Horn virtuoso Owen Farr commissioned a new concert item for tenor horn from composer Dan Price in 2009, Trip the Light Fantastic was the resulting work.
The piece is music absolute, with no particular aim to tell a story or impose and image or idea on the listener. For anyone who knows Owen, they will know that he has an infectious and engaging presence and a lively sense of humour. His technical and musical ability is universally renowned, as is his enthusiasm and passion for music. The composer has attempted to create a musical caricature of some of these personal qualities and has borrowed the dancing term ‘to trip the light fantastic', "to dance nimbly or lightly, or to move in a pattern to musical accompaniment" as a fitting title to encompass the virtuosic yet jovial nature of the piece.
Category: SOLOS for E♭. Horn Composer: Jonathan Bates
Duration: 4.15
Troldhaugen is a movement from my Continental Concerto. The concept of the Concerto was to take a whistle-stop tour, anti-clockwise, around the various musical cultures and places of interest in Europe. Starting in the UK we work through France, Spain, Central Europe and Norway before finally returning back to the UK to finish. Troldhaugen is a luscious solo for Tenor Horn, incorporating snapshots of ‘Morning' from Edvard Grieg's ‘Peer Gynt' as its basis for the melodic material, with my own added twist.
Troldhaugen is the name of Grieg's house, located a few miles out from the centre of Bergen, Norway. Set in the idyllic countryside and lakes, I tried to somehow represent this setting through the music
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