Trombone Trio & Piano
accompaniment - advanced
SKU: CY.CC2775
Composed by Lyndol
Mitchell. Edited by
Jeremy Kempton. American
20th Century. Solo parts
and Piano accompaniment.
Published by Cherry
Classics (CY.CC2775).
The Concerto
Grosso for Three
Trombones with Piano
accompaniment by Lindol
Mitchell is a realization
for Piano of the original
orchestral score by
Jeremy Niles Kempton. The
original orchestral work
was composed in 1961 as
part of Mitchell's
Doctoral dissertation at
the Eastman School of
Music and was first
performed in 1963 at a
memorial concert for the
composer after his
untimely death. The solo
performers were nine
students of Emory
Remington, including
Ralph Sauer and Donald
King.
The work
is is subtitled in
stile Barocco and is
in three movements.
Movement I
begins with an somber
introductory Adagio
followed by an Allegro in
the style of a Bach Fugue
led by the three
soloists.
Movement II is
a slow and serious
Larghetto in C
minor.
Movement
III is a Presto in D
minor in a Toccata style
and is full of many mixed
meter bars that add
little little rhythmic
surprises along the
way.
The
13-minute work is
appropriate for advanced
performers.
The
hand copied score and
parts Concerto Grosso
were rediscovered in the
Sibley Library at the
Eastman School of Music
by Jeremy Kempton who
then engraved and proofed
them. He performed the
work in 2011 with
colleagues for the first
time since its premier in
1963.
