Retro Variations
Instrumentation Cello Concertino for Chamber Orchestra Recording, download - 12.82MB Score, download - 0.26MB |
Other Information The first bar of the theme from this miniature cello concerto (loosely imagined as a contemporary Rococo Variations) just wouldn´t go away! So I wrote it down, old fashioned though it was, and Retro Variations was the result. A short orchestral refrain opens the piece and the light, graceful retro-sounding theme is announced in the cello. Each of the seven variations are preceeded by this refrain and each takes a tiny fragment of the theme as its basis. Each variation features a cadenza, and there is a central slow section to the work. A final coda features a miniature reminder of each variation.
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