Categories: SOLOS - Trombone, SOLOS - Euphonium Composer: Peter Meechan
Duration 6.00
The opening unaccompanied passage of this work was originally written as a short memorial piece for saxophone, but was later adapted as the basis of this more developed work for solo euphonium or trombone.
The work uses a variation structure, with both the soloist and the accompaniment changing throughout the piece; the harmony, rhythm and melodic lines leading somewhere new and different each time they are heard – similar to the way our memories of a person often wander in different directions, but are still always focused on that person.
Embraceable You was written for Elgar Howarth's brother Stanford while they both played in the Barton Old Band, conducted by their father Oliver.
Howarth was about seventeen years old when he arranged this Duke Ellington classic and Chris Thomas's rendition on this recording is very special. Continuing the family link.
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The recording is The LIGHTER SIDE of ELGAR HOWARTH on Doyen DOY CD215
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