GREAT RACE, The - (from Concerto for Euphonium - Pts & Score, SOLOS - Euphonium
Availability Available Published 16th January 2013
Cat No.JM65876 Price
£34.95 Composer: Peter Graham Category: SOLOS - Euphonium
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The Great Race, for solo euphonium and band, follows Phileas Fogg on the last stage of his epic journey “Around the World in Eighty Days” (from the novel by Jules Verne). The moto perpetuo nature of the music gives full rein to the soloist’s technical virtuosity. As the work draws to a conclusion, the frantic scramble by Fogg to meet his deadline at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, London, is echoed by the soloist’s increasingly demanding ascending figuration, set against the background of Big Ben clock chimes.