Description

David Johnstone – Cello Company, for Four Cellos (or Cello Orchestra)

Performance time approx. 5′ 30″

PDF 1 – General Score

PDF 2 – Parts for Cello 1 and 2

PDF 3 – Parts for Cello 3 and 4

The ‘Cello Company’ is a modern romantic song, perhaps better described as a really soft pop work, and surely useful to incorporate onto any cello ensemble programme! It makes an ideal small set when performed before the piece ‘Cello Addiction’ by the same composer (and also available from Creighton’s Collection’). Both pieces are conceived for four individual soloists, but work almost equally convincingly when played by an entire ‘cello orchestra’. When the present piece is performed by more than a quartet, it makes sense to play divisi the many double-stops, especially in the accompanying passages. Cello Company is exactly what the title indicates – a work for cello colleagues, inviting the blending of sounds, styles and vibrato. For this reason, all instruments have interesting parts, taking it in turns to shine in moments of lyrical glory! When played by four ‘solo’ cellists special care should be taken on the intonation, although everything is perfectly playable to competent cellists. In this sense there are no real first, second cello etc. as all are considered equal partners in the search for a romantic yearning and highly cantabile cello playing!

Credits:

Music Score Preparation by Carlos Ariel Gracia Baez
Front Cover Illustration by Iván Simón
Dedicated to Jon-Erik Johnstone Yáñez

EXAMPLE:

A note from David:

“If you wish to have a very professional quality copy of this music, set with high quality paper in a deluxe edition please contact the publisher CREIGHTON’S COLLECTION for a prompt delivery at an economical price – recommended for performance. It has a sharpness of image superior than you will find in the Johnstone-Music web shop”.

 [Creighton’s Collection
244 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9JG, Wales, Great Britain
Tel. [+44] 29 2039 7711 (from within G.B. 029-2039-7711)
Or by Internet: www.cccd.co.uk / E-mail: tim/ at /creightonscollection.co.uk ]

ENGLISH

Welcome to Johnstone-Music! A big Anglo-Spanish web for MUSICIANS and especially CELLISTS – original music scores for orchestral instruments and keyboard. Plus articles, audios, videos, resources, catalogues, news etc. Official web of the professional cellist David Johnstone, principal cello Navarre Symphony Orchestra (Spain), chamber musician and soloist in many premieres. Hundreds of cello arrangements in the web for a symbolic charge per download or for free.

The following have taken his work onboard, sometimes with special collaborations as composer-arranger-performer: the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Orchestre Nouvelle Generation de Montreal, the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), Orchestra da Camera del Locarnese (Suiza), The Zagreb Soloists, the Saint Petersburg Musical Theatre “Zazerkalye” Chamber Orchestra, the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum (Poland), Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra (New Zealand), Camerata Cambrensis (Basque country), Ensemble Metamorphosis of Belgrade (Serbia), with Ara Malikian (Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra – Madrid), and a long etc.. Currently, many courses, conservatoires and music schools, university String departments etc. use his repertoire; there are dozens of his arrangements on ‘You Tube’ …

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