Word: cellos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening began with Period Piece by Anthony Brandt. Written for flute, cello, percussion and piano, the work featured a variety of sounds for each instrument. The piece was at times contemplative and at times frenzied, using a wide range of pitches and dynamics. The soft flute was mournful and beautiful, complemented well by the winding and rumbling cello and piano. The different percussion sounds blended into the ensemble at certain moments and provided dramatic punches at other times. The thickly layered timbre and palpable rhythmic texture made for an intense listening experience, topped off with a burst of sound...
...tone music does not use a hierarchy of pitches and chords. The music configures and reconfigures arrangements of all 12 notes in a scale throughout any given piece. The result is a seemingly unpredictable array of sounds that are highly structured and self-reflexive. The piece--for violin, cello and piano--paired soft, slow sections with furious fortes. The instruments seemed to communicate with each other while establishing a fascinating harmonic tension...
...lost most of its taboos against divorce, it will take unusual commitment, flexibility and loyalty (perhaps fortified by a religious vow) to stick it out. Couples who endure to celebrate their golden anniversaries "will have mastered marriage," says Dychtwald. "It will be like mastering the violin or the cello...
...Royal Cello...
...GREAT CATALAN CELLIST PABLO CASALS is rightly credited with elevating the cello to its royal status as a solo instrument, so it is only fitting that Pearl records pays him homage by beginning its six-CD set, The Recorded Cello: The History of the Cello on Record, with his evocative 1915 performance of Schumann's Traumerei. Among the 74 other masters represented here are Enrico Mainardi, whose version of Dvorak's Concerto in B minor is stately and deeply hued; and Gregor Piatigorsky, playing variations on Paganini with heart- skipping joy. All the tracks demonstrate the delicate timbres and subtle...