Fantasy for Cello and Clarinet in E Flat Minor, Opus 8 (Copyright: 2007, by M. Bulteau, a.k.a. Berlioz)
Composed with Finale 2006.
About 3 days of actual working time (except with the previous week reading thoroughly about each instrument's abilities, although I think there might one or other impossibility).
I'd like to open with a statement:
For every extra 5 to 10 minutes wasted on checking a cello fingering chart to see if a certain chord is possible, I just want to say:
DAMN ALL CELLISTS TO HELL!!!!
(Although I'd like to learn how to play it some day
)
Now for the real thing.
This Fantasy is more like a story.
Imagine two people that are initially alone, then they get involved and get closer, but they eventually separate, getting closer a bit after, then separating again, then getting closer, then separating, each time with more strength.
Until when all seems to be going a certain way, it simply turns the other way around (with the sound of the wooden part of the bow hitting the cello's body).
To those who found the second movement of my
piano and flute sonata to be too "choppy", well, you're in for "extra-choppiness"...
The digital sound is disgusting compared to what I expect it to sound in real life. Goddamned finale has no rubato, the tempi are marked like a hammering fist, and there is no
humanity (logically). Such things take a lot from this, which is supposed to sound much deeper as I can imagine it to be, live.
Here it is.
(Score removed for attachment space issues, do send me a PM if you're interested in seeing it)