Reger - Cello Suite N3 op.131

Reger - Suite N3 for cello. You can download the sheet music Reger - Suite N3 for cello on this page.

Suite No 3 in A minor is dedicated to the cellist Paul Griimmer, and though it has only three movements it is formally the most elaborately worked-out of the three members of Op 131c. The Präludium begins with a solemn chordal idea that is contrasted with more fluid but intense melodic writing. In its second span the chordal writing grows more impassioned, with plangent parallel thirds. Rising chromatic sequences reach their peak in the cello's highest register before the initial pair of ideas is recapitulated. The richness and subtlety of the writing in this movement allows a good player almost infinite scope for expressive interpretation. This is followed by an ebullient scherzo in D minor, Vivace, whose head-motif is a kind of leaping horn-call figure and whose form is made ample by copious structural repeats. In the gentler trio (Un poco meno mosso) the waltz-measure which can sometimes be detected behind the scherzo's busy-ness comes to the fore.

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Cello part: 10 pages. 543 K