related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Sweet pain : for 8 violoncellos, 1991/1992 / Henk Alkema
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
8vc
Frivolités : drie stukken voor strijkinstrumenten, op. 81, 1981 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin; Viola; Cello
Scoring:
vl/vla/vc
Serenade : voor violoncello solo / Henk Stam
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
vc
composition
Bella figura : for violoncello solo, 2000 / Willem Jeths
Other authors:
Jeths, Willem
(Composer)
Description:
Première: 22-2-2000
Small Hall Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Frances-Marie Uitti
Bella Figura is based on the use of four open strings that are played in all possible combinations of large double stops alternating with subtile tone-quarter fluctuations. It is a game of extremes, of different color possibilities of the cello. Many playing techniques are must be used; from very "sul ponticello" to very loud scratches. The work is a research on tone and bowing; a work about the cello, the bella figura. - Willem Jeths