Description

Music for the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Música para La Liga de Campeones) set as a concert piece for EIGHT CELLOS

– this music has been specially produced for eight solo cellos. However, this is excellent material for large (large as possible!) Cello Orchestra and for use in the larger Cello class etc. (see the notes in English)

Download Contents or Instructions:

PDF 1 – Individual cello parts for Cellos 1 to 4 (12 pages in all)

PDF 2 – Individual cello parts for Cellos 5 to 8 (12 pages in all)

PDF 3 – General Score (16 pages in all)

The tempo indication is: Allegro

General difficulty of the music – other brief Information:

MEDIUM for the top parts (however most parts are Easy-Medium!)

The UEFA Champions League Anthem, officially titled simply as “Champions League”, is the official anthem of the UEFA Champions League, written by English composer Tony Britten in 1992. It was adapted from George Frideric Händel’s anthem Zadok the Priest, which is traditionally performed at the coronation of British monarchs. In a 2013 newspaper interview, Britten stated that “I had a commercials agent and they approached me to write something anthemic and because it was just after The Three Tenors at the World Cup in Italy so classical music was all the rage. Hooliganism was a major, major problem and UEFA wanted to take the game into a completely different area altogether. There’s a rising string phase which I pinched from Handel and then I wrote my own tune. It has a kind of Handelian feel to it but I like to think it’s not a total rip-off.”

Britten also mentioned that he does not own the rights to the anthem, which are retained by UEFA, but he receives royalties when it is used. It should be mentioned that David Johnstone, in his reworking of this music for Eight Cellos or Cello Orchestra, has in no place registered this music in his own name nor any charge made for anyone wanting this specific ‘cello’ copy; any royalties will go to their rightful owners. However, there is a fair degree of orchestration skill in this presentation, so as to be suitable for all moderate cellists; although thumb position is occasionally required in the uppermost parts this will always be comfortable, usually with the thumb resting on the octave harmonic. In the lower parts there are occasional double-stoppings; not especially hard but they might be played divisi when larger groups of more than eight cellists play the piece.

This musical creation was prepared for: Noelia Mas Armengol & ‘Freaky Cellos’ – Priego (Cordoba), Andalucia, Spain)

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Enjoy the music !!

ENGLISH

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