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Cello SKU: HL.48025036 For Solo Cello. Composed by Brett Dean. Arranged by Zoltán Szabó. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 8 pages. Duration 600 seconds. Bote & Bock #M202535646. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48025036). UPC: 196288020813.The piece was commissioned by a colleague Brett Dean of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the violist Walter Kussner, as part of a CD project with works for solo viola in 1998/99. Since then, the composer himself has played it himself countless times in concerts andlectures. Here it is now in a congenial adaptation for cello. The title Intimate Decisions comes from a painting by Dean's wife, theAustralian painter Heather Betts, and indicates the private nature of the music. According to Dean, "writing a piece for a solo string instrument was strangely similar to writing a personal letter or an intense conversation with a close friend." The piece begins with a short series of individual intervals of a rather intangible character, followed by a more emphatic motif of a minor sixth and minor ninth, and later a chain of harmonies whirring down the lower strings. The various developing characters go through an increasingly decisive, ultimately dramatic "conversation", in rhapsodic alternation with flighty virtuosity, but also calm and delicacy, only to fade away like an echo at the end. Special Import titles are specialty titles that are not generally offered for sale by US based retailers. These items must be obtained from our overseas suppliers. When you order a special import title, it will be shipped from our overseas warehouse. The shipment time will be slower than items shipped directly from our US warehouse and may be subject to delays.