Category: SOLOS - Euphonium Composer: J.N. Hummel Arranger: Philip Wilby
Euphonium & Piano
Duration 6.30
"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the ‘fantasia’ or ‘pot-pourri’ was a popular genre built on a selection of hit tunes of the day. Hummel wrote three such works, for guitar, cello, and viola; this arrangement is based on a shortened version of the work for viola and orchestra. The original, published as Hummel’s Opus 94, dates from about 1820 and includes themes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Rossini’s Tancredi."
Category: SOLOS - Euphonium Composer / arranger: Philip Sparke
This concerto has been adapted by the composer from his Clarinet Concerto, which was commissioned by Linda Merrick, a long-time friend of Philip Sparke and married to fellow composer, Martin Ellerby. As part of a dynamic and forward-looking PhD thesis on works for clarinet and concert band, Linda has researched the existing repertoire in addition to commissioning several new concerti from leading British composers, including Martin Ellerby and Nigel Clarke.
The original concept was for a suite of short movements, each with its own character, but by the time the first movement was complete, it was clear that a conventional three-movement format was going to work out better.
The opening movement contains much syncopation and is almost rag-like in style. The slower second movement explores initially the unsurpassable abiliw of the euphonium to play lyrically, with a theme that is later taken up by the piano whilst the soloist weaves a filigree descant This leads straight into the third movement, which is almost bee-bop in style and shows off the jazzier capabilities of the euphonium. The adaptation for euphonium was made for the virtuoso soloist, Steven Mead and is also available with concert band accompaniment.
Categories: SOLOS - Euphonium, Howard Snell Music Arranger: Howard Snell
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Howard Snell writes :
The origin of this English folk song in unknown, but Ben Jonson's lyric 'To Celia' matches it step for step in beauty of feeling. These Variations are virtuosic but try to stay within touching distance of the melody's grace and charm... qualities that the euphonium possesses fully when approached in the appropriate way.
An original slow melody work with flourishes for Baritone.
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Categories: SOLOS - Euphonium, Howard Snell Music Composer: Howard Snell
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Howard Snell writes :
Written in memory of two aquaintances, Oration is also connected in my mind with the Aberfan disaster when 144 souls, 112 of them children, were engulfed when liquid coal waste slipped to drown a school. The image in my mind is of a preacher's passionate funeral valediction... a farewell... against the background of a sombre graveside gathering. Although written for euphonium it has been recorded by on trumpet Chris Jaudes. 'Oration is just lovely' wrote one reviewer.
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