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Concertino
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-355761-1
07 November 1985
Price: Available on request
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for chamber orchestra Forces or CategoryChamber orchestraDuration14 minutesDifficultyDifficultOrchestrationfl (+picc), ob (+ca), cl (+Ebcl), bn, hn, tpt, tbn, perc (claves, vib, bongos, 3 tom, marac, cas, 3 temp blk, w blk, wood chimes), fpn (+cel&w blk), 2 vln, vla, vc, dbProgramme
NotesConcertino was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and was completed in 1983 the first performance taking place later that year during the Zig-Zag series at IRCAM in Paris.
The initial impetus for the work came from an expression Charles Ives used: a kind of furious calm although as it turned out, the piece is neither of these things. The paradox does serve, however, to point up its most important feature: long sustained melodic lines embedded in a frenzied, if delicate, decorative haze.
The suppressed, accumulated energy of this haze eventually forces the melody to take on more rigid characters rather like sand flung centrifugally against the walls of its spinning container. By the end of the piece the
lock-alternation of these characters becomes all-important although one of them (using trombone, piano and maracas) has been there all along without change.
The climax of the piece comes with a dance-like pot-pourri of the principal melodic ideas. A quiet coda follows, built from wisps of decorative activity and bell-like octaves, until finally, no longer able to sustain itself, the texture evaporates into thin air.
© Martin Butler
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Martin Butler (b.1960) Martin Butler was born in Romsey, England, in 1960 and studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University, USA, where he was resident until 1987. From 1998-1999 Martin was Composer-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in the United States. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of Sussex.
Butler's works are widely performed and broadcast both in the UK and abroad.More on Martin Butler from the British Music Information Centre
Martin Butler at the University of Sussex
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""...it spins with characterful solos for everybody, usually couched within a complex interweave that is perfectly imagined. The ideas grow towards clarity and definition...the work has a life and a brilliance of its own." (Paul Griffiths, The Times)"
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