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Op.49 - Romanza for Cello and Small Orchestra

Category Orchestral > Other Orchestral Works
Composed 1990
Duration (approx) 12 minutes
Parts 

Cello, small orchestra: 2.2.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 strings (min 6.5.4.3.2)

Recording(s) A Birthday Concert for my Grandmother
Publisher Faber Music
Commission 

Mstislav Rostropovich for the 90th Birthday of
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

First performance 2 August 1990
Venue Buckingham Palace
Orchestra / Ensemble English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Raymond Leppard
Soloists / Players Mstislav Rostropovich
Review Robert Maycock, The Independent, 29 September 1990
  

As the Prince says in his foreword, he wanted the new pieces here to have “recognisable melodies and themes”; and this piece comes from the lyrical rather that the searching side of Matthews. But it grows into more than the wistful little number that its opening suggests – a fullscale, neatly wrought sonata movement with plenty of lovely cello writing.

  
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