Fabian Müller: Suite for Violoncello & Piano (Pi-Chin Chien, Violoncello - Adrian Oetiker, Piano)

Описание: Fabian Müller (*1964): Suite for Violoncello & Piano

Pi-Chin Chien, Violoncello - 簡碧青 大提琴
Adrian Oetiker, Piano

1. Tempo di Marcia 0:00
2. Lento 3:17
3. Tempo di Gavotta 7:37
4. Barkarole, tranquillo 10:04
5. Finale, Allegro 14:05

Excerpt of the booklet-text by Walter Labhart (label Musiques Suisses): Fabian Müller's «Suite for Cello & Piano» is structured in a quite traditional manner. After the dark, dramatic cello concerto that he wrote for his wife Pi-Chin Chien in 1999, and which she recorded on CD with the Philharmonia Orchestra under David Zinman, she asked him to write something ‘lighter’ and ‚brighter’ for her. It is this that he have attempted in this suite in five movements, which is in its original version accompanied by a string orchestra. Soon afterwards Pi-Chin was asked by the ‘Academy of Taiwan Strings’ to give a concert in Taiwan and the suite had its world premiere in the National Music Hall in Taipei in May 2004.
This piece now exists in different versions: for cello or viola with string orchestra or piano accompaniment. Originally a cellist himself, Fabian Müller have incorporated many typically ‚celloistic’ passages into the five movements. It was important to him that this work should be fun to play. There are thus hidden in it even quotations from the ‘Daily Exercises’ by Feuillard, which accompanied Pi-Chin throughout her studies. Since she did not like such technical exercises very much at that time, and generally managed to avoid playing them by some elegant ruse or other, fate has here in ironic fashion caught up with her.