Symphonic Ode for Cello and Orchestra
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Orchestra
- Composed
- 1965
- Duration
- 20'
- Publisher
- Canadian Music Centre (unpublished manuscript; score and parts via CMC)
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About this piece
A 20-minute single-movement work for solo cello and large orchestra, begun in 1964, finished in 1965 and partly revised in 1967. Coulthard conceived the solo part for the Vancouver cellist Ernst Friedlander, who had made the first recording of her Cello Sonata, but he died in 1966 before he could play it; her sketches show the working title 'Poem of the Atomic Age' and label the themes with words such as 'Lament' and 'Strife and agony'. Music historian David Gordon Duke (1993) describes the solo part as virtuosic and closer to a concerto than her later Symphonic Ode for viola, and reported that the cello work had not yet been performed.
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