Cello Variations II

Instrumentation

vc

Year

1975

Duration

9:00

I wrote both my Cello Variations for Fred Sherry, and the second (1975) was a birthday present for the artist. These are variations in the “modern” sense: the piece is a continuously self-transforming fabric in which the initial materials (reminiscences of celloish behavior from past music) are reprocessed into new entities. The whole takes about eight minutes to play.

-CW, 1997

Recordings

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  Fast Fantasy performed by Fred Sherry (Charles Wuorinen Series)
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