Concerto for bass tuba and orchestra

ISBN-13: 9780193386761 / Angielski / Nuty / 2012 / 36 str.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Opis

Reduction for tuba and piano of the Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra, composed in 1953-4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the LSO and written for the orchestra's principal tuba player, Philip Catelinet. It was the first major concerto to be written for the instrument, and remains today the outstanding work of its kind. The concerto has three short movements lasting around thirteen minutes, and the central movement, Romanza, is remarkable for its outpouring of sustained, lyrical melody. This new edition is based on all extant sources and contains full textual notes and notes on the editorial method. It contains corrections and adds obvious omissions of dynamics and phrasing. It also presents the original, mainly legato phrasing in the Romanza alongside that first published, and the original cadenza to the first movement.

O autorze

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.