SKU: FG.55011-390-9
ISBN 9790550113909.
Sche rzo from Op. 4 is a charming presto for string orchestra. It is based on the third movement of Sibelius's String Quartet B-flat major, on which the composer added a double bass part. The premiere of the string orchestra version took place on 17 February 1894 in Turku, composer conducting. Reviews were enthusiastic: Sibelius's music appeared in its most beautiful splendor and instrumental brilliance in the Presto movement, where the singing motive was carried out with charm and beauty - -, cascades of diligently and brilliantly composed scherzo-figures and melodies [give a] thoroughly delightful and frisky, lively character..
SKU: CY.CC2529
Andrew Poirier has brilliantly transcribed for Brass Quintet the Scherzo from String Quartet in D, Opus 11. This work of about 7 minutes in length can be performed by advanced musicians. The Scherzo is bouncy, tuneful, fun to listen to and great entertainment for your audience.
SKU: FG.55011-389-3
ISBN 9790550113893.
SKU: HL.48024788
ISBN 9781784545314. UPC: 888680967536. 9x12 inches.
This characteristically ever-evolving, single (29-minute) movement bears the remarkable title Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, which is that of a book of essays by Birtwistle's friend Robert Maxwell... The composer must not be “too precisein every part”, a frequent failing of the post-Schoenbergian serial music on which Birtwistle cut his teeth. But his own imaginationhas never subordinated itself to mathematics, and certainly doesn't in this turbulent, scherzo-like, brilliantly multilayered score (a melodic thread always on hand to lead us through the maze of invention)... the soloist-and-tutti relationship, Birtwistle's abiding concern, went into a dazzling new dimension.
