Envoi I - for violoncello solo (2015) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2017-04-16T16:38:08Z Kei Yamazawa, Violoncello Recorded live on April 13, 2017 Tiara Koto, Tokyo, Japan Recording mastered by Yoshiaki Onishi Written from August to October of 2015 as part of "Five Dialogues," project initiated by Anssi Karttunen, this work is dedicated to him. This work utlizes the clothespins attached to the strings, and this technique was first shown to me by Theresa Wong, composer and cellist while we were in the residency at Civitella Ranieri Foundation together. The "prepared sound" from this technique plays an important role in the development of the musical materials in this piece. Furthermore, the fact that the tuning of the instrument being identical to that of the Fifth Cello Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach is a way for me to pay tribute to the masterpiece; there is also a passage from the Sarabande of the Suite, encrypted and hidden within the piece. Genre Contemporary Classical
