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This promising work reflects the composer's awareness of the cello idiom in his choice of passagework and in writing an accompaniment (judging from the piano reduction) that allows for a focus on the solo. It is extremely challenging for the cellist with an extensive range, frequent motion from the low to the high extremities, extensive chordal passages, and rhythmic activity with changing tempos and meters. Even though passages lie well for the instrument, it requires advanced technique and control of the full range of the cello as the player becomes accustomed to this composer's reiterate semi-tonal style, with its rhapsodic flavor. In three movements,