Philip Glass: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (Cello part): Other Strings:

Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (Cello part). Philip Glass?s Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra was composed in the spring of 2010 as a commission from the Netherlands Dance Theater, premiered by the Hague Philharmonic (Residentie Orkest) conducted by Jurjen Hempel on April 22, 2010 with violinist Cecilia Bernardini and cellist Maarte-Maria den Herder.

Philip Glass was approached by timpanist Jonathan Haas to write a timpani concerto for himself nearly ten years before Glass was finally able to get down to it. The timpani concerto ‘grew up’ into a double concerto for twotimpanists and nine timpani in total in three movements with a pair of cadenzas which are usually added onto the third movement. As is often the case with Glass’s music this is a propulsive noisy piece with some unusualperformance instructions e.g. at one point the timpanists set their sticks aside and play bare-handed.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and hehas created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

Partie de Violon. Par GLASS PHILIP. Philip Glass?s Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra was composed in the spring of 2010 as a commission from the Netherlands Dance Theater, premiered by the Hague Philharmonic (Residentie Orkest) conducted by Jurjen Hempel on April 22, 2010 with violinist Cecilia Bernardini and cellist Maarte-Maria den Herder. / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Répertoire / Violon et Violoncelle