Sinfonietta
Wind Band |
Composition |
Grade |
4 - 5 |
Duration |
13.00 |
Keywords |
Contest & Festival |
Sinfonietta is a three movement work, which is technically and expressively demanding but written within the realms of tonal language.
(I) Dance with the Devil
Duration |
4.31 |
Grade |
5 |
- Dance with the Devil
The first two movements are a transition from dark to light; Dance with the Devil is aggressive and occasionally macabre whereas A Glimpse of Paradise is serene.
(II) A Glimpse of Paradise
Duration |
4.42 |
Grade |
4 |
- A Glimpse of Paradise
The first and final parts of the second movement were originally written for a sequence in the Royal Military Tattoo 2000, played under the John Magee poem High Flight – ‘Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth ............ Put out my hand, and touched the face of God’- with videos of eagle owls in flight dramatically projected onto the buildings of Horse Guards in Whitehall, London.
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(III) Reyes Magos
Duration |
3.40 |
Grade |
5 |
- Reyes Magos
The last movement, Reyes Magos, is the joyous fiesta of the Three Kings. I wrote Sinfonietta while living in Spain and there January 6th, rather than Christmas Day, is the main day of present-giving, marking the Epiphany, the arrival of the Kings from the Orient at the Nativity.
Published by TradeWinds
Recorded on Sinfonietta DOY CD330.
Complete £124.95