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Concerto for Piano No. 3
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-364526-4
31 March 1969
Price: Available on request
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This is a work where the solo piano is the dominating partner, the orchestra playing a mainly subordinate role. Thematic material is divided evenly between soloist and orchestra, and much of the development of the music is carried on through the orchestral texture, the soloist adding bravura and ornamental decoration. Forces or CategorySolo piano & full orchestraDuration24 minutesDifficultyModerately difficult to
DifficultOrchestrationpn solo, 3 fl (III+picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, bcl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 2 tbn, btbn, timp, 3 perc (xylo, crotales, 2 bongos, Chinese blk, vib, glock, tamb, cym, whip, tam, claves, SD, bells, gong, BD, toms, marac, sus cym), hp, cel, str
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Alun Hoddinott (1929-2008) Alun Hoddinott was born in Glamorganshire in 1929. His compositional talents developed early, and he won a university scholarship at the age of sixteen. In 1951 he was appointed Lecturer in Music at the Welsh College of Music and Drama; he later became lecturer at University College, Cardiff and was made Professor and Head of Department there in 1967.
Hoddinott achieved a mastery of composition which embraced almost every musical medium. His strong creative urge, stimulated by a tremendous variety of eminent performers, is reflected in a substantial body of works. Essentially chromatic, his music often shows a dark Celtic intensity, manifested in his nocturnal slow movements.
As former Professor of Music at University College, Cardiff, and Artistic Director of the Cardiff Festival, he had considerable influence in awakening interest in contemporary music in South Wales.
Alun Hoddinott died in Wales in March 2008 at the age of 78.
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"Like Hoddinott's piano sonatas it is tense, concentrated, and economical. The piano part is aggressively brilliant...has a fine impetus." - Gerald Larner, The Guardian "Alun Hoddinott's Concerto was impressive. It was vital, crip and clear-cut, full of rhythmic invention and lively orchestration, and a certain sterness of thought." - Musical Opinion
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