VOCALISE for Little Prince (2013) for cello (or violin or tuba or flute or clarinet) and piano

Performances:
NORWICH  The Chenango Arts Council, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, at 7 pm (27 West Main Street, Norwich)
Kristina Reiko Cooper (Cello) Or  Matias (piano) (“Love Songs from Around the World”).

Recordings: “Diary” (ICL) Kristina Reiko Cooper (Cello) Uri Brener (piano);
 “Around the World with Love” (Roven Records) Kristina Reiko Cooper (Cello) Or  Matias (piano)

Listen to Vocalise (version for cello) HERE
Listen to Vocalise (version for flute) HERE

Vocalise for cello and piano –
was originally composed as a second movement of a triptych for harp, flute and chamber orchestra called “City of Mystics”, and the transcription for cello and piano was made especially for the performance and recording by an internationally acclaimed cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper.
The piece depicts an imagery of beautiful and almost non-real landscapes of that fictional City.
However it may as well be just a wink of childhood memory, appearing in a mind of a grown-up, asking himself, whether this was indeed something real, or just a fantasy?
As Antoine de Saint Exupéry puts it in his “Little Prince”:
All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.
In fact, the main theme of this piece was composed at a time when the composer himself was almost a child, 13 of age, and it was inspired by the Exupéry`s magnificent book.
Therefore it is of a little surprise that as an epigraph he chose following phrase:

 All you need is to truly love one thing to be filled with love for everything.