but one that still has much merit. It has brought much success for over a quarter of a century helping improve the intonation and technique of young players. This elementary level teaches everything from holding the instrument and playing first notes to repertoire pieces and performance definitions. The theory level is kept to a minimum and elements are taught in a straightforward way while the selection of repertoire pieces are varied and interesting to keep beginners interested. Volume One of this Danish and Norwegian language Cello Tutor will help give a basic understanding of theory and technique and will improve your level from just starting to play first pieces. This item is also of note for those with an interest in historical tutors.

SKU: HL.14043277

ISBN 9788759830987. International (more than one language).

Niels Rosing-Schow 's 2014 piece Views From A High Place for solo Cello. Version B. The work 'Views from a High Place' is a rhapsodic piece revisiting characteristic solo passages from both of my Cello concertos. The different musical 'views' share the instrument's high register as the point from which there is a view. Version B was written for the Danish String Players Contest 2014. - Niels Rosing-Schow.

SKU: HL.14043753

ISBN 9788759836804. English.

Sonata For Cello No.2 - In Due Tempi by Per Norgard . 'Solo in scena' was composed in 1980 as a second and complementary movement to my one-movement cello piece of 1953, »,Solo intimo«,. The two works form a two-movementsonata 'in due tempi', the two movements uniting after 27-years. Each movement can also be performed separately.Per Norgard.

SKU: HL.14043813

ISBN 9788759888087. English.

This is the Solo Part for Cello Concerto by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen (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.

SKU: HL.14043478

8.0x11.75 inches.

Kevin Volans ' A Short Walk In The Gardens Of Solitude For Solo Cello (2007).

SKU: HL.14018372

UPC: 840126969849. 11.75x16.0x0.059 inches.

Composed in 1960 and revised in 1994, this wonderfully lyrical solo Sonata offers a substantial challenge to the performing Cellist. The piece has a three-part structure, with a lively and playful central Scherzo flanked by two exciting Allegro movements, with melodic material that ranges from a clipped pizzicato to a rapid tremolo. A superb showcase that explores the full range of the instrument.

SKU: 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).

SKU: HL.14028929

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller, with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy, nostalgic, a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book, at its simplest, is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for all its musical material to become distorted, either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning', a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in, the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece, I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific, this change of heart doesn't really matter. ~ David Blake.