Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH / JONES NATHAN (Arr.). Tchaikovsky composed his twelve character pieces for piano, The Seasons, while he was writing his popular ballet, Swan Lake. Each piece in The Seasons depicts a different month of the year in Russia. The original publication of September: The Hunt included an epigraph at the start of the piece-a small poem by Alexander Pushkin. This energetic arrangement for symphonic band by Nathan Jones opens with an octave fanfare between the winds and brass. Tchaikovsky\'s colorful harmony speaks here, with passing chromaticism adding color to the music. The fanfare theme is transformed in the quiet central section, still shifting to the minor mode with short solo passages for flute, bassoon, trumpet, xylophone and oboe (cued in flutes). The segue back into the opening fanfare is clever, with the notes leading through several keys before concluding in the major with a short reprise of the initial theme. / Date parution : 2022-09-20/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Concertante Variations on an original theme after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Par DE HAAN JAN. Pour cette ?uvre, le compositeur Jan de Haan s?est inspiré de cinq peintures exposées à l?Ermitage de Saint-Pétersbourg, l?un des plus grands musées du monde. Il a employé comme point de départ l?émouvant Andante cantabile du Quatuor pour cordes, Op. 11 du compositeur russe Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski. Il a ainsi créé sa propre peinture musicale, qui est tout aussi variée que les toiles qui l?ont inspirée ? de « Joyeuse compagnie dans une taverne », de Dirck Hals, à « La Danse II », de Henri Matisse. Une véritable ?uvre d?art ! / Date parution : 2022-07-28/ Répertoire / Fanfare