Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer / arranger: Victor Ewald arr. Michael Hopkinson
Set as the 3rd. Section Test Piece for the National Finals of the 2014 British Brass Band Championships.
Previously set as the 2nd. Section Testpiece for the 2002 Regionals.
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Victor Ewald was born in Russia in St. Petersburg in 1860. this is one of only a small number of works specifically written for brass instruments during the Romantic Period. If you like Tckaikovsky's music, then you will love this major addition to the brass band repertoire - Tchaikovsky was perhaps Victor Ewalds strongest compositional influence.
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer / arranger: Victor Ewald arr. Michael Hopkinson
Set as the 3rd. Section Test Piece for the National Finals of the 2014 British Brass Band Championships.
Previously set as the 2nd. Section Testpiece for the 2002 Regionals.
Click on MORE DETAILS to view an image (PDF) of the Solo Flugel Horn part or to listen to an audio extract of this work.
Victor Ewald was born in Russia in St. Petersburg in 1860. this is one of only a small number of works specifically written for brass instruments during the Romantic Period. If you like Tckaikovsky's music, then you will love this major addition to the brass band repertoire - Tchaikovsky was perhaps Victor Ewalds strongest compositional influence.
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer: Simon Dobson
A Symphony Of Colours was commissioned by the Fairey Band (Stockport), to perform at the 2011 European Brass Band Championships held in Montreux, this virtuoso score won A BASCA British Composer Award in the Brass & Wind Band category for its composer, Simon Dobson.
Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer: Etienne Crausaz
Grade 5.0 Duation 20.53
This three-movement work by the Swiss composer Etienne Crausaz reflects three true stories and fascinating legends from the Middle Ages. The first movement tells the dramatic story of the ‘witch’ Catherine ‘Catillon’ Repond (1662–1731). She was the last woman ever to be executed for sorcery. In the second movement, the famous court jester Girard Chalamala occupies centre stage. This jester, the last one at the castle of Count Greyerz, could make everyone laugh. The third movement tells the story of Count Michael. He went down in history as a spendthrift bon-vivant. His burden of debt became so high that he did a moonlight flit and never came back!
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer / arranger: Philip Sparke
European Testpiece 2000 - Championship Section.
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TALLIS VARIATIONS The hymn tune on which these variations are based is the third of nine that Thomas Tallis wrote in 1567 as part of a psalter for the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. It was later used by Vaughan Williams in the English Hymnal and as the basis for his Fantasia.
After a turbulent introduction, the first half of the theme is stated by the middle of the band. Variation 1 (bar 31) is based on the first two notes of the theme, exploring the E minor tonality with repeated semiquaver activity. Variation 2 (bar 134) contains a gentle solo for flugel horn and a varied statement of the theme in chorale form. Variation 3 (bar 211) starts with a series of short solos before a serene melody appears on cornet. The theme then appears, reharmonised, before the variation closes peacefully. The final variation (bar 262) is ebullient in character, starting with cornet fanfares, and evolves around a fugue-like theme first presented by the euphoniums. Eventually music from Variation 1 returns to herald the final, fiery statement of the theme, accompanied by figures from the fugue. But the piece ends quietly, the serene beauty of the Tallis chorale unshakeable.
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