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GOENS, Daniel Van – Scherzo, Op.12 No.2 – 5 CELLOS or CELLO SOLOIST WITH CELLO ORCHESTRA

Other Identification:
The name of Daniel van Goens is remembered today primarily for THIS particular work, originally for cello and piano, although he also composed a wealth of music. His first works were published in 1885 and he composed many works for his own instrument, also published in versions for violin, but only the famed ‘Scherzo’ has regularly survived into the repertoire today. The piece is fast, lively, fun, light-hearted and great for the player and an audience.

Movements or sections:
The first section is a fast and virtuosic moto perpetuo figure, marked ‘Vivace molto e con spirito’, and then moves abruptly into a more lyrical and cantabile section, marked ‘Cantando’ and with a more relaxed and sonorous approach, but which has no relationship to the first section. The music now ebbs and flows in a late-romantic style, before a 20 bar bridging passage of the moto perpetuo music returns leading back into an exact repetition of the opening music.
{Programme note credit: David Heyes}

Instrumentation: QUINTET OF FIVE CELLOS or CELLO SOLOIST WITH AN ORCHESTRA OF CELLOS

This music is in 3 PDFs:
1 – Cello Soloist
2 – Cellos 2, and 3
3 – Cellos 4 and 5

Approximate difficulty:
MEDIUM (to DIFFICULT).
Although generally of accompanying nature the cellos II to V all have melodic moments to enjoy. Cello II briefly uses thumb position and 6th position; the other parts are all rather more comfortable for the left-hand, therefore it is included in “easy” cello ensembles. The main difficulty could arise from the speed in which the soloist player takes this piece; of course this first part is indeed virtuosic!

Dedicatee of this presentation (if applicable):
Argentine-Spanish Rudolfo Zanni

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