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Re-Inventions
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-355524-2
27 April 1995
Price: Available on request
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for wind quintet (oboe doubles cor anglais, clarinet doubles bass clarinet)
A skilful arrangement of four of Bach's keyboard Inventions, each separated by a short meditation for one or two of the instruments which link the work into a continuous whole. Forces or CategoryWind quintetDuration12 minutesDifficultyModerately difficult to DifficultOrchestrationfl, ob (+ca), cl
(+bcl), hn, bnProgramme NotesOne of my favourite pastimes is playing through the keyboard music of J S Bach, and I am especially fond of his two and three-part inventions. I decided to arrange four of them for wind quintet, using my own ornamentation.
In the case of the second piece, in Eb, I had the impudence to be slightly dissatisfied with the ending, so restructured the piece by means of a repeated passage, to give a greater sense of conclusion. Having completed this task for my own amusement, Peter Cropper asked if I could also create some original material to complement the Bach for a concert that was being given by the Haffner Wind Quintet as part of the Sheffield Festival in
May 1995. Using a modicum of common sense, I decided that it would be tempting providence to try to set any contrapuntal ideas of my own against those of Johann Sebastian. So instead, I have given each of the instruments a short line that meditates on what has just passed, or on what is just about to happen. However, it was always my intention that the music could either be performed as a continuous whole or as straightforward transcriptions without the interlinking commentaries.
© Michael Berkeley
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Michael Berkeley (b.1948) Michael Berkeley was born in 1948. He studied composition, singing, and piano at the Royal Academy of Music but it was not until his late twenties, when he went to study with Richard Rodney Bennett, that Berkeley began to concentrate exclusively on composing. In 1977 he was awarded the Guinness Prize for Composition; two years later he was appointed Associate Composer to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Since then Michael's music has been played all over the globe and by some of the world's finest musicians. Most of Michael's significant orchestral work, much of his chamber music and his operas are available on CD as part of the Chandos Berkeley Edition. For ten years from 1995
Michael was artistic director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. He currently presents Radio 3's Private Passions, which won the Broadcasting Press Guild's Radio Programme of the Year Award in 1996, and is Chairman of the Governors of The Royal Ballet.Michael Berkeley's website
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