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DAVID JOHNSTONE – CELLO CONCERTO

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PDF 1 – General Score

PDF 2 – Soloist Cello part

PDF 3 – Violin 1 part

PDF 4 – Violin 2 part

PDF 5 – Viola part

PDF 6 – Orch. Cello part

PDF 7 – Double Bass part

Free Soloist Cello part: https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/free-LR-JOHNSTONE-Cello_Concerto-SOLO_CELLO-music_WEB.pdf  

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NOTES

The Cello Concerto of David Johnstone was first written in 2007 but underwent a revision in 2021 to its present form, with the creation of a new central movement. This is a work with full string orchestra, and one which does not unduly test the orchestral at a technical level. However, all string sections have moments of prominence where the tone quality is of importance. Given the many ‘divisi’ incorporated, the string sections should never dip below a minimum of 7-6-4-4-2 player numbers. Whilst the work cannot be considered a ‘traditional’ solo concerto as such, there is an important concerto role for the soloist, with some challenging and grandioso writing. There are many higher register passages for the cello on the A-string, with the soloist frequently soaring above even the first violins of the orchestra.

Stylistically, there is a mix of popular and classical styles, hence the sub-title the ‘Popular’. The song form, with all its lyricism, is equally as important here as the symphonic form, and the soulful British pop writing often comes to the fore. Yet there are also aspects of the work which derive from the golden age of the romantic period British string orchestral writing, reaching back at least as far as Elgar.

An innovative work to the 21st century cello repertoire!!

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Total Duration (approximate timings): about 24-25 mins

Movement I – 9 mins

Movement II and cadenza – 7 mins

Movement III – 8 mins

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With a big thanks to cellists Carlos Ariel Gracia Baez and Javier Navascués Allué for their wonderful computer preparations of the music…

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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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