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Roger Sacheverell Coke: First Cello Sonata for Cello & Piano [Printed Music]
£19.99
In stock
Catalogue Number
NMP1089
For Cello & Piano
38-page A4 wire-bound Score with 20-page A4 saddle-stitched Part
Duration: c.20½ mins
ISMN No: 979-0-708167-38-9
Thanks to the tireless advocacy of the pianist Simon Callaghan, the music of the Derbyshire-born Roger Sacheverell Coke has started to emerge from the obscurity in which it has languished since the composer’s death in 1972. Despite showing considerable early promise, Coke remained an outsider in British musical life. His three cello sonatas frame the years 1936 to 1941 a very productive period in Coke’s life. Dedicated to Coke’s mother Dorothy, the first cello sonata is cast in four movements, the sonata exhibits many of the hallmarks of Coke’s music. The first movement is a typically ambiguous blend of romantic lyricism and grave chromaticism, with cello and piano treated as equal partners. A slow introduction gives way to an angular theme that dominates the movement and builds to a tense contrapuntal climax, with solo passages for the pianist punctuating the musical discourse. Coke exploits extremes of register in both instruments: high spare unison passages in the piano, at times seeming to prefigure late Shostakovich, and rich, dark sonorities in the cello.
A PDF Version of this score is available upon request.
Manufacturer: Wyastone Estate Limited, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, NP25 3SR
Email: sales@wyastone.co.uk