Chester-Music - Cello

SKU: HL.14010203

Piece for solo cello is in three sections. The work starts with an almost inaudible tremolo on a low E and then states a few motifs which are repeated and developed throughout, in a fragmented manner and appearing in different orders. The music returns to a loud low tremolando E at the end, and once again fades into nothing. Piece was written in 1970 and first performed by Thomas Igloi at the Holborn Public Library, London, that year. The work was revised in February 2021.

SKU: HL.14017469

UPC: 884088812041. 8.5x11.0x0.419 inches.

Composer's Note When I considered the ensemble of eight cellos, I first thought of matt and dark textures. I also wanted to go back to some ideas on symmetry. While I was pondering all that, I saw snow flakes falling from the dark sky of the Finnish autumn. Focusing on the snow, the idea of writing variations on it and its various forms became clearer in my mind.Nuages de neige is a uniform and linear texture in which I realise my first impressions of that ensemble. The two Etoiles de neige are based on the idea of symmetry and repetition: the first one develops up to a certain point where it doubles back as in a mirror image, the second one consists of eight sections in which the harmonic structure is repeated, as well as a linear gesture that becomes ever more present. Aguilles de glace focuses on different pizzicati and superimposed ostinati. With Fleurs de neige I sought to recall the texture of those harmonic trills at the end of the first section, although more airy and diversified here. Kaija Saariaho.

SKU: HL.14033877

ISBN 9780711953116. 8.25x11.75x0.14 inches.

Tortelier's Cello Book Two covers twelve more Classical and folk pieces arranged for Cello in first position, with accompaniment for second Cello or Piano. Contains classics from masters like Bach, Mozart, andSchubert, and traditional tunes from France, Norway, and Israel. Edited and arranged by the French cellist and composer Paul Tortelier.

SKU: HL.248688

UPC: 888680729080. 9x12 inches. English.

“Gordon Wright was the friend of a lifetime. For thirty years Gordon and I shared our two greatest passions: music and Alaska. Gordon was my musical collaborator, my next-door neighbor, my fellow environmentalist and my camping buddy. These miniatures are musical sketches of three moments and places in our friendship. Like Alaska, Gordon was larger than life. He always lived his own way. And he died just as he would have wanted. We found him lying on the deck of his cabin in the Chugach Mountains, curled up against his favorite birch tree, looking across the waters of Turnagain Arm toward the Resurrection Valley and the tiny settlement of Hope.” - John Luther Adams

This music contains no normal stopped tones. All the sounds are produced as natural harmonics or on open strings. There are no harmonics higher than the sixth. So these sounds should be clear and resonant. Even so, balancing the harmonics with the open strings requires careful attention.

The durations of the individual pieces are given at the end of each.

The total duration of the set is about ten minutes.

SKU: HL.235975

8.25x11.75x0.07 inches. English.

This work was commissioned by Meidan Festivaali, Sounds from a Safe Harbour and National Sawdust.

SKU: HL.14010200

UPC: 884088837112.

“Elutropia is a Gemme, in colour greene, or grassie, in part coloured and bespotted with Purple speckes & bloud coloures vaines. This is a marvellous Jugler, for it will cause things object to be presented to our eies as it listeth. It being put into a Basan of water chaungeth to a mans eyesight the Sunne his beames, and giveth them a contrarie colour. Being also moved and beaten in the ayre maketh to appeare a bloudie Sunne, and darkneth the ayre in the maner of an Eclipse: and therfore it is called Eloutropia as you would say, the Sunne his enimie. There is of this name also a certain Hearbe which Enchaunters & Witches have oftentimes used and doe use, as also that above said, whereby they have mocked and deluded many, which by meanes and working and enchauntment, have so dazzled the beholders eies, that they have gone by them invisibly.” John Maplet (died 1592) A greene forest, or A natural historie 1567 This text from the clergyman, astrologer and natural historian John Maplet's fascinating work in which he describes the properties of various gemstones is the inspiration for this piece. Without being programmatic, the music is constantly developed to try and mimic the way the shafts of light mutate through the gem, and the illusions and magic they create.

SKU: HL.14043347

9.5x14.25x0.046 inches.

Esa-Pekka Salonen's YTA III for solo Cello. This work was written for Anssi Karttunen, who gave the first performance at the Musiikin aika Festival, Viitasaari, Finland, on 23rd July 1987.