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Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: C. Armstrong Arranger: Philip Harper
Part of the six movement ROMEO and JULIET Suite by Philip Harper
If you are looking for a dramatic and epic concert opener, this could be the one for you! Based on O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana, this was used for the opening montage of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Keith Manners
This poetic music based on a Scottish folktale offers any concert programme a moment of tranquility. The haunting
theme opens with a solo cornet and travels throughout the band, moving towards a rousing flourish and calming to the ending pause.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten composed his Occasional Overture Op.38, for the opening of the BBC Third Programme on 29th September 1946, when it was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult. It was not heard again until 1982, when the composer’s Executors decided that it should be revived. Given the dominance of brass and woodwind in this concise but exciting work, versions for brass band and wind band have been prepared for Britten’s centenary year.
Brass Band Grade 6: Championship.
Duration: 8 Minutes.
Grade equivalents for Brass Band test-pieces where there is considerable overlap at the higher levels, depending on the level of competition (local, regional or national):
Ocean of Storms or Oceanus Procellarum is one of only a few lunar maria or ‘seas’ on the moon’s surface to be called an ocean due to its immense size.
This evocative work by Dan Price takes draws inspiration from not only the idea of a lunar impact but also from the name the crater has been given. The work opens atmospherically with a sense of weightlessness and introduces the main thematic idea. As the work develops the turbulent ebb and flow of the storm increases in its ferocity with solo spots for solo cornet, solo euphonium, flugel horn and baritone.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Allan Botschinsky
Click on "MORE DETAILS" to listen to an audio extract of this work. The extract is taken from the original FIRST BRASS CD written for 16 brass - you can purchase this CD in the CD section of this website.
The ground breaking CD FIRST BRASS was recorded by Allan Botschinsky, Derek Watkins,Bart van Lier and Erik van Lier in 1986. The original music was composed and arranged by
Allan Botschinsky for a 12 to 16 a capella brass ensemble. For its 25th anniversary the legendary format has now been arranged for FULL BRASS BAND.
In 2011, Nigel Durno, music editor for Just Music, collaborated with Allan Botschinsky and producer, Marion Kaempfert, to create Brass Band arrangements of the ten original tracks on the FIRST BRASS CD. This music was initially aimed to challenge brass players at the very highest level, but these new arrangements have been designed to make the music accessible to as many bands as possible.
Key Features of the Brass Band arrangements:
In creating the BB arrangements we have retained the original integrity of the music, while offering easier performance options (lower octave) for the Cornet section and Flugelhorn soloists.
While all the original Flugelhorn solos on the CD are printed out in full, parts with chord symbols are also included for soloists who want to improvise their own solos.
In addition, Allan Botschinsky has written some new solos which create a musical conversation between two soloists in the band, Flugelhorn and Eb Horn (Eb Alto Horn).
Alternative solo parts have also been created to feature different soloists in the band,i.e. 1st Trombone and Euphonium. Again, those solos are written out in full and cued,and will offer bands greater flexibility in the soloists they feature.
Composer and arranger, Adrian Drover, was commissioned
to write new additional percussion parts, to complete the
arrangements for full Brass Band.
All of the above will help make this unique set of ten pieces accessible and attractive for the many brass bands all over the world.
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