Rudolf Matz/ In Modo Rapsodico for Cello and Piano/ Stephen Feldman & Cesar Blas.

Celebrating Rudolf Matz Part 2: Reintroducing Cellists and Teachers to the more advanced performing repertoire of Master Cello Pedagogue Rudolf Matz (1901-1988). Dr. Stephen Feldman--Professor of Cello at the University of Central Arkansas. 11. In Modo Rapsodico for Violoncello and Piano, Complete Work. Stephen Feldman, Cello. Cesar Blas, Piano. 00:00 Part 1 02:29 Part 2 04:02 Part 3 05:45 Part 4 [Find this work and others by Matz at www.dominismusic.com] This intense and engaging single-movement work for cello and piano was the last advanced work for performance that Matz wrote for his First Years of Violoncello, and was completed as part of the new editions that were being published by Dominis Music. The work is dedicated to Bodo and Vera Gospodnetic. It has a similar intensity as Matz's "Elegy" and in the expressive writing in his Sonata in E minor, and has extended passages that use thumb position, though with the thumb positioned at the harmonic always. ______________________________________ Croatian born Rudolf Matz (1901-1988) began work on what would become his First Years of Violoncello in the early 1940’s, and he would continue to expand, revise, and make more complete this monumental undertaking for the next 45 years. His interest and experience as a teacher, performer, composer and author informed the content of these technical exercises, etudes, and concert pieces, as did his early life experience as a competitive sprinter and his later interest in and study of anatomy, physiology, and ergonomics. Furthermore, Matz’s work with the Vaclav Huml, a Prague-trained violinist and former student of Sevcik, and Antonio Janigro, a virtuoso cellist well-versed in the modernizations of cello technique by Casals by way of Janigro’s study with Diran Alexanian provided a model and added richness and depth to Matz’s endeavor. The 32 volumes of Matz’s First Years of Violoncello were published in Zagreb between 1946 and 1971, but these editions are no longer in print. Many of the works have been newly published by Dominis Music beginning in 1982—a publishing house established by Matz’s former student and friend, Slobodan Gospodnetic. All of the pieces I will add to this channel in the first and second parts of this Celebration of Rudolf Matz are published by Dominis Music and are widely available.