Christopher Norton - Inventions for solo cello Viola and piano

Christopher Norton - Inventions for solo cello Viola and pianoAVAILABLE IN UK AND EUROPE THROUGH SHEETMUSICPLUS. COM, TO ORDER CLICK HERE Written in 1976 for the New Zealand cellist Christopher Salmon, these four Inventions for solo cello are for ambitious students at college level. The first piece is dramatic and declamatory, working the opening Eflat, G, Fsharp, A motif very tightly. The second piece is like a slow Sarabande, with double and triple stops in abundance. The third piece starts very mysteriously,

a piece dating to the eighteenth century

Highly Strung and Ostinato

It starts with an introduction which delivers the flavour of the buselik makam without exactly exploring it

buselik on D and A and nikriz on D

has been transmitted to present day by way of Kantemir’s music collection

“Meticulously researched

from playful Dancing Clowns

The pieces are intended for the study of rhythmic and melodic control

These arrangements from the Microjazz Collection for lever harp will bring these stimulating pieces to a whole new audience

also open up less familiar technical and musical elements for new players

Canada 2023

Székely did more than just transcribe the work note by note