SKU: CN.S11042

This symphonic sketch for concert band is packed full different motives thrown around the ensemble hinting at the programmatic leitmotifs of Wagner. Every section of the ensemble gets a workout in this delightful 10-minute work.

A Symphonic Sketch for Concert Band. The resurgence of interest in George Lloyd's music must give us faith that such talent will ultimately prevail against sometimes unhappy circumstances. Lloyd was Cornish and showed precocious gifts at an early age - he had completed his first symphony by the age of nineteen. During the 1930s he completed two operas, one of which - The Serf - was produced at Covent Garden in 1938. He was set for a glittering career as a composer. The Second World War intervened and he was invalidad out of the Navy in a shell-shocked state, and having written very little serious music since 1937 went to Switzerland to recuperate, looked after by his wife, Nancy. Painfully, he began writing again - symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 - and then returned to England. He needed to earn a living and he set up a mushroom farm in Dorset. But slowly he began to compose again and drafted more symphonies in short score. By this time he was virtually unknown - despite being considered the equal of Walton, Britten, and other young stars of English music some 30 years earlier. Lloyd decided to embark on a series of recordings of his symphonies, and slowly popular acclaim enabled him to regain his position. The Forest of Arden was written in 1987 as a result of a commission by the Solihull Youth Wind Band. Although Lloyd's music feels instinctively written one should not be misled - it is carefully crafted, but the craft and structure are always subordinated to create a flow with a strongly melodic content. Instead of two or three themes, The Forest of Arden contains an abundance of ideas which can be described in two groups. The first group contains the opening rhythmic motif, quickly developed into a short rising quaver passage in the woodwinds, and later then a chromatic ostinato bass - only 8 bars at this stage but later expanded. The second group is broad and expansive, initially based on intervals of rising fifths introduced by euphonium, tubas, and baritone saxophone, immediately echoed by horns. Low brass and winds expand the theme into rising sixths and octaves. There is a hint of development, bit this is arrested as the music moves to a piu tranquillo section introduced by the alto saxophone which further develops the rising sixth theme. There follows a true development of the opening material, starting with the ostinato bass and gradually passing through different tonal centers until the rising fifths of the second theme group are heralded - fortissimo and poco piu largamente shortly before the end. The structure is almost Wagnerian (albeit on a much smaller scale), with themes being used as leitmotifs, but this is music which, even within the space of ten minutes is conceived on a grand design.

SKU: PR.11540217F

UPC: 680160625710. 9 x 12 inches.

SKU: TM.05146SET

Wagner Tubas = Tenor Tuba I and II, Bass Tuba I and II. Actual Tuba listed on part as Contrabass Tuba.

SKU: SU.90810030

Instrumentation: 2fl, picc, 2ob, 3cl*, 2bs-cl, 2bn; 2a-sax, t-sax, b-sax; 4hn, 6tpt, 3tbn, 2euph, 2tba; timp, 6perc, string-bass (*at least 2 per part) Duration: 9' Full Score & Parts: available for sale (#90810031) Composed: 1998 Published by: Subito Music Publishing ... a high-energy score .... The music drives hard from its opening to a lullaby-like woodwind passage about two-thirds of the way through. The dreaminess is dispatched by the arrival of a snare drum that slowly ratchets the excitement level back to that of the work's opening. --Fanfare Magazine.

SKU: CY.CC3117

ISBN 9790530110959. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

Sonata XII or (Sonata Duodecima a sette) by Baroque composer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer was originally composed in 7 parts and is part of a group of works of his entitled Sacro-Profanus Concentus. This gorgeous arrangement of about 4 minutes in length by Adam Woolf is scored for 10 brass in two choirs of 5 in the key of B-flat and is appropriate for advanced performers. Instrumentation is for: 4 Trumpets in B-flat, Horn, 3 Trombones, 2 Tubas with substitute part for Horn.

SKU: CY.CC2840

Venus and Mercury movements from the Planets Suite are now available for sale to supplement your present package of 4 movements, or just to order the two movements alone.
Brilliantly transcribed by Ralph Sauer for 14-part Brass Ensemble and Percussion, these two movements will finish off your collection perfectly, or make a lovely 15 minute mini-suite.
This package has been discounted from purchasing the movements separately.
For advanced performers.
Instrumentation is for:
4 Trumpets in C (parts include Piccolo and Flugelhorn in B-flat)
4 Horns
3 Trombones
Euphonium (Tenor Tuba), 2 Tubas
Timpani and Glockenspiel.

SKU: CY.CC2838

Mercury, The Winged Messenger, written in 1916 is the 3rd movement of Gustav Holst's iconic 7-movement suite. It is light, flitting and scherzando in style.
Mr. Sauer has used a very ingenious scoring technique for the brass to keep the music flowing for the very fast, long phrases used by the composer.
* 4 minutes in length for advanced performers.
Instrumentation is for:
4 Trumpets in C (1st part includes Piccolo)
4 Horns
3 Trombones
Euphonium (Tenor Tuba), 2 Tubas
Timpani and Glockenspiel
Mr. Sauer has also transcribed other selections (also available on this site) from Holst's Planets Suite including:
Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Uranus.

SKU: HD.BASS2

SKU: TE.TEP10672

SKU: TE.TEP10817

SKU: TE.TEP11018

SKU: KN.18170

UPC: 822795181708.