30 JANUARY 2007 / CHAMBER
Cello Sonata
- Movement I
- Movement II
- Movement III
- Movement IV
NOTES
I spent the better part of a year writing this cello sonata while living in Dunedin, New Zealand and studying with Anthony Ritchie at Otago University. The piece is very passionate, intense, and romantic. The cello writing reflects a lot of late romantic era cello writing. The harmonic material is largely tonal in nature but pushes traditional harmony to its very edge. I hadn’t yet heard the music of Pavel Haas, or Benjamin Frankel, or Graznya Bacewicz but in retrospect I think this piece manipulates harmony in ways that these composers did. At this time I was also playing a lot of gamelan music which I think also had a large effect on the music.
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Cello, Jono Squire
Piano, John Van Buskirk
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