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Category: Solos Composer / arranger: Martin Ellerby
The Three movements are :
1. Sonata 2. Elegy 3. Rondo
Duration 13:54
COMPOSER’S NOTE My Tenor Horn Concerto was written as part of my Composer-in-Residence post with the Williams Fairey Band. It was commissioned with funds made available by the Jewish Music Heritage Trust for a work dedicated to the memory of Marilyn Hydleman, the late sister of Dr Clive Marks, a notable benefactor to numerous music students and passionate crusader of humanitarian issues worldwide. I decided from the outset that ultimately the work would be life-affirming and this basic premise suggested the structure of the piece, enabling me to crib the mood of my former teacher Joseph Horovitz’s Euphonium Concerto which in his words starts ‘first in the head, then in the heart, and finally in the toes’.
1. The opening movement SONATA is restless and aggressive in character and the most serious part of the concerto. Many elements of traditional sonata form are employed, though freely interpreted. The solo horn commences proceedings with a pagan-like fanfare that returns in ritornello fashion throughout the movement. Ideas both aggressive and lyrical are shared and developed between the soloist and band culminating in a frenzied climax of rhythmic activity.
2. The work’s emotional core is a bittersweet ELEGY where an almost seamless melodic line is shared between soloist and band. Again the movement opens with some fanfare figures though this time in the band and of a much more delicate nature than in the first movement. They return from time to time to bridge the various solo melodic lines which all lead to a quiet and sensitive close.
3. The closing RONDO is intended to be fun all round and very definitely wears its heart on its sleeve. For some reason I had the bier-kellers of Munich in mind when writing this finale and this may go some way to explaining the character of the main theme!
Category: Solos Composers: Arthur Pryor, Keith Wilkinson
Feature Solo for trombone - duration 5.07
A short mp3 audio extract and an image of the SOLO PART are provided here to give you a sample of this work.
Please note that the trombone part supplied in this publication is in Treble Clef only. This version is in the original key of Bb. major ( concert pitch), and therefore can be used in conjunction ( is desired ) with the Piano Accompaniment arrangement of this title ( JM43873 ).
You can buy the full recording of this work on the CD section of our site.
The recording is PRYOR ENGAGEMENT on Doyen DOY CD212
Three Antiphons for trumpet and organ are adaptations of Latin motets for unaccompanied choir, commissioned
originally by Janet and Douglas Mackay for the Canterbury
Chamber Choir and first performed in Faversham, Kent, in
April 2004. Regina Caeli, as a motet, was nominated for the
Liturgical seption in the British Composer Awards,
December, 2005. The re-scoring for this combination was
made for Paul Archibald and Leslie Pearson and first
performed attheYoxford Festival in 2004.
01. averegina
02. ave maria
03. regina caeli
The three texts I chose for the choral motets address the
Virgin Mary. The first movement, Ave Regina, is a gentle and lyrical response to the ‘Queen of the heavens. . . from whom the light came into the world.’ The Ave Maria, originally written for upper voices, is more intimate in expression with a plainchant like muted opening. In contrast, the final movement, Regina Caeli, is robust and exultant. Each chordal passage [an Alleluia in the motet) punctuates the linearwriting of the ‘verses’ which make use of the plainchant footprints of the Regina Caeli itselt Three Antiphons have also been arranged for trumpet ensemble and organ and have been recorded in this version by the International Celebrity Trumpet Ensemble for the Brass Classics label.
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