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Capricci
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-358323-8
01 June 1995
Price: Available on request
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for wind quintet
Capricci plays without breaks. It falls clearly into three movements, the beginning with its horn-calls and echoes, returning in the second movement and at the end. The first movement sets two different musics against one another, bright bell-like chords, and 'birdsong' over long pedal-notes. A slow movement follows, mainly lyrical but with an unexpectedly violent middle section; the return of the lyrical music leads to a scherzo-finale. Forces or CategoryWind quintetDuration15
minutesDifficultyDifficultOrchestrationfl, ob, cl, bn, hnProgramme NotesIt was after hearing my Second String Quartet that Nic Daniel asked if I would write a work for his wind ensemble, and I began by planning a piece that would have the same "weight" as a string quartet. In the event the piece is, perhaps, more playful and its structure rather sectional, hence the title.
Capricci plays without breaks for about 15 minutes. It falls clearly into three movements, the beginning with its horn-calls
and echoes, returning in the second movement and at the end. The first movement sets two different musics against one another, bright bell-like chords, and "birdsong" over long pedal-notes. A slow movement follows, mainly lyrical but with an unexpectedly violent middle section; the return of the lyrical music leads to a scherzo-finale, similar in mood and form to that of the Second Quartet. So in a sense the work which provoked the commissioning of this one does find a counterpart here after all.
Capricci was composed in Summer 1994. It was commissioned by the Haffner Wind Ensemble of London with funds provided by the Arts Council of England. The Haffner Ensemble gave the first performance at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music on 5 July 1995.
© Anthony
Powers
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Anthony Powers (b.1953) Born in London in 1953, Anthony Powers studied at Oxford, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and at York with David Blake and Bernard Rands. He taught for two years at Dartington College of Arts before being appointed Composer-in-Residence to Southern Arts. Since then he has moved to Herefordshire where he continues to divide his time between composing and teaching, currently at Cardiff University, where he has been Professor of composition since 2004.
Powers's music is characterized by strong architectonic frameworks that support a language of poetic intensity and magical sonorities. His music often takes its inspiration from the tension between different states, be they physical properties, landscapes, seasons or emotions.Anthony Powers at Cardiff University
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"From the magically scored horn calls at the beginning, it generates a dramatic and emotional interest whcih transcends the usual limitations of the medium." - Gerald Larner, The Times
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