Playing Score

SKU: HL.1190004

For Horn and Guitar Playing Score. Composed by Kenneth Fuchs. E.B. Marks. Softcover. Edward B. Marks Music #MP625001. Published by Edward B. Marks Music (HL.1190004).

ISBN 9781705192498. UPC: 196288131717.

From the composer: Evensong was composed at the request of my friend David Wick, principal hornist of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. He asked that I compose a recital piece for him to play with the orchestra's music director, JoAnn Falletta, who is also a virtuoso guitarist. The only stipulation he made was that the work include fragments of one of his favorite melodies, “Lasst mich alle”, from Four Songs, Op. 82, by Antonín Dvorák. The melody is also quoted in the Adagio movement of Dvorák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191. The music is absolute in nature and cast in the form of a single movement fantasy based loosely on Dvorák’s melody, which is stated at the outset and at the conclusion.