Concerto romano
[ob,orch] 1960 duration: 18' solo: ob – 2(picc).0.2.2 – 4.3.3.1 – timp.perc(3) – str
Description
I composed Concerto Romano during my first scholarship in Rome at Villa Massimo in the fall of 1960. In doing so, I attempted to open up a new musical realm of expression by combining emotional sound movement with a strict modern compositional structure (using a punctual and serial approach). Although the titles of the three movements refer to their “material” origins, they do not indicate a program, but rather refer primarily to the structure.
1. Mosaic: a strictly ordered system of different timbral dots and lines, comparable to the ornaments of Roman Cosmatesque floors.
2. Cicadas: a rhythmically polyphonic series, inspired by the successive creaking or chirping of crickets.
3. Corso: a musical stroll in seven sections through the city of seven hills. A three-note motif is presented as an introduction, developed and varied like a leitmotif that recurs in all three movements and binds the entire concerto together. The solo instrument is assigned a part that is as demanding as it is rewarding, culminating in a virtuoso cadenza before the stretta of the finale.
(Jürg Baur)
EB 6334
piano reduction
ob,pno
EAN: 9790004166659
50 pages / 23 x 30.5 cm / 164 g / softcover
MM 2304116
hire material
Description
Description
I composed Concerto Romano during my first scholarship in Rome at Villa Massimo in the fall of 1960. In doing so, I attempted to open up a new musical realm of expression by combining emotional sound movement with a strict modern compositional structure (using a punctual and serial approach). Although the titles of the three movements refer to their “material” origins, they do not indicate a program, but rather refer primarily to the structure.
1. Mosaic: a strictly ordered system of different timbral dots and lines, comparable to the ornaments of Roman Cosmatesque floors.
2. Cicadas: a rhythmically polyphonic series, inspired by the successive creaking or chirping of crickets.
3. Corso: a musical stroll in seven sections through the city of seven hills. A three-note motif is presented as an introduction, developed and varied like a leitmotif that recurs in all three movements and binds the entire concerto together. The solo instrument is assigned a part that is as demanding as it is rewarding, culminating in a virtuoso cadenza before the stretta of the finale.
(Jürg Baur)
World premiere
World premiere: Münster, February 19, 1961
Discography
Otto Winter (oboe), Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, cond. Hanns-Martin Schneidt
CD Thorofon CTH 2270
CD (excerpts): Manfred Zeh (oboe), NDR Symphony Orchestra, cond. Reinhard Peters
CD BMG 74321 73550 2