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- Brian Elias
Impromptu (2009)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Programme Note
Impromptu was written to honour the Endymion ensemble on its thirtieth birthday. I wrote the piece without any preparation or advance planning, allowing the music itself to lead me and to dictate its form, hence the title. Although the process of composition was extemporaneous, the piece turns out to fall into a simple binary form, in which the first section is elaborated upon and slightly extended in the second. The flute and clarinet play mostly together, performing variants of the same material, often in close rhythmic parallel, while the harp has an independent role in addition to commenting and accompanying.
Brian Elias, March 2009
Brian Elias, March 2009
Media
Brian Elias; Impromptu
Scores
Score Sample
Reviews
There is something quirkily arcadian about the instrumental palette; and yet while the clarinet and flute are constantly engaged in a twittering birdsong, the bright, manic ostinati that pervade the harp part keepthe whole thing from sounding a little too 'cute.'
8th June 2009
Discography
Sound Census
- LabelNMC
- Catalogue NumberD160
- ConductorQuentin Poole
- EnsembleEndymion
- Released1st March 2010