JS Bach (1685–1750) Suite for Cello solo nr. The RCM is going to make a film, part documentary and part registration of the performance and it will be published end of October. ![]() Luckily we have now managed to reschedule this project with a recording day, a concert in the Museo del Violino in Cremona and a concert in Groningen (see concert diary). Free Online Cello Lessons Cello-Repertoire I : J.S.Bachs Allemande for Cello solo. The premiere should have taken place on the 23rd of March and the recording day on the 24th of March, but it was cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis. The process was for both me and the composers very interesting and educational: How to keep the benefits and ‘period’ treats of this cello piccolo (gut-strings and baroque bow) but at the same time combine them with contemporary ideas and techniques. In conversation with the composers we decided to keep a link to the Bach by sticking with the dances, but otherwise they worked in their own style and with their own approach. 6 Young composers stood up to the challenge to write a movement of music for this unusual instrument, together it forms the ‘New Suite’. I was interested in changing this and started a collaboration with the Royal College of Music’s composition department. The concert hall in the RCM is named after her and me being a almuna and performing with this cello in this hall completes the cirkel.īach composed his 6th Suite for Cello solo for the 5-stringed cello, but other than that we barely have any repertoire for it. Furthermore this cello was owned by Amaryllis Fleming, a renowned British cellist, alumna and later also professor at the Royal College of Music in London. There will be pieces that may be based on spirituals or gospel tunes but are, at their core, original songs. ![]() An original cello piccolo therefore is very rare and valuable, and this particular instrument is also special because of its famous maker. This refers to the original concert music that is not part of the traditional idiomatic canon associated with black musicians that canon includes spirituals, gospel, jazz, hip-hop, and rap among others. As there wasn’t much demand less and less cello piccolo’s were being build and it became a rare instrument, some 5-stringed instruments were even converted to 4 stringed cello’s. Through time the violoncello became the standard instrument to write music for while the other two drifted to the background. ![]() In the baroque period it was usual to write for all members of the cello family: basse de violon, cello piccolo and the violoncello, the instrument that is now known as the cello. It was postponed and has now been rescheduled for October.Ī cello piccolo is a cello with 5 strings (the extra string is a top E) and is often a little bit smaller than a normal cello. The instrument I was going to perform on is very special: a Girolamo Amati ‘Amaryllis Fleming’ from 1600, that would have been lended to me by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins and the Amaryllis Fleming Foundation. As part of my Mills Williams Junior Fellowship at the RCM I was going to give a concert in March with music for cello piccolo by Bach and composition students of the RCM.
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