Cello

The Sonata for solo cello is written in a single movement. With a pared-down and refined style, Geghuni Chitchyan offers the possibility to the cello to reveal its full sound amplitude. In this sonata, composed in 1983, the melodies often acquire... Read more

This work has been inspired by the trees wherefrom string instruments are made. The composer tried to enter an empathic way of communication with trees and this is the result. How does the experience of not being able to move from one’s place... Read more

Flirts is a sweet and light work for cello and piano. It starts with a shy and fragile “Spring” flirt and goes to a hot and intense “Summer” flirt before a warm-hearted and longing “Winter” flirt. No flirts in fall, time for the summer flirts break... Read more

Two main ideas (the opening rising phrase starting on a low C-sharp and the more luxuriantly harmonised descending theme) represent two subjects in a classical Sonata Form structure. An animated central passage transforms the opening ‘subject’ and... Read more

Short Meditation is written for two antiphonal groups of six same instruments. As the title suggests, most of the piece is calm and reflective. Yet there are several moments of more dynamic and emotional intensity, and it is the contrast between... Read more

The cyclical architectonic design of the composition creates an underlying melodic and harmonic unity, with the cello and the piano alternatively complementing or contradicting each other. The different tempi of the “12 Pieces” similarly follow the... Read more

During the academic year 1960-61 Richard Lane (1933-2004) was in Lexington, KY, USA. He had received a grant from the Ford Foundation to serve as a resident composer at Henry Clay High School - a public high school in Lexington. I was a senior that... Read more

For more than twenty five years Richard Lane spent summers on Cape Cod. During most of those years he stayed in a studio on the estate of Master Cellist Bernard Greenhouse. Much of Richard Lane’s music was composed and copied here. Bernard... Read more