Scherzo per a trio op. 121 num. 1

Par HESKETH KENNETH. Un Masque (abréviation de Masquerade) a été défini par les historiens comme ' A revel dans laquelle mimes ou masqués folk viennent avec des torches blazing dans la salle de fête et appeler à la compagnie de danse et couper en dés '. Le chaos de cette danse dramatique est représenté dans cette ' Masque ' par Hesketh. Le thème principal est la bravoure et est souvent présent, à l'arrière-plan. La forme de la pièce est un scherzo-trio-scherzo simple. Notation colorés (solos de vent supérieur, solos de trompette et de la corne alternant avec plein de corps tuttis) avec un trait de caractère sauvage peut tease joueur et auditeur à décevoir leurs cheveux un peu ! ' Masque ' a été transcrite pour bande par Kenneth Hesketh de son ' Scherzo pour orchestre ', commandée par l'Orchestre National pour les enfants en 1987. Cette fine pièce peut être entendue sur le CD de la bande Leyland, photos de la côte est (numéro de catalogue 0-571-52109-6)./ Répertoire / Brass Band

First performance 12 October 2011 at St George's Hall Liverpool by David Pyatt (horn) and the Sacconi String Quartet as part of the Centenary Concert of the Rodewald Concert Series.Composer's NoteThroughout my musical life I have found the horn one of the most evocative and beautiful of all instruments and it is no surprise that I have written a number of works for it including a concerto a trio with violin and piano and a triptych of concert works for horn and piano. Writing a work for horn and string quartet has long been an ambition therefore fuelled not only by my love of the instrument but also by theastonishingly small repertoire of horn quintets.This work was commissioned to celebrate their centenary by the Rodewald Concert Society Liverpool who gave me an invaluable education in the masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire at their concerts which I attended regularly during my schooldays. The quintet is dedicated to Nancy and Douglas Brady two of my oldest and closest friends from Liverpool. It was written in 2010/11 and is continuous. There are however three main ?movements?: an opening quick one which is interrupted twice by brief slow interludes referring to the motto heard at the start a substantial slow movement which also contains two short scherzando sections (much as Brahms?s A major Violin Sonata has two quick trio sections in its slow movement) and a fast finale a descendant of the Beethoven one-in-a-bar scherzo.The scherzando interludes interwoven with the slow movement are frequently muted and have something of an other-worldly atmosphere perhaps Queen Mab came to deliver me of some dreams while I was writing it. At the end of the finale the furious activity gives way to an elegiac conclusion which I feel was greatly influenced by events in the world outside at the time of composition the music descending to a quiet sustained C on horn and cello. The work lasts just over 20 minutes and was first