Brilliant Brass
Sunday
11.02.2024
11:00 — Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Patron
Programme
Julia HeirichCharles Pierronhorn
Olivier BombrunGiuliano SommerhalderGabriel QuinteroClaude-Alain BarmazLaurent Fabretrumpet
Matteo de LucaAlexandre FaureVincent Métraillertrombone
Raphaël Lemairetrombone basse
Ross Knighttuba
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzona noni toni a 12, arrangement for brass ensemble (Eric Crees)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio No. 5 & No. 12, BWV 248, arrangement for brass ensemble (Giuliano Sommerhalder)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major BWV 1048, arrangement for brass ensemble (Christopher Mowat)
William Byrd
The Earle of Oxford's March, arrangement for brass ensemble (Elgar Howarth)
John Glenesk Mortimer
Suite parisienne, for low brass
Billy Strayhorn
Lush Life, arrangement for brass sextet (Pete Smith)
Anthony Plog
Contrasts, for 5 trumpets
Joseph Haydn
Surprise Variations on a Theme of Haydn, arrangement for brass ensemble (Paul Haart)
The music
It is the great Giovanni Gabrieli who will logically open the fires of this festive concert for the brass. Kapellmeister of Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice, he used the architectural particularities of the place by installing the musicians in the two boxes for the choirs facing each other, thus creating a striking spatiality in his famous Canzone. Stereophony was therefore born around 1585! But there will be many other wonders and surprises during this morning with a transcription of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto and arrangements of works by William Byrd and Joseph Haydn. Jazz will not be outdone with the song Lush Life by African-American composer Billy Strayhorn, a standard that will be taken up by many musicians. After the Bruckner Etude by Enrique Crespo in homage to a composer who knew how to write so well for the brass, we will discover the most recent work of this program, Contrasts for 5 trumpets, composed in 2014 by the American composer Anthony Plog. An unusual program that speaks volumes about the curiosity and eclecticism of our musicians.