Cello and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8052-E Composed by David Conte. Score & instrument part. 67 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8052-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8052-E). Sonata for Violoncello and Piano was written especially for cellist Emil Miland. As a performer, Mr. Miland has frequently appeared with many of the world’s finest singers, and his playing for me has always embodied many features of vocal technique, including a special kind of portamento, and varying speeds of vibrati. To that end, I fashioned in this piece long, arching melodies that are unabashedly lyrical and romantic in character.The first movement, marked Allegro Moderato Appassionato, is cast in an expansive sonata-allegro form, and its trajectory unfolds with bold, sweeping gestures. Though firmly in D Major, the entire melodic and harmonic texture of the movement is highly chromatic, giving the musical character a sense of heightened inflection and intensity. -David ConteIncludes score and part.
