Par . Well known pieces. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Recueil / Cor Anglais et Piano

En chemin est une pièce assez courte de forme rondeau, Les couplets, en sol mineur, empruntent leur caractère au tango, Les refrains, eux, sont en sol Majeur et comprennent deux éléments distincts - d'une part la mélodie jouée par l'instrument soliste, et d'autre part la rythmique très marquée du clavier, Cette pièce a été déclinée en plusieurs versions : Cor anglais/Piano, puis Cor anglais/Clavecin et enfin Violon/Piano,En chemin a été jouée pour la première fois dans sa version originale (Cor anglais/Piano) le 21 septembre 2008, au Logis du Bon St-Jacques à Moret-sur-Loing (Seine-et-Marne), / Cor

Par LELOUCH EMILE. / Niveau : D.F.E. / classique / Répertoire / Cor Anglais et Piano

Rarely has a musical work been better characterized by its subtitle than Nicolas Bacri’s Lyric Interlude: ‘A Study in Pastoral Style’. When in 2008 the composer received the commission for a piece with English Horn from Cecilia Benner patron of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit he immediately thought of the duo between this instrument and the Oboe that Berlioz in the Symphonie fantastique placed at the beginning of the ‘Scène aux champs’ making suddenly appear a nocturnal country landscape where two shepherds carry on a dialogue on their pipes. First performed in March 2009 inits original version for English Horn Violin and Cello the Lyric Interlude for English Horn and Piano (Op.110b) nonetheless proclaims another tradition: that of British pastoralism illustrated by the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) the 50th anniversary of his death having just been celebrated. This score pays him homage of rare sensitivity: set off by refined counterpoint the undulating lament of the beginning rhythmically supple evokes the waving wheat as does Vaughan Williams in the opening undulation of his Symphony No.3. The lyrical effusion briefly interrupted by a scherzo in 6/8 again pours out making the work evolve towards a slow ecstatic atmosphere close to the last of the English composer’s Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes. Far from bucolic postcard clichés and servile imitation this Lyric Interlude opens the doors to a realm where pure beauty reigns. The composer also wrote another version of this work for English Horn (or Flute Clarinet or Viola) Violin and Cello Op.110a (AL 30 751)

Description A fantastic collection of solos for the English Horn player. Transcribed and edited by Thomas Stacy for Horn with piano accompaniment. Featured pieces includes Faure's Sicilienne , Borodin's Notturno and Mozart's Adagio K.58a . Songlist Adagio [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Gymnopedie No.1 [Satie, Erik] Intermezzo (Granados) Largo (Symphony No.9 In E Minor 'From The New World' Op.95) [Dvorak, Antonin] Nocturne [Borodin, Alexander] Sicilienne Sonata (Marcello) Sonata (Telemann) Swan Of Tuonela,The (Sibelius) The Swan (Le Cygne) Tristan And Isolde Theme-wagner When I Am Laid In Earth Where E'er You Walk [Handel, George Frideric]