Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Composed
- 1994
- Duration
- 35'
- Publisher
- 21C Music Publishing / Michael Hersch Music
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About this piece
Michael Hersch's first sonata for solo cello is a three-movement work of about 35 minutes, finished in 1994 while he was a 23-year-old student. The opening movement alone runs close to a quarter of an hour, a Grave follows, and the Allegro con fuoco finale, mostly in 6/8, builds to a two-voice dirge that returns in his Sonata No. 2. It waited seven years for its public premiere, given by Daniel Gaisford at New York's 92nd Street Y in 2001; Gaisford also recorded it for Vanguard Classics alongside the Second Sonata.
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