A Frieze and A Litany
for Solo Cello
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SKU: PE.EP73059
For Solo Cello. Composed by Piers Hellawell. Cello (Solo). Edition Peters. Score. 12 pages. Duration 8. Edition Peters #98-EP73059. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP73059).ISBN 9790577013619. 232 x 303mm inches.
Program note:
This set of two related pieces for solo cello takes its title from the poem Man of Assynt by Norman MacCaig. It was written for Robert Irvine as part of his UNICEF solo cello project in 2015, and was premiered by him on 22nd October 2016 in Migvie Church, Aberdeen.
Tempi throughout are fluid, unmarked and unhurried. A Litany requires a tuning-fork, preferably one with tubular ‘limbs’ rather than those with square edges. The player is required to change from arco to the tuning-fork and back, a transition covered by l.h. pizz. open strings, which can be repeated ad lib. during the change. For the tuning-fork tremolo passages, the two prongs of the fork are ‘scissors’ either side of the portion of string – first beyond the bridge (from tail toward bridge), then on the C string, from bridge toward finger-board. The most even tremolo is needed.
Piers Hellawell, 2017
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