Three Pieces for Solo Cello (Waterhouse)

Three Pieces for Solo Cello is a composition for cello solo in three sets by Graham Waterhouse, which is dedicated to the cellist Siegfried Palm and was premiered in 1992. The composer, himself a cellist, drawing on the diverse possibilities of his instrument. 1996 won a revised version of the work a composition prize of the Munich Association of Musicians and was included in the Academy of Music in Munich. The work was published in the same year Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag. 2001, the composer played it a for a portrait CD with chamber music.

History

Waterhouse wrote it after his Cello Concerto, Op 27 It was inspired by Siegfried Palm and uses the possibilities of the instrument in chamber music setting. In 1992, the composer at the first time at a workshop with palm in the house Marteau in Lichtenberg. 1996 won a revised version of the third prize in a composition contest of the Munich Association of Musicians and was listed on 29 September 1996 at the awards ceremony at the Munich College of Music. In the same year the work was published in Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, listing the duration of ten minutes.

Phrases and music

The publisher summarizes: " The composer seeks to exploit the most important ways the instrument in the pieces - its large spectrum of expression, its wide tonal range and its various tone colors. In the second sentence, the structure is determined by sul ponticello and in the third set by bell-like pizzicati the left hand. " Hans Krieger writes in the booklet accompanying the CD: " The existential depth of this expression is the most moving experience when the composer, with "his " instrument the cello, converse holds. The Three Pieces ... reach in their rhapsodic gestures a meditative force ... ".

Recording

The work was recorded in 2001 for a portrait CD with chamber music with Cybele, played by the composer, along with music for recorder, clarinet and piano. Hubert Culot wrote in his review: " ... one of the most substantial pieces in this selection is the Three Pieces for Solo Cello Op.28 completed in 1996 and dedicated to Siegfried Palm A short, vivacious and Often whimsical scherzo of Considerable virtuosity. is framed by two weightier, mostly slow and rhapsodic movements of great expressive strength exploiting the full expressive range of the cello. "