Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble
This piece is about the development of melodic motifs taken from the Blackbird folksong. At the start we hear two phrases of the Blackbird melody, the first eight notes, answered by the last sixteen. Like the definition of arboretum, the arboriculture is the...
Chamber Music, Children's Music, Ensemble, Keyboard, Narrated, Narrator & Chamber Ensemble, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble
Also available in the following versions: Symphony Orchestra. Opus 73 Chamber Orchestra. Opus 73b Symphonic Wind Band. Opus 73c Narrator (1-3) and Solo Piano. Opus 73d Narrator and 11 Instruments. Opus 73e PLEASE SEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VERSION FOR SOUND SAMPLES and...
Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble
I. Gusty; II. Blowing Blue; III. Sea Breeze This piece was commissioned by the London Saxophone Quartet for the 5th World Saxophone Congress, held in London in 1976. The three movements are each named after a different “wind” which depict different aspects...
Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble
I. Scrumpy Giles; II. Widecombe Jan; III. Lazy Lawrence; IV. The Looe Bar Lady Westerly Winds, commissioned by the Galliard Ensemble in 1999, is a recasting for wind quintet of the orchestral Four Rustic Sketches. It is essentially a sequence of four short fantasias...
Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble
I. Prelude: Allegro spiritoso; II. Soliloquy: Andantino; III. Blues: Slow, relaxed; IV. Hornpipe That Paul Patterson’s music possessed a razor-sharp sense of humour was already evident in his op.1, Rebecca (1965). By 1972, however, when the Comedy for five winds...
Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble
The Wind Quintet of 1967, written when Patterson was still a 20-year old student composer at the Royal Academy of Music, was first performed by the Nash Ensemble at the San Remo Festival in August 1967 and won second prize in the National Composers’ Competition. A...
