Antonio meneses cello claudio cruz violin composer. Instrumentation cello, piano extra information originally intended as a movement of the cello sonata, op. The wonderful young cellist natalie clein has been a familiar name since winning the bbc young musician of the year competition in 1994. Kodaly, zoltan sonata for cello and piano, op 4 edited.
I believe there is a sonata for cello and piano and a few chamber pieces. I kinda didnt think about it for a while until a friend i met who happened to play the cello to told me that her cello was called gravity. In some six chamber pieces, he achieved a striking synthesis of the principles developed by bach, the forms passed down by the masters of the viennese school, the harmonic experiments of the romantic period and the newly. However, it is in the public domain in canada where imslp is hosted and other countries where the term is lifeplus50 years such as china, japan, korea and many others worldwide. It was first performed in 1918 and published in 1921.
Since then, she has pursued a distinguished career performing with the most celebrated orchestras and conductors around the world. Sonata, op 8 cello solo universal edition shar music. Recorded during 3 concerts in january 2010, stockholm. His friends sonata had nothing to do with what was old and german, but rather it was contemporary and hungarian.
Francis jean marcel poulenc 7 january 1899 30 january 1963 performers. This score is notated as if the bottom two strings were really cg. A cello sonata is usually a sonata written for solo cello with piano accompaniment. Name translations, sonate pour violoncelle et piano n. The company has pioneered the idea of the series and proudly includes series of such composers as prokofiev, tchaikovsky, parry, walton, grainger, berkeley and bridge. Which edition of the kodaly cello sonata should i buy. This is the first and second movement of my cello sonate adagiovivace mm71. This deliberately altered tuning, or scordatura, enables rich harmonic possibilities. Mstislav rostropovich, cello and dmitri shostakovich, piano. Jri recordings j112 two sonatas for solo cello the present recording is little less than phenomenalutterly mesmerizing in its impact, insight and thrilling virtuositynancy green has the true measure of this taxing and elusive work, laying bare its muscularity and intellectual cogency in a reading of colossal presence and impulsea brilliant achievement.
Cello sebastian baverstam sonata in b minor for solo cello, op. It contains influences of debussy and bartok, as well as the inflections and nuances of hungarian folk music. She has also made a number of recordingsgenerally concentrating on the most popular cello repertoire. All notes played on the 3rd or 4th strings will actually show not the actual sound but the placement of the fingers in their usual position and will therefore sound a 12 step lower than printed in the score. This is not a mere imitation of bachs polyphonic style. In this piece, kodaly music talent can be described as reveal undoubtedly, the in up to half an hour playing cello all playing skills are included in a piece of works, more important is to the deep cello music gives new artistic vitality, of which the flashing a hungarian folk cheerful elements of dance and music rhythm, which makes a cello. Chandos records is one of the worlds premier classical music record companies, best known for its ground breaking search for neglected musical gems. He taught himself how to play it when he was a student. Six talented composers have created short solo cello pieces inspired by the 1915 koda.
Zoltan kodaly free sheet music to download in pdf, mp3. Zoltan kodaly, sonata in b minor for solo cello, op. However, it is in the public domain in canada where imslp is hosted and other countries where the term is lifeplus50 years such as china, japan, korea and many. Iii, performed by sebastian baverstam bach brandenburg concerto no.
When i had just started learning cello about 5 years ago, my cello teacher told me i needed to give my cello a name at some point. The new works are scored for the same altered tuning used by koda. Schnittkes cello sonata is a virtuoso display piece. Allegro molto vivace, zoltan kodaly recording engineer feri bong mixing and mastering engineer edvard lee videographer. Dohnanyi, kodaly, janos starker concert piece for cello and orchestra sonata for solo cello. The piece is at times dramatic, melancholy, exuberant, and haunting. The most famous romanticera cello sonatas are those written by johannes brahms and ludwig van beethoven. The hungarian composer zoltan kodaly wrote his sonata in b minor for solo cello, op. The cello often doubles as soloist and orchestra, bowing long melodic lines while simultaneously plucking rhythmical accompaniments. We talked about it and my cello is now called alma. Scores at the international music score library project imslp. Pdf sheet music for viola, violin, cello and other strings. Lp, album, club world record club, world record club. Since becoming a professor of composition at budapests royal academy of.
He displayed elegant formal grasp and structural sophistication in his two string quartets and sheer passion and epic sweep in the violin cello duo 1914. This sonata was considered too modern by many at the time of its premier, though it also prominently features folk themes. Kodaly wrote his sonata for solo cello during world war i, significantly one of the first compositions for solo cello since bach. Cello sonatina kodaly, zoltan it is very unlikely that this work is public domain in the eu, or in any country where the term is lifeplus70 years. His friends sonata had nothing to do with what was old and german. Zoltan kodaly s sonata for violoncello and piano, opus 4 1910 was composed along with his violin sonata op. This musical work impresses everybody by the welllistened dialog between intonations of cello player and piano and different character musical features. Kodaly solo sonata, jakob koranyi cello jakob koranyi. His first published works in each of the other major canons of. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were written in the 18th century by francesco geminiani and antonio vivaldi the following list contains cello sonatas with or without. This sheet music has been placed in the public domain by the typesetter, for details see.
This theme passes, piano, to the violin and then transforms into a gentler tranquillo version illustrated with a pizzicato accompaniment. Meneses tackles two peaks of the solo cello repertoire musicians. It is among the most significant works for solo cello written since johann sebastian bachs cello suites. All these works show a great originality of form and content, a very interesting blend of highly. Rich with the folk atmosphere for which kodaly is known, friend and composer bela bartok championed the work, stating, here he is expressing, with the simplest possible technical means, ideas that are entirely. But above all towers the amazing, ardent, pugnacious sonata for solo cello 1915, the greatest utterance in this most demanding of genres since j s bachs solo cello suites. In 1915, when kodaly wrote a substantial sonata for solo cello, bartok commented. Scordatura was presented in 2015 in a solo concert tour around the united states and canada.