Archive for Cello Chamber Music

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Female Composer Competition

Posted by on March 15, 2012 with 0 Comments

The Detroit Symphony is sponsoring a competition for female composers….check it out ladies! http://www.dso.org/page.aspx?page_id=552   The Elaine Lebenbom Annual Memorial Award for Female Composers WINNER NOTIFICATION DATE AND PREMIERE SEASON FOR THE SIXTH ANNUAL ELAINE LEBENBOM COMPETITION HAVE CHANGED. PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR UPDATES GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers is granted [...]

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Quatre Sonnets a Cassandre, Martin F.

Posted by on January 15, 2012 with 0 Comments

I just stumbled onto another gem – another work recommended by Robért Langevin, Principal Flutist with the New York Philharmonic.  Amours de Ronsard,  for Mezzo Soprano, Flute, Viola and Cello  is the most beautiful work of  the Swiss composer Frank Martin’s I have yet to experience….think Debussy and Ravel with a Renaissance twist.  Looking very [...]

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Four Songs by Andre Previn , based on Poems by Toni Morrison

Posted by on October 3, 2011 with 1 Comments

We recently discovered this fabulous work and highly recommend it.  It is a beautiful, poignant, and whimsical setting of these stunning poems.  The piano writing is uniquely Previn and very interesting, the cello part is like another voice part, and the soprano part is soulful, contemplative, melancholy, and funky !  This is a work of [...]

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Louise Farrenc-Piano Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, e minor

Posted by on October 3, 2011 with 0 Comments

Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) was a female composer and Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatoire, the only woman to hold this prestigious position in the 19th Century.  A contemporary of Mendelssohn, this substantial work is a rare gem in the literature of flute music.  Not only does it fill a void in the Romantic Flute [...]

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