{"product_id":"lidstrom-the-swan-cello-cl-sp","title":"Lidstrom The Swan Cello CL SP","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy youngest son Leif was learning the piano part. We wanted to\u003cbr\u003e\nsurprise his teacher, Graeme Humphrey, with a private performance. It\u003cbr\u003e\nwas during piano practise that I started thinking 'why not!', why not\u003cbr\u003e\ncompose my own swan! The idea is not a new one. There is a beautiful\u003cbr\u003e\n- and difficult! - Swan by Finnish composer Selim Palmgren (1878-\u003cbr\u003e\n1951), and a variante on Saint-Saëns' original by his student Leopold\u003cbr\u003e\nGodowsky (1870-1938), enriched in the deliciously imaginative way so\u003cbr\u003e\ntypical of him. For my own undertaking, I wanted part of the material\u003cbr\u003e\nto associate with Saint-Saëns' Swan, to be immediately recognisable.\u003cbr\u003e\nBeyond beauty and resplendence, I sought no further.\u003cbr\u003e\nTwo different endings hint at Saint-Saëns' original, in which the last\u003cbr\u003e\nchord of the piano part has the length of an eighth-note. A remarkable\u003cbr\u003e\nend to a piece of such dignity and grandeur, possibly eccentric, but\u003cbr\u003e\nit often leads to performances ending on a fermata for both players.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis is unquestionably very beautiful and atmospheric, and comes\u003cbr\u003e\nwith a guaranteed effect on an audience which is ready to seek relief\u003cbr\u003e\nin a sigh. This to be weighed, of course, against the composer's own\u003cbr\u003e\ndesign. Your call.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45724195815734,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0786\/9402\/3478\/products\/CL113.jpg?v=1698238368","url":"https:\/\/southlondonmusicshop.co.uk\/products\/lidstrom-the-swan-cello-cl-sp","provider":"South London Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}