Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1145526
By Stefano Olcese. By Stefano Olcese. Arranged by Stefano Olcese. Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Film/TV,Romantic Period. 28 pages. Stefano Olcese #745768. Published by Stefano Olcese (A0.1145526).
----> IMPORTANT <---- This PDF file is in A3 format. If you need a different format please let me know and I'll provide it to you free of charge. Same for the separate parts: if you need them I'll send them to you free of charge. My contacts are below :) A few years ago, during a road trip through Skåne, the Swedish southernmost region, I landed in a quite famous tourists’ destination: Ales Stenar, a sort of viking Stonehenge. It was cloudy, cold and windy, but somehow beautiful. And there, surrounded by those mysterious gray stones, walking on the cliffs above the Baltic Sea, a beautiful melody came to my mind. Just 8 bars. As it should be. I was happy and proud of that melody, on the spot. Once back home I immediately wrote a sketch for piano and a few days later I played it to a dear friend of mine, a very talented Swedish violinist, Anders Hjortvall. He was enthusiastic. “This is a violin melody Stefano! Think about it :) †he added. And he was damn right! Those 8 bars were the seed of the first movement, Skåne. Yet, I had the feeling that something was missing, that a continuation was needed. Also, I was not being fair to Ales Stenar, where everything began. So I later wrote four additional movements and entitled the whole composition Ales Stenar. I called it a suite for violin and chamber orchestra because to me it’s certainly a quite free-flowing music, deeply inspired by Swedish landscapes and nordic atmospheres, but still, all five movements have an inner coherence and a reciprocal connection. The (minimum) instrumentation list includes a solo violin, 1 first violin, 1 second violin, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 double bass, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet in B-flat, 1 bassoon. Upon request I can arrange the score for a bigger or different ensemble. I am a composer and opera singer based in Malmö, Sweden. Feel free to contact me to know more about my music, my singing and possible collaborations. http://www.stefano-olcese.com/ https://www.facebook.com/olcesestefano https://www.instagram.com/stefano_olcese.
