Chamber Music Piccolo 1,
Piccolo 2, Piccolo 3
SKU: PR.114419920
Composed by Julia
Grenfell. Set of Score
and Parts. 16+8+8+8
pages. Duration 9
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41992.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419920).
ISBN
9781491134665. UPC:
680160685257.
Have
you ever yearned to
perform a whole bunch of
great piccolo orchestral
excerpts all in one
concert, programming the
music yourself, without
waiting through the tacet
movements, and without a
loud brass section behind
you? Julia
Grenfell’s PICCOLO
RIDICOLO is a beautifully
theatrical medley of
favorite orchestral solos
from Tchaikovsky to
Beethoven to Ravel,
scored for piccolo trio.
The three players rotate
equally between the lead
part and the
accompaniment to share
the fun (and terror). The
9-minute work celebrates
10 favorite piccolo
highlights, and
more!.
The prototype
for Piccolo Ridicolo was
first created for a joint
piccolo recital at the
Australian Flute Festival
in Brisbane, July 2017.
The recital was performed
by the three piccoloists
from the Sydney,
Melbourne and Adelaide
Symphony Orchestras:
Rosamund Plummer (SSO),
Andrew Macleod (MSO), and
me (ASO).When searching
for a final piece that we
could all play together
as a trio, I came up a
little short. Who would
have guessed there would
be so little repertoire
for three piccolos? Thus
the idea for Piccolo
Ridicolo was born
– a celebratory
and humorous
collaboration for three
piccolos, with much debt
and apologies owed to
Rossini, Beethoven,
Tchaikovsky, and
more.Thank you Andrew and
Rose for being my first
guinea pigs, my ASO flute
colleagues for various
road tests, my sister
Maria Grenfell for her
initial typesetting, and
my mentor Leone Buyse for
encouraging me to seek
publication of the
piece.
My First Tchaikovsky
