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| Classical Composer: | Maxwell Davies, Peter |
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| Work: | Strathclyde Concerto No. 10, Op.179 |
| Year Composed: | 1996 |
| Instrumentation: | 2+picc 2+ca 2+bcl 2+cbn - 2 2 0 0, timp, str |
| Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes |
| Duration: | 00:35:00 |
| Period: | Contemporary |
| Work Category: | Concerto |
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This is a concerto for orchestra, in three movements.
The first, Allegro non troppo, is on a symphonic scale, turbulent and urgent, with maximum virtuosity required of all members of the orchestra-even back-desk string players find themselves suddenly spotlit, playing chords alone. Particularly demanding are the cadenzas and flourishes for horns, trumpets and timpani.
The second movement is slow, with gentle triple-time rhythms (lower strings, pizzicato), and long melodies on flute and alto flute-led by questing horn and trumpet calls into an elegiac and intense middle section, scored first for strings along, then with an extended cor anglais solo and finally for full orchestra. A varied reprise of the movement's opening is again heralded by horns and trumpets.
The finale starts with the kind of melody (on piccolo) with which such concerto cycles should perhaps end-cheerful and perky, suggestive of a type of Gaelic gathering known as a ceilidh. I took great pleasure in undermining and splintering this figure before subjecting it to a most thorough sequence of transformations: the blaze of celebratory E major triumphalism is dissolved on a calm B flat major triad, which triggers not direct quotes from all the previous Strathclyde Concertos, played by their respective soloists, in order, but treatments of the material of this concerto to suggest its predecessors-pure nostalgia! The close is, indeed, triumphant, but not absolutely-I have left the door ajar for further concertos, for further music with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Writer: Peter Maxwell Davies
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