Concert Band - Grade 4
SKU: PE.0300761775
Arranged for Concert
Band. Composed by
Eriks Esenvalds. Arranged
by Phillip Littlemore.
Concert Band. Edition
Peters. Hymn; Living
Composer. Score and
Part(s). 166 pages.
Edition Peters
#98-0300761775. Published
by Edition Peters
(PE.0300761775).
ISBN
9790300761770.
Long
Road is a setting of a
love poem by Paulina
Barda (widow of the
eminent poet Fricis
Barda), who died in 1983
at the age of
ninety-three; set in the
original Latvian, it was
Ešenvalds'
contribution to Love
madrigals, a collection
of new commissions to
celebrate the twentieth
anniversary of the
remarkable youth choir
Kamer . . . , and this
English version was
specially made for
Stephen Layton and
Polyphony, to whom it is
dedicated. It has the
plain sincerity of a
hymn, being homophonic
throughout, and its
thorough-going
diatonicism is
straightforward yet lush.
At the midway point, a
gentle susurration of
bell-sounds and ocarinas
appears unexpectedly,
there is a brief
downwards shift of a
third, followed by an
elated return to the home
key, decorated by
soloistic descants,
before sustained vocalise
and a return of the
evanescent tinkling
ushers the piece to its
close. (5:10) Original
Item: EP68714-CMPST.