• Karel Husa
  • Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (1987)

  • Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
  • 0000/0300/timp.2perc/str
  • Organ
  • 22 min

Programme Note

The Concerto for Organ and Orchestra by Karel Husa was commissioned by Dorothy Humel Hovorka for the Michelson-Morley Centennial Celebration. It was premiered by the Cleveland Institute of Music Chamber Orchestra on October 28, 1987.

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Reviews

[The “Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble”] stressed overlapping, stacked tones; close (seemingly quartet) tones obtained through sliding and lipping wind sounds); driving rhythms; sustained, supporting tonalities by winds as a background for percussion. It was a fascinating and captivating work, not only from the physical rhythmic involvement, but also from beautiful use of the melodious qualities of percussion instruments. The second movement was a symphony of jungle sounds – soft flute drum and marimba, then a fantastic crescendo by all instruments, tympani and chimes joining in, followed by a sudden decrescendo. Lovely, effective, exciting.
St. Petersburg Times
25th May 1972