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The music makes reference in pastiche to composers forever associated with these cities, from Gershwin (New York) to Satie (Paris), ensuring a familiarity for the performer and listener alike.
The collection is progressively graded, making it suitable for beginners through to performers at medium advanced level.
Cityscapes is available for Horn in F and for any Bb or Eb instruments (Bb and Eb versions supplied with both treble and bass clef soloist parts - F version treble clef only).
Available MultiMedia FilesWe are delighted to present this collection of solos for Cornet.
The contents are for advanced (and in some cases virtuoso) players in mind and although designated as a Cornet Album the titles within are (mostly) equally suitable for Trumpet.
Contents:We are delighted to present this collection of solos for Euphonium.
The solos are for advanced (and in some cases virtuoso) players in mind and include solo adaptations of two of Gramercy Music's most requested titles, together with two titles taken from “classical” literature.
Contents:We are now delighted to present this collection which brings together fourteen of these pieces in a single volume for the first time.
A variety of music has been included; from concert openers, hymn tune arrangements and classical transcriptions to extended concert music and advanced test-pieces. Should you need added incentive to practice, all of the items exist in readily available recorded formats, so why not load up your favourite band and play along?
Collection includes:
Summon the Dragon, Rondeau, Windows of the World, Gaelforce, Hine e Hine, On Alderley Edge, Procession to the Cathedral, Seize the Day, Dear Lord and Father (Repton), Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Shine as the Light, On the Shoulders of Giants, The Torchbearer and Swedish Folk Song.
Please select above Cornet, Horn or Euphonium.
Volume I included a variety of music; from concert openers, hymn tune arrangements and classical transcriptions to extended concert music and advanced test-pieces.
Volume II focuses exclusively on the latter, presenting some of our most challenging material.
Collection includes:
Angels & Demons, Dynasty, Harrison's Dream, Hyperlink, Metropolis 1927, The 39th Parallel, The Red Machine and The Triumph of Time.
Please select above Cornet, Horn, Trombone or Euphonium.
Available MultiMedia FilesWe are delighted to present this collection of solos for Tenor Horn. The solos are for advanced (and in some cases virtuoso) players in mind and although designed for Tenor Horn most of the pieces are suitable for any Eb instrument.
Contents:In League with Extraordinary Gentlemen combines two of composer Peter Graham's life interests - composition and 19th century popular fiction. Each of the concerto’s three movements takes its musical inspiration from extraordinary characters who have transcended the original genre and have subsequently found mass audiences through film, television and comic book adaptations.
The first movement follows a traditional sonata form outline with one slight modification. The order of themes in the recapitulation is reversed, mirroring a plot climax in the H.G. Wells novella The Time Machine (where the protagonist, known only as The Time Traveller, puts his machine into reverse bringing the story back full circle).
The Adventure of the Final Problem is the title of a short story published in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is an account of the great detective’s final struggle with his long-time adversary Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. The music takes the form of a slowed down ländler (a Swiss/Austrian folk dance) and various acoustic and electronic echo effects call to mind the alpine landscape. The final bars pose a question paralleling that of Conan Doyle in the story – have we really seen the last of Sherlock Holmes?
The final movement, The Great Race, follows Phileas Fogg on the last stage of his epic journey “Around the World in Eighty Days” (from the novel by Jules Verne). The moto perpetuo nature of the music gives full rein to the soloist’s technical virtuosity. As the work draws to a conclusion, the frantic scramble by Fogg to meet his deadline at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, London, is echoed by the soloist’s increasingly demanding ascending figuration, set against the background of Big Ben clock chimes.
In League with Extraordinary Gentlemen was first performed by Steven Mead and the Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band, conductor Kazuhiko Komatsu, in The Symphony Hall Osaka, Japan, on June 6, 2008.
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Performed by Zoe Hancock (Flugel Horn) and Katrina Marzella (Baritone Horn) with The Black Dyke Band, Music Director Nicholas Childs.
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Extracts performed by Alexis Demailly (cornet) and Bastien Baumet (euphonium) with the Paris Brass Band, conductor Florent Didier.
Full recording available on Portraits from World of Brass.com
The work is set in three movements, each introduced by a pastiche radio announcer narrative written by Philip Coutts. The first, City Noir, is a nod towards Raymond Chandler's eponymous private eye Philip Marlow and the dark cityscape of 1940s California.
Movement two, Cafe Rouge, takes its title from the main restaurant in New York's famous Hotel Pennsylvania. Two of the most famous band leaders of the 1940s, trombonists Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, broadcast live from the cafe on numerous occasions and the movement echoes with a collage of imagined sounds from the period.
The finale, Two-Minute Mile, derives from an event dubbed in the USA as "the most exciting two minutes in sport", namely the Kentucky Derby. The virtuoso soloist figurations have their roots in Kentucky bluegrass fiddle music, with the galloping bluegrass clog-dancing rhythms providing the backdrop.
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Extracts performed by Brett Baker (trombone) with the Black Dyke Band, conductor Dr Nicholas Childs.
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Extract performed by Lucy Murphy (Flugel Horn) and Leah Williams (Tenor Horn) with the Brighouse and Rastrick Band, conductor David King.
Full recording available on War of the Worlds - The Music of Peter Graham from World of Brass.com
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Extracts performed by Stuart Lingard and the Brighouse and Rastrick Band, conductor David King.
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Turbulence, Tide and Torque can be considered to be a companion piece to my 2008 Euphonium Concerto In League with Extraordinary Gentlemen, and indeed can be performed on Euphonium (vintage or medium bore instrument preferred). Whereas the gentlemen in question in the latter work were fictional (e.g. Sherlock Holmes and Phileas Fogg), the former pays tribute to three real life women who were very much true pioneers and heroines of their age.
Turbulence: Harriet Quimby (b. 1875) was one of the world's best woman aviators, her significant and historic achievement being the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Sadly, in her lifetime very few people were aware of her 1912 accomplishment; potential press coverage was dominated by the sinking of The Titanic only two days before.Grace Darling (b. 1815) is a name much more familiar to the public today, and in her lifetime she was lauded as a national heroine. A humble lighthouse keeper's daughter from Northumberland, her participation in the rescue of survivors from the wrecked paddle-steamer Forfarshire is well documented (a museum dedicated to her achievements located in Bamburgh, the town of her birth). This movement, Tide, develops a main theme from my large scale work Harrison's Dream, reflecting on the souls lost in the disaster.
The final movement Torque, opens with a sudden gear change such as might have been undertaken by Dorothy Levitt (b. 1882), the woman's world land speed record holder, in her Napier racing car. Levitt, who following her 1906 record-breaking achievement was described as the Fastest Girl on Earth, went on to write extensively about her experiences, encouraging females to take up motoring through her articles in The Graphic newpaper.
Turbulence, Tide and Torque was commissioned by and is dedicated to Katrina Marzella as part of an Arts Council of England funded residency I was awarded with the Black Dyke Band in 2018.
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Extracts performed by Katrina Marzella (baritone) with the Black Dyke Band, conductor Dr Nicholas Childs.
Full recording available on Spotlight from World of Brass.com