Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 4 (Miniature Score) | 0711933537 | CH60875 - Sheet Music

product id: 1947
Composer/Artist: Davies, Peter Maxwell
Arrangement: clarinet, orchestra
Product type: Instrumental work
Media: Sheet Music
Pages: 88
Genre: Post-1900
Language: English
Expected shipping time: 14 days
Price: 28.95 euro

Davies's feeling for the potency and bravura of the clarinet goes back to works of the 1960s; his concerto for the instrument is predictably a big, ranging piece, in two linked movements. The first, fast with a brief slow introduction, has the soloist in propulsive melodic flights slipping over into florid runs, but it is a virtuoso piece for the orchestra, especially for the marimba and pair of horns. The Adagio that follows is in the spare, cold, birdcall-riven style of other recent Davies slow movements, exploiting first the clarinet's low register and then, at its climax, the instrument's high extremes. A cadenza leads to the coda, where Davies introduces a Scots tune, previously hinted at, with which he brings the work to an end in F sharp major.
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