Zhou Long's realisation of this folk-dance indigenous to north-east China has ...(+)
Zhou Long's realisation of this folk-dance indigenous to north-east China has all its kaleidoscopic colour and rhythmic drive with some brilliant licks for each of the instruments. Scored for brass quintet (trumpet in C doubling piccolo trumpet trumpet in B flat horn in F trombone tuba) this work is within the technical range of good student groups and amply repays the attention of professional ensembles.
This cheerful six movement suite for brass quintet employs dance rhythms and the...(+)
This cheerful six movement suite for brass quintet employs dance rhythms and themes throughout. With plenty of interplay between the instruments this is approachable and rewarding music for both performer and audience alike.
A work in five movements each characterizing a poem by Chaucer. 'Triton's Trump...(+)
A work in five movements each characterizing a poem by Chaucer. 'Triton's Trumpets' acts as an overture to the suite of pieces is mainly rather rustic and as its title implies much of its music is in the nature of fanfares. Next is a haunting slow waltz then a very short and very vigorous fanfare. In the fourth movement 'The Sorrowful Knight' each instrument expresses its individual sorrow. Finally Chaucer himself chatters in a jaunty innocent style.
Hardback-This volume brings together all the music Walton wrote for brass throug...(+)
Hardback-This volume brings together all the music Walton wrote for brass throughout his life from the various fanfares often written for ceremonial occasions to the more extended work The First Shoot a piece which the editor of this volume Elgar Howarth was instrumental in bringing to life. The volume includes full critical apparatus and selected facsimiles of manuscript pages.
The pairing of a slowish and a lively movement has long been attractive to compo...(+)
The pairing of a slowish and a lively movement has long been attractive to composers certainly since the days of pavanes and galliards. Skempton uses the contrast to great effect here where if 'Rest' is a lullaby 'Recreation' could be described as rousing.