BOLLON
Popsuite
Virtuoso Encores for Solo Cello
FABRICE BOLLON Popsuite
Virtuoso Encores for Solo Cello
(2008)
EDITION PETERS
L E I P ZI G · L ONDO N · NE W YOR K
1)Jazzrock praeludium
2)Disco
3)Ska
4)Reggae
5)Mediterranean song
6)Hardrock solo
These short pieces form a suite of reflections, paraphrases and deconstructions of pop music styles of the 1970s and 1980s. A kind irony is meant through all of them, but not caricature. Also: this is not pop music.
Play rhythmically with great precision, but without being pedantic, always suggesting the beat. To achieve this, it will be necessary to accentuate beats and syncopations in different ways. The pulse of each bar, especially when the time signature changes, should always be sufficiently marked to make clear the structure of the bar. Freely vary the sound and dynamic, also using ponticello when not indicated, to suggest other instruments such as trumpets playing funk, guitars with distortion, acoustic guitars, even mandolins.
Each movement can be played separatly as an encore piece. When playing the whole suite, one should begin with the Jazzrock praeludium. Following that, the order is free.
Accidentals count only for the note for the whole bar.
This suite is written for the Cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. For this new version I thank my wife Dina.
Premiered on 1 April 2009 at the ‘7th Adam International Cello Festival and Competition’ Christchurch, New Zealand.
Jazzrock Praeludium
Fabrice Bollon
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