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JOHNSTONE – Fantasy on a theme of J.S.Bach – SOLO CELLO [only available from “Creighton’s Collection”]

Other Identification:
This powerful short work for solo Cello is based upon the theme ‘Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder’ forming the last choral movement of the great work by J.S.Bach “The St. Matthew Passion” BWV 244 (1727). This present original work of Johnstone was composed as the concluding work in a programme dedicated to special celebrations surrounding ‘St. Jacque’s Way’ (Camino de Santiago), an important pilgrim’s route across all of north Spain leading to the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, but it has quickly become a well-respected piece of cello literature standing up in its own right as a recital work. In the space of its first eighteen months alone it received more than twenty public performances.
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Please note –
this music is published by, and only available from, Creighton’s Collection
Tim Creighton Griffiths, Editor: http://www.creightonscollection.co.uk

Movements or sections:
In fantasy form which never-the-less shows some ‘sonata form’! The language could be classified as being more romantic than baroque, reflecting that the idea has not been to write a period piece, but rather a more modern, intense work which can equally well show respect to Johann Sebastian Bach.
The performance time is about four minutes.

Instrumentation:
Solo Violoncello (there exists another version of the same for Solo Viola).

Approximate difficulty:
Although not primarily virtuoso, it never-the-less contains substantial technical difficulties which make it a sensible choice to be placed alongside other longer solo instrumental works, or as a highly-driven and effective ‘encore’ piece. These difficulties, however, should be quite surmountable to the intermediate to advanced cellist, and richly gains by seeming to the concert going public rather more complicated to perform than in fact it is!

Dedicatee of this presentation (if applicable):
It is affectionately dedicated to the Spanish viola player and professor Fernando López Garcín who has so artistically and willingly participated in many projects with the composer.

Links (Audio – Visual), and known performances given by:
David Johnstone plays live his own Cello Fantasy on a theme of Bach in 1999 –

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